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.
Coleg Menai student Cian Green earned bronze in the British Weightlifting Championships at the weekend to stay on course for the Commonwealth Games. Cian finished…
Up to 34% of A-level students are considering living at home if they get into their preferred university next week. New data from a major…
New analysis by the Education Policy Institute (EPI), reveals that growing levels of pupil absence in the wake of the pandemic are being felt most…
The Open University (the OU) has commissioned a new survey of 18–19-year-olds in England which shows that nearly 1 in 2 (49%) have reconsidered going…
Don’t panic, and take time to think, and chat, through all your options, is the advice from the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) to any students…
With A-level results day just around the corner, the University of Chester is all set to help students make the most of Clearing. The Clearing…
Poll finds students ambivalent to PM’s plans to crack down on ‘low-value’ courses, but concerned that Government is not sufficiently focussed on the real issues.…
Three in four (74%) university students have struggled with their monthly rent repayments in the last 12 months[1], as the UK’s cost of living crisis…
SERC Travel and Tourism students recently touched down in Northern Ireland after traveling to Tenerife to study a digital marketing qualification, fully funded by the…
In a recent study by Forbes Advisor, the financial guidance and price comparison platform, students and graduates were asked about the debt they accumulated while…
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