Five vice-chancellors in Victoria paid more than $1m in 2024, prompting claims of ‘largesse’
by Caitlin Cassidy Education reporter from World news | The Guardian on (#6X8E4)
Union says universities blaming budget deficits for job cuts while pushing executive salaries into the stratosphere'
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Just three of Victoria's vice-chancellors took pay cuts last year despite growing outside pressure to address broken" university governance and accusations of executive largesse".
The universities' latest annual reports, tabled in state parliament on Tuesday, showed six of Victoria's nine vice-chancellors increased their pay or left it unchanged last year compared with 2023.
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