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,...
Mental health and wellbeing in the workplace, classroom and in life!
With the number of black college CEOs falling nationwide, Robin Landman OBE, director of Black Leadership Group, explains why we need a roadmap for ethnic…
A Wolverhampton-based training specialist that thrives on getting disadvantaged people back into employment has thrown its support behind The Way Youth Zone. National Infrastructure Solutions…
Half of young people are changing careers as ‘money’ overtakes mental health as their biggest concern, according to an annual survey by Prospects at Jisc,…
A dysregulated autonomic nervous system, specifically an overactive sympathetic nervous system, can be challenging to manage, but there are several approaches that may provide support…
In this article, Deborah Jenkins discusses the need to go beyond safeguarding in order to reduce sexual harm in the further education (FE) sector. Deborah…
In March’s budget, chancellor Jeremy Hunt revealed plans to boost funding for ‘returnerships’ – fast-track apprenticeships targeted towards the Over 50s. The scheme is designed…
Changing mindsets and lives, one-day accessibility competition generated more than 89,000 files fixed Anthology, a leading provider of education solutions that support the entire learner…
April marked Stress Awareness Month, a time where companies and individuals are encouraged to reflect on the areas of stress, how they can reduce undue…
In my previous article on end-point assessment, I touched on the lack of direct reference to safeguarding in the ESFA conditions for EpAOs, the DQB…
A garden designed to explore mental health and wellbeing at this year’s RHS Flower Show Tatton Park is appealing for sponsors. Garden designer Carolyn Hardern…
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