Britain’s NEET crisis is no longer a warning sign; it is a structural failure. The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures (Jan-March 2026) estimate...
Across further and higher education, widening participation has become one of the defining policy priorities of the past two decades. Institutions have rightly focused on...
Young people today are entering a world in upheaval. Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, record-breaking temperatures, and the accelerating rise of AI is...
According to the latest ONS labour market data, youth unemployment has hit 14.7%. That means one in seven young people looking for work can't find...
I was delighted to work with colleagues at FE News’ Breaking Barriers event on a construction job. We worked to take apart the youth employment...
For too long, the national conversation around success has treated university as the default route into a professional career. Yet across the UK, thousands of...
At the start of this month, leaders from across government, further education, skills, employability and employer groups gathered for the Breaking Barriers Collective, hosted by...
There is a particular kind of honesty that emerges when a room full of practitioners, advocates and leaders agrees to stop being polite about a...
The publication of the Milburn interim review on young people and work arrives at an important moment for England’s education, employment and skills system. With...
Something struck me recently at the Breaking Barriers / NEET Collective, held in central London on 2nd June 2026 - a FE News and Edge...
A new website launched today by the Office for Students is designed to help learners, teachers and advisers find activities, advice and information on the…
The University of Birmingham and Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) have opened applications for their new Joint Masters programmes in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence…
The UK’s best electrical students and apprentices from across the UK competed in qualifying heats at Barking & Dagenham College recently. SkillELECTRIC is the search…
Level 2 and Level 3 students studying Professional Cookery at South West College have just returned from an exciting two-week Erasmus+ programme in the Icelandic…
City Lit, the renowned adult education provider, is pleased to announce the addition of three new City Lit Fellows for 2023. These individuals have demonstrated…
Ministers must take urgent action to combat school absence rates after new official figures were released showing that school absence remains at crisis levels. In…
Beauty therapy, hairdressing, barbering and make-up artistry students at North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College (NWSLC) have swept the board at the finals of a…
A pair of budding chefs from Coleg Llandrillo have qualified for the grand final of one of the UK’s most prestigious cooking competitions. Foundation Degree…
Nurseries, schools and colleges with the least access to nature are set to receive a funding boost that will help them develop the biodiversity of…
Genius Group has announced it is partnering with two organisations, Rethink Academy and Abundance Global, to offer start-up and scale-up business coaching and mentoring programmes…
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