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 -...
Alan Milburn’s Young People and Work interim report should land as a national alarm bell. Nearly one million young people are now not in education,...
It’s all about the learner, and building a culture of lifelong learning.
An award-winning filmmaker who just screened his first feature film to a sold-out premiere, is warning young people against pursuing dead-end degrees after his own…
Despite a challenging economic outlook and a cost-of-living crisis, young Londoners are relatively upbeat about their future career prospects. That’s according to a new survey…
8% of students in Wales have experienced homelessness during the cost-of-living crisis, according to a new National Union of Students Wales (NUS Wales) survey. The…
Unite Students, the UK’s largest provider of student accommodation, has begun work to improve and extend its Rushford Court property in Durham, in partnership with…
A postgraduate student at Stirling University was detained by the UK Home Office in an immigration raid and has been held at Dungavel for 7…
Back in 2011, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) website crashed at the most pivotal moment as students frantically searched for places in Clearing.…
The NSS gathers students’ opinions on the quality of their courses which helps to: Every university in the UK takes part in the NSS, as…
South Eastern Regional College Level 3 Technical Diploma in Art and Design student Samantha Brown is gearing up to show off her business skills in…
A Ballynahinch mother of four who graduated this summer with a first in BSc in Social Policy and Sociology from Queen’s University Belfast is keen…
64 per cent of FinTechs face dissatisfied graduates quitting their grad schemes, according to research from strategic talent solutions partner FDM Group. 35 per cent…
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