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Who is City & Guilds? City & Guilds is one of the world’s leading vocational awarding bodies. Founded in the City of London in 1878, we now qualify around 1.8 million learners in 80 countries every year. We offer qualifications in almost every industry area and at all levels. Centers that provide our qualifications include colleges, schools, training providers, and employers.
Why City & Guilds? C&G can offer you:
- an unrivaled range of qualifications, in almost all industry areas.
- 140 years experience of working with employers
- an established, internationally recognised name, working in 80 countries
- a global benchmark for vocational excellence
- integrity and quality of assessment.
C&G can offer your learners:
Progression – Our qualifications offer a clear progression path for learners. Because we offer qualifications to level 8, learners can use City & Guilds to take them from entry-level to the highest standards of professional achievement.
Portability – Our qualifications act as a benchmark for skills globally and are widely recognised and well-respected, which means that wherever learners travel, they can use their City & Guilds certificate to find work.
Aspirations – Every learner has hopes and dreams. City & Guilds qualifications give people the skills that will equip them to reach their goals – whether that's getting a job, winning a promotion, or growing their own business.
Recognition – Our qualifications are recognised throughout the world, by educational institutions, professional bodies, and employer associations, which means that a City & Guilds certificate can really open doors.
Employability – Because they’re developed with the help of industry experts and are workplace-relevant, City & Guilds qualifications equip people for doing a real job – benefiting them and their employer.
City & Guilds and WorldSkills:
WorldSkills is the highlight of the international skills calendar and has, for the last 50 years, represented the ultimate in vocational excellence. Every two years, hundreds of highly skilled young people from across the world gather to compete, testing their ability in a wide variety of trades and specialisms – from mechatronics and web design to floristry and jewellery, plumbing and bricklaying to hairdressing and confectionery.
At WorldSkills 2007, held in Shizuoka, Japan, we sponsored the UK team and a competitor in the New Zealand team with City & Guilds Diplomas in Pastry, Food Preparation, and Cookery. City & Guilds is a premier sponsor of WorldSkills 2011, to be held in London. Our aim for the event is to bring together competitors from across the world who have City & Guilds qualifications.
Helping people, organisations and economies develop their skills for growth:
For over 140 years we have worked with people, organisations and economies to help them identify and develop the skills they need to thrive. We understand the life changing link between skills development, social mobility, prosperity and success.
We partner with our customers to deliver work-based learning programmes that build competency, to support better prospects for people, organisations and wider society. We create flexible learning pathways that support lifelong employability, because we believe that people deserve the opportunity to (re)train and (re)learn again and again – gaining new skills at every stage of life, regardless of where they start.
We’re a Royal Chartered Institute and a registered charity, everything we do is charitable. We invest our surplus into expanding and enhancing our solutions across all of our brands, to meet the changing needs of organisations and industries. And through our City & Guilds Foundation we amplify our purpose by focusing on high impact social investment, recognition and advocacy programmes which remove barriers to getting a job, celebrate best practice on the job and advocate for jobs of the future.
Ofqual = Office of Qualifications and Examination Assessment
RQF = Regulated Qualifications Framework
