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...
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The Cure for Policy Amnesia? Edge’s Learning from the Past project aims to do exactly what it says on the tin, learn from past experiences.…
This week in Catch22Minutes, @Catch22’s new podcast series looking at employability issues, they look at how sustainable jobs can be a form of diversion for young…
#AcademicIntegrity @podcastTheScore – Journalist Kathryn Baron hosts the inaugural 6-part series on academic integrity and the growing problem of cheating by college students and in…
Adult education budget, the apprenticeship conference and much more including a conversation with Lindsay McCurdy The FE Podcast SAFARAZ Ali is becoming one of the…
In episode 2 of the #VocTechFutures livestream, Ufi’s Patrick Dunn explored how VocTech is being used to provide accessible, personalised and high-quality learning in the prison sector. As part of the session we heard from…
#FutureOfAssessment – Accessibility and Inclusion livestream Episode 2. This episode was hosted by Gavin O’Meara and Jessica Blakey (Assessment Design Manager, NCFE), we invited Gem Turner…
#AntiRacismInAction: Employers and Employment with Grace Haynes, Amarjit Dhillon and Robin Ghurbhurun Episode 2 of 9 BFELG Livestreams #AntiRacismInAction – Making the Most of an Ethnically Diverse…
@Ofstednews – Ofsted Talks hosts, Chris Jones and Anna Trethewey talk to Ofsted’s Deputy Director Paul Joyce, Head of Policy at the Prisoners Education Trust,…
@KaplanUK’s Learn Better Podcast is a brand new series that covers all of the hot topics within and around the field of accountancy and higher…
Green Industries Wales, the independent collaboration and discovery network for the green economy in Wales, recently announced its inaugural Hybrid Skills Council meeting, bringing together…
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