College staff risk a real-terms pay cut next year unless ministers provide significant funding, college leaders and unions have warned in a joint letter.

Conflicting accounts continue to emerge about whether City & Guilds Foundation trustees knew large bonuses were paid to senior executives after the sale of their awarding business.

The Turing scheme’s budget will remain unchanged at £78 million for its final year despite more ‘disadvantaged’ students becoming eligible for extra support.

Union officials have called off a workforce redundancy dispute with City & Guilds bosses that threatened to boil over into legal and industrial action.

City & Guilds Foundation has agreed to hold an independent inquiry into the controversial sale of its City & Guilds awarding business.

Labour markets across OECD countries are undergoing rapid transformation, widening the gap between the skills employers need and those that formal education systems alone can provide.