BOSSES at an Oxfordshire college have told lecturers that they can use students’ food banks to help them through the cost-of-living crisis – having denied them a decent pay rise.

The University and College Union (UCU) says Abingdon and Witney College “granted its staff access” to the food banks in an email. The staff had asked for a 10 per cent pay rise.

Now they are balloting on industrial action, along with staff at 183 colleges across England.