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UNCOVERED: City guilds org - Caught on Camera

City & Guilds scraps mass redundancies and offshoring UK jobs to Greece

PeopleCert had been planning to cut about 400 jobs in £22m savings drive at training body it bought last year

The Guardian - UK · Jun 18

City & Guilds bosses awarded themselves millions in bonuses, investigation finds

Report finds Kirstie Donnelly and Abid Ismail paid bonuses ‘without authorisation or knowledge’ of superiors

The Guardian - UK · Jun 15

City & Guilds faces legal and industrial action over plans to cut hundreds of jobs

New crisis at former vocational charity involves alleged withholding of data and breaching redundancy laws

The Guardian - UK · Jun 3

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City & Guilds London Institute trustees accused of stalling inquiry into £166m sale

The board of the vocational charity has shown a ‘catastrophic failure of governance’, according to a member of the group’s council

The Guardian - UK · May 9

Fee hikes, big bonuses, then bosses exit: the curious case of City & Guilds privatisation

Sale of vocational training brand and million-pound executive pay deals now subject to Charity Commission inquiry

The Guardian - UK · Apr 19

City & Guilds ex-staff still left in the dark

Brief letters: Communication gap | Tom Jones syndrome | Frontline inaction | Gift from Suella Braverman | Tory defections

The Guardian - UK · Jan 27

The Guardian view on the City & Guilds privatisation: big bonuses cast a shadow over this deal

Editorial: Questions about the breakup of a venerable education charity, and who has benefited from it, need answers

The Guardian - UK · Jan 21

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New City & Guilds owners tripled bosses’ pay amid £22m cost-cutting drive

Total pay of the qualification body’s top six executives has risen by 240% to £6.2m since charity sold it

The Guardian - UK · Jan 20

Top two bosses at City & Guilds placed on leave after bonus scandal

Pair will be absent ‘for short period’ from vocational trainer, whose charity is under investigation by Charity Commission

The Guardian - UK · Jan 16

Charity watchdog opens inquiry into City & Guilds’ sale of business arm

Bosses at body that trained chef Jamie Oliver were awarded million-pound bonuses after sale to private firm

The Guardian - UK · Jan 9

City & Guilds cuts will impact future of vocational training

Letter: Michael Robinson says the planned changes to the qualifications body will erode our capacity to train skilled workers when our country needs them most

The Guardian - UK · Dec 22, 2025

Bosses at City & Guilds handed million-pound bonuses after training firm is privatised

Exclusive: Executives at body that trained chef Jamie Oliver awarded pay rises and bonuses after sale to private firm – as hundreds of jobs may be offshored

The Guardian - UK · Dec 22, 2025

City & Guilds to shrink UK workforce amid £22m cost-cutting drive

Training and qualifications body, acquired by private Greek firm in October, to become ‘leaner organisation’

The Guardian - UK · Dec 14, 2025

Skills shortage jeopardising pledge to build 1.5 million homes, report warns

A critical shortage of skilled workers is jeopardising the Government’s pledge to build 1.5 million new homes by 2029, according to research.

Evening Standard · Jul 3, 2025

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The Independent UK · Jul 2, 2025

Warning issued to government over building 1.5 million homes pledge

The Labour government made building 1.5 million new homes by 2029 one of its key policies

The Guardian - UK · Apr 19, 2024

Let’s end the annual torture of GCSE resits – and give students qualifications they’ll actually use

Compulsory maths and English retakes speak of a system that ignores pupils’ real talents. But hope is on the horizon, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Glasgow Live · Jul 28, 2022

Drivers warned as electric car charger installations may end up in 'disaster'

With EV chargers in being installed homes, on streets and in commercial locations, industry experts are warning the skills shortage could have potentially “disastrous consequences”.

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