3+ week, 3+ day ago   (277+ words) WION UK jobs market cools as AI creates new roles Britain’s jobs market is showing two very different trends at once. On one side, the overall labour market is cooling, companies are cutting payrolls, vacancies are falling and wage growth…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (782+ words) LBC's Tom Swarbrick has said that university is not the life-changing experience it once was You can tell he’s an English graduate. There was the Prime Minister quoting Tony Harrison’s poem “V” in an interview the other day – predictably, perhaps,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (690+ words) Amid an overall contraction in the UK job market, demand for AI-skilled professionals has reached a record high. Since the beginning of 2026, the number of job vacancies in the country has decreased by 11%, while the share of listings mentioning artificial…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (627+ words) PM’s vocational model also takes inspiration from former education secretary Kenneth Baker’s vision Andy Burnham’s plans to put academic and technical education routes on an equal footing in England have been welcomed by many, but none were more enthusiastic than…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (567+ words) Andy Burnham’s announcements on technical education are welcome, but they will be meaningless if young people have no jobs to move into. The Budget will be the real test of how he plans to grow the economy, says Georgiana Bristol…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (24+ words) The Guardian Ella Baron on Andy Burnham’s plans for youth employment – cartoon...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (322+ words) Image: Number 10 [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], via Flickr UCU and UUK respond to government plans for new vocational education pathways Andy Burnham’s plan to give secondary school students more access to vocational education at age 14 must not result in reduced government investment…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (907+ words) The new Prime Minister said he wants there to be “no dead ends” for young people coming out of education, and for technical pathways to be put on an equal footing with traditional academic routes. From Year 10, pupils will be…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (339+ words) (Image: Anadolu, Anadolu via Getty Images) Andy Burnham has been urged to slash employment taxes for under-25s in a bid to address the country's unemployment crisis. Mr Burnham, the new Labour Party Prime Minister, has been advised that firms should…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (462+ words) The latest ONS figures put the number at 1,012,000, up 89,000 in a year, with 13.5 per cent of all 16 to 24 year olds now NEET. As Mayor of Greater Manchester you showed you understand this agenda, championing technical education and real pathways into…...