It’s been a couple of weeks since the Milburn report was published, and I like everyone have been digesting the report and the analysis. Like a well-trained student,...
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...
Barnsley College holds Wellbeing Week to support students’ mental health and wellbeing Students and apprentices at Barnsley College had the opportunity to take part in…
Burton and South Derbyshire College (BSDC) has officially announced the name for an Esports Team which will form part of its new Esports Management course.…
Scotland rugby captain Jamie Ritchie paid a visit to St John’s Academy in Perth, inspiring pupils as part of his role as ambassador for the…
LearnSci is one of just 47 organisations nationally to be recognised with a prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise in the innovation category. Announced today (Friday…
Ada, the National College for Digital Skills, has been honoured with the first ever King’s Award for Enterprise for Promoting Opportunity (through social mobility). Ada,…
AQA, the education charity and most-chosen awarding body for academic qualifications, is calling on politicians across the house to give project qualifications a greater role…
In the most recent year (2022–23), school spending per pupil in Scotland was over £8,500. This is over 18% or £1,300 higher than the level…
Department for Education has announced a reform to level 2 qualifications. Sector Response Catherine Sezen, Education Director at the Association of Colleges said: “It is…
Having been shortlisted as a finalist in the Women in Agriculture category of the 2023 Women Changing the World awards, Royal Agricultural University (RAU) lecturer…
Yesterday in Edinburgh, the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) and the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh signed a memorandum of understanding on…
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