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.
The APPG for Students today publishes the second report of its inquiry launched in January into the financial position of further education students, building on…
Attracting more females into engineering is the mission for a Black Country electrical engineer that has won a clutch of awards in the early part…
Gen Z students are calling the education system into question by claiming that it doesn’t cater to everyone, according to new research. Surveyed students aged…
Key findings of HEPI’s Student Academic Experience Survey in 2023: – more students are struggling with the cost of living and feel lonely – student wellbeing has improved but remains worse…
Returning to education after a break of almost 35 years can be challenging but, for County Antrim man, Paul Rodgers, it has not only been…
The final report of the Independent Review of Qualifications and Assessment was published yesterday 22nd June. The report, authored by Professor Louise Hayward, sets out…
Researchers at Wrexham Glyndwr University (WGU) have been working on a study to determine the impact that spending time with therapy dogs can have on…
On Wednesday 21 June, the first day of Virtual College Expo 2023, Darren McGarvey was inducted into the College Development Network (CDN) College Hall of…
Representatives of the world’s leading companies have visited Les Roches Marbella, one of the top four hotel management training schools globally, to interview their students…
London Learning Consortium (LLC) is a training provider in the heart of Croydon. It is rated ‘good’ by Ofsted and opportunities surround it. This month,…
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