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...
Recently, I visited PET-Xi in Coventry, and I left with a feeling I know all too well: admiration, frustration and a deep sense of déjà...
Practitioners, leaders, researchers and advocates gathered in London to do something the sector urgently needed: not just name the problem, but co-design the route out...
There’s a gulf between where many NEET young people are and where employers need them to be so that they can thrive in a job. The UK must find ways to bridge that gulf -...
It’s all about the learner, and building a culture of lifelong learning.
A group of students joined forces with the Royal British Legion this month to help raise over £10,880 for the Poppy Appeal – making it the…
OVER 100 pupils aged between 16-18 from Scottish schools played the part of politicians, journalists, and lobbyists to debate on the climate crisis. They were…
Head to Palace Court on Buckwell Street to buy original art and support local students aged 16 to 19. Pre-Degree students from Arts University Plymouth’s…
NCG and Activate Learning are partnering with PsycApps Ltd to conduct one of the largest college-based Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) using cutting-edge mobile mental health…
University Centre Weston (UCW) student, Kam, was successfully named the Association of College’s (AoC) Higher Education Student of the Year winner this week, in front…
Katherine Howard, Smoothwall’s Head of Education and Wellbeing, talks about why school communities must work together to create a safer internet and how we can…
Sommet Education, the world’s leading group of hospitality management schools, and its flagship institution Les Roches, have received accolades in the Hospitality ON Awards. For…
Responding to the first report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Young Carers and Young Adult Carers, Margaret Mulholland, SEND and Inclusion Specialist at…
A Cheshire school assistant headteacher today encouraged businesses to implement “easy wins” at the application and interview stage to ensure school leavers with social, emotional,…
A South Wales entrepreneur has chosen to put his legal skills to good use with the launch of a new business that will help individuals…
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