“What will it take for the Scottish government to realise that it doesn’t matter how many reports they commission into education and skills … if they are not prepared to fundamentally change the way that further education is funded in Scotland?   

“When will they realise that it doesn’t matter if they talk about wanting to deliver fair work across our public sector if they are happy to oversee public money going into a sector where the workers have been left without a decent pay rise since 2022?

“It is an absolute scandal, that we have a situation where the Scottish government and Colleges Scotland plead poverty, and talk about cuts to badly needed staff, when those at the top of our FE institutions, are infamous for their eye-watering salaries. 

“This is morally wrong, this is an abuse of public funding, and it is profiteering of the worst kind.”