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...
Supported by the Department for the Economy, this academy delivered in partnership with the South West College (SWC), Dungannon campus will provide 12 individuals with essential…
CONSTRUCTION work has officially got under way on a brand new £12m centre for leading workforce training provider TTE Technical, part of the Middlesbrough College…
Staff at Barnet and Southgate College will strike for three days from Friday 19 May in a long-running pay dispute, announced the University and College…
Arts University Plymouth students Hannah Harvey and Liam Olczyk designed and produced a recipe booklet for users of the charity Two students from Arts University…
An 18-year-old who left his native Kenya to study in the UK just two years ago, has been described as ‘one to watch’ after winning…
South West College has launched a brand new OCN NI Level 2 Retrofit Skills for Building Fabric and Services course delivered fully online. The first…
It turned out to be a successful day for the @BordersCollege Greenpower teams, who recently travelled to East Fortune race track to take part in…
Educating the educators is the ethos of a new course run for health and social care professionals by the University of Winchester. On Wednesday the…
Staff at Burton and South Derbyshire College (BSDC) were recently visited by representatives from HOGENT and Erasmus University College Brussels (EhB) from Belgium to share best…
Alton College students were recently offered a unique and eye-opening opportunity to participate in a 350+NHS Careers pilot project. The project named ‘Spotlight Day’, was…
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