We're very pleased to see the launch of our new campaign #ApprenticeshipsWork last week getting some really positive coverage, including this piece from @personneltoday.bsky.social - www.personneltoday.com/hr/flawed-sy...

Read our full response to the Education Committee’s FE & Skills report here: www.edge.co.uk/news-and-eve...

Our response to the Education Committee's recommendations below.

Digital badges are already helping learners and workers make their skills visible. Edge Trustee and @ufitrust.bsky.social CEO Rebecca Garrod Waters explains - www.edge.co.uk/news-and-eve...

💡 How can oracy support children with DLD? Join Voice 21 & NAPLIC on 14th October for practical strategies to include learners with Developmental Language Disorder. Sign up for FREE below 👇 oracyoctober.voice21.org/session-regi...

We’re proud to support @edgeuk.bsky.social’s #ApprenticeshipsWork campaign to boost opportunities for young people in small businesses. SMEs need a simpler, fairer system. https://www.engineeringuk.com/latest-news/news-articles/new-campaign-to-unlock-apprenticeships-in-small-businesses/

Our new campaign, #ApprenticeshipsWork launched last week, based on two new policy reports, "Chaos to Coordination" and "Agents of Change". edge.co.uk/policy/repor... Edge Executive Director Oliver Newton introduces Apprenticeships Work here: vimeo.com/1119033931

We're very pleased to see the launch of our new campaign #ApprenticeshipsWork yesterday getting some really positive coverage, including this piece by our CEO Alice Gardner feweek.co.uk/landing-appr... @edgeceo.bsky.social

We're very pleased to see the launch of our new campaign #ApprenticeshipsWork yesterday getting some really positive coverage, including this piece by our Chief Exec Alice Gardner in labourlist.org/2025/09/appr...

We're very pleased to see the launch of our new campaign #ApprenticeshipsWork yesterday getting some really positive coverage, including this from @fenews.bsky.social www.fenews.co.uk/skills/new-r...

'Finding opportunities is extraordinarily difficult' Alice Gardner, @edgeuk.bsky.social highlights new research around why the number of apprenticeships for under-19s is falling and what can be done about it

Our new campaign, #ApprenticeshipsWork launched today, based on two new policy reports, "Chaos to Coordination" and "Agents of Change". www.edge.co.uk/policy/repor... Edge Executive Director Oliver Newton introduces Apprenticeships Work here: vimeo.com/1119033931?s...

Really great to see such solid support for #ApprenticeshipsWork from Amazing Apprenticeships and Anna Morrison CBE. Amazing Apprenticeships are one of our campaign partners and we're so pleased they decide to take part. www.amazingapprenticeships.com/apprenticesh...

The second of two new reports, published today by Edge, is "Agents of Change" www.edge.co.uk/policy/repor... which explores the role of brokerage services in helping SMEs navigate the apprenticeship system. / Senior Policy Advisor, Sorah Gluck explains... vimeo.com/1118077044

Edge published two new reports today and launched "Apprenticeships Work". The campaign is based on the results of the reports. Our Senior Policy Advisor, Sorah Gluck introduces the first report www.edge.co.uk/policy/repor... vimeo.com/1118079999?s...

But @edgeuk.bsky.social are articulating, rightly, some steps that need to be taken to address these challenges. Not least support for SMEs in a complex process of #Apprenticeships, and also much clearer info for potential apprentices on opportunities. The reports are definitely worth a read.

Really excellent campaign by @edgeuk.bsky.social and two reports launched today around challenges and proposed solutions to engage more SMEs in #Apprenticeships 1) Moving from chaos to coordination and 2) Agents of change. Launched at an excellent webinar this morning. www.edge.co.uk/policy/repor...

Our new campaign, #ApprenticeshipsWork launches in at 10.00am in a bid to boost the number of apprenticeships for young people in small and medium-sized enterprises...

Tomorrow, we launch #ApprenticeshipsWork a new campaign to increase apprenticeship opportunities in small businesses. Keep checking our socials for more details. 👀 Join us at our Apprenticeship Seminar tomorrow - edge.co.uk/news-and-eve... #apprenticeships #SMEs

Thank you Youth Employment UK for the important work you put into the “#YouthVoiceCensus Getting responses from over 8,000 young people is an incredible achievement. 👏https://www.youthemployment.org.uk/youth-voice-census/results/

Writing for @edgeuk.bsky.social, our CEO Rebecca Garrod-Waters explores how (and why) digital badges play a fundamental role in building a more responsive, inclusive skills system Read the full article: bit.ly/4n5rIKc Save your space & join us on 13th October: bit.ly/4goNzd1

Edge Director of Comms, Susan Higgins is getting ready for the launch of Youth Voice Census 2025 at Portcullis House. @edcommspr.bsky.social

Edge is launching a major new campaign this Thursday, called “Apprenticeships Work”. It has a simple goal - to encourage more small businesses to take on apprentices. Join us for our launch online - there are just a few places left.... www.edge.co.uk/news-and-eve...

An excellent assessment of the value of apprenticeships and how skills training can go some way towards solving the ongoing problem of staff and skills shortages. This aligns with Edge thinking (and mentions us) www.businessage.com/post/5-ways-...

This Thursday we are launching a new campaign on Apprenticeships and small businesses. Keep checking our socials for more details. 👀 Join us at our Apprenticeship Seminar this Thursday - www.edge.co.uk/news-and-eve... #apprenticeships #SMEs

Edge is once again very pleased to be sponsoring the Virtual Island Summit in its seventh year. Our Executive Director, Olly Newton is moderating the “Island Education Going Digital” session. You can register for the summit here: www.islandinnovation.co/events/virtu...

You have TWO days to finish off your application for the Association of Colleges Beacon Awards 2025/26. Only TWO days - applications close on Wednesday 10 September so add your final touches as quick as you can! www.aoc.co.uk/awards/beaco... @aoc-info.bsky.social

Following last week’s reshuffle, Edge Chief Executive Alice Gardner responds..

We are delighted to be the Media Sponsor for the Green Mindset Collective! 50 leaders will be working together to create the sector's sustainability blueprint! Check out the event here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/green-mind...

‼️Closing date this Wednesday 10th September 👇

Join us for our webinar Apprenticeships Work. How to engage more small businesses and young people later this month. Register here: www.edge.co.uk/news-and-eve...

Less than a week to get your application in for the @aoc-info.bsky.social Beacon Awards 2025/26. Edge are sponsoring the award for Excellence in Real World Learning. Applications close on 10 September, so hurry now. www.aoc.co.uk/awards/beaco...

We've been filming at Edge today, making some short films for a new campaign that's on the way in a few weeks time. Keep an eye open here!

The deadline for applications to the 2025/26 ‪@aoc-info.bsky.social Beacon Awards is 10 September. Edge sponsor the Award for Excellence in Real World Learning and there are lots other important categories, so hurry, hurry with your applications! www.aoc.co.uk/awards/beaco...

10/12💡Join LabourList & @edgeuk.bsky.social as we explore how locally-led skills strategies can align with Labour’s Growth Mission, create opportunities for young people, – and what national policy can learn from them. Featuring @andrewpakes.bsky.social and @helenhayes.bsky.social.

he final part of our summer series "What's Next...?" is out now! It's an inspirational piece from an inspirational headteacher. Moray Dickson, from School 21 explains why it's okay not to have a plan... www.edge.co.uk/news-and-eve...

How can we encourage more small businesses and young people to get involved in apprenticeships? Find out at an Edge webinar on 18 September, exploring options for improving the apprenticeship application and advertising system. www.edge.co.uk/news-and-eve...

Exam results delivered today matter, of course they do. But, as Edge Foundation Chief Executive Alice Gardner reminds us, they are far from the whole story. In fact, they capture only a fraction of the talents, skills, and potential that young people possess. www.edge.co.uk/news-and-eve...

Has someone you know just picked up their results? Do they know that a new apprenticeship scheme has just launched which aims to encourage more school leavers into the civil service? www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...

Now that GCSE results are upon us, Dr Kate Paradine, CEO ‪@voice21oracy.bsky.social, ‬ considers a few success factors for the future that every 16 year old should know. The latest in our "What's Next...?" series is all about your voice... www.edge.co.uk/news-and-eve...

Good luck to everyone currently discovering the results of their GCSEs and BTecs - we hope they get exactly the outcomes they hoped for! Whatever happens, let's celebrate the many pathways, vocational, technical and academic that young people can follow from here. www.edge.co.uk/news-and-eve...

The latest piece in our summer series "What's Next...?" is out today. Charlie Rollason, Edge Trustee and Aftersales Training Business Development Manager at AGCO UK Ltd tells us how his apprenticeship shaped his career. www.edge.co.uk/news-and-eve...

Listen to Beatrice Barleon, Head of Public Affairs and Policy at @engineeringuk.com, reflect on what skills gaps in motorsports can tell us about skills shortages more broadly. ⬇️ And catch up on the full #EmpSkills25 breakfast session, led by @edgeuk.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtIN... 📺

More good news for T Levels and Level 3 VTQs today as "Almost 12,000 students received T Level results this year, up from just over 7,000 last year. Almost 240,000 certificates were awarded for those completing their Level 3 vocational and technical qualifications." www.fenews.co.uk/fe-voices/a-...

A Degree Apprenticeship is just one of the routes into training as an Allied Health Professional. Find out more from Ed Hughes, CEO of the Council of Deans of Health in the latest in our "What's Next...?" summer series. www.edge.co.uk/news-and-eve...

Good to see that T Levels continue to improve year-on-year. Congratulations to everyone receiving their results today feweek.co.uk/t-level-resu...

Lots of webinars and workshops with Amazing Apprenticeships on the way for teachers, careers advisers, parents and carers and aspiring apprentices with tips, advice, and information around apprenticeships and technical education. www.amazingapprenticeships.com/workshops-we... #ALevelResults

Congratulations to everyone getting their results today! University is a great option, but it isn't the only option. Take a look at the possibilities for what's next if University isn't for you. www.edge.co.uk/news-and-eve... #ALevelResults

It looks like it's going to be a bumper year for young people getting into universities of their choice - congratulations! There are plenty of other pathways to follow as well as Uni though... www.youthemployment.org.uk/careers-advi...

Good luck to everyone picking up their A-level, T-level and BTec results tomorrow! We hope you get exactly the results you want. www.edge.co.uk/news-and-eve...