‘Eye-watering’ salary rises for university chiefs cannot be justified, says report
A pay increase for university vice-chancellors of nearly 60% in the last two decades cannot be justified by their performance in the job, research suggests.
University heads have seen their salaries soar during recent years to an average of 260,000, with some receiving packages worth more than 400,000 a year. The salary levels have been criticised by lecturers' unions, the Commons public accounts committee and business secretary Vince Cable. Now a study by Brighton University, which looked at the remuneration between 1998 and 2009 of 193 vice-chancellors leading 95 UK institutions, has uncovered a real-term pay increase of 59%. On average, vice-chancellors received pay awards that were four times those of lecturers and the differential has widened over time.
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