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,...
UK government and organisations are constantly discussing ongoing skills shortages and apprenticeships and employability, yet one of the biggest untapped resources that often gets overlooked...
The Level 4 AI and Automation Practitioner apprenticeship launched by Skills England has arrived at a difficult moment for the FE sector. The management apprenticeship...
The term NEET has long been used as shorthand for young people who are Not in Education, Employment or Training. It is often framed as...
New apprenticeship reforms could play an important role in improving diversity across the UK workforce, particularly as policymakers seek to widen access to skilled careers and address persistent barriers...
This article was written by Laura-Jane Rawlings MBE DL, CEO & Founder of Youth Employment UK. It explores the growing youth unemployment crisis in the...
Alan Milburn’s interim findings from his Independent Review, Young People and Work, published yesterday, warn of a growing generational fault line, with more than one...
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A UK study of over 48,000 applications to graduate schemes in the UK has found that there’s a 65% uplift in the number of women…
The past twelve months have seen an encouraging recovery for apprenticeships after the terrible impact that the pandemic’s lockdowns had on new starts on the…
New ONS ASHE figures reveal huge earnings slump since the financial crash Average worker would be £180 a week better off had pay increased at…
NEARLY TWO-THIRDS OF NEW CABINET ATTENDED INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS AND ALMOST HALF ATTENDED OXBRIDGE Rishi Sunak attended an independent school as did most of his cabinet.…
Intrusive thoughts, feelings of professional incompetency, and the inability to accept feedback, whether it be positive or negative. Do these sound familiar? There’s a good…
A new report by Labour’s council of skills advisers led by the former Education and Employment Secretary Lord David Blunkett has laid out recommendations for a “revolution”…
Statisticians count employment statuses in a short sequence. If you do one hour or more of paid work, you are ‘in employment’. If you’re not…
The crisis exists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born. Antonio Gramsci Whenever I encounter Gramsci’s definition…
Last month, we wrote to Kit Malthouse, Secretary of State for Education, to express our real concern at the lack of support that will be…
How DfE is procuring and working with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).Read More
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