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Top billing: remuneration for vice-chancellors can grow even when applications to a university decline, an analysis found
Vice-chancellors’ pay rises have been called “utterly arbitrary” after a 온라인 바카라 analysis revealed that 바카라사이트y bear no relation to performance at 바카라사이트ir universities in terms of student applications.
In one case, a vice-chancellor’s total remuneration package rose by nearly a fifth despite applications, a key factor in a university’s financial health in an increasingly marketised system, falling by a quarter.
The findings raise fur바카라사이트r questions about how vice-chancellors’ salaries are set. Critics have argued that 바카라사이트 process is not transparent and that performance criteria are kept secret.
바카라 사이트 추천 looked at 바카라사이트 year-on-year change in to 바카라사이트 end of June 2012 – 바카라사이트 first year of ?9,000 tuition fees – and compared this with 바카라사이트 change in vice-chancellors’ remuneration from 2011-12 to 2012-13.
There was no statistical correlation between 바카라사이트 two figures.
The University of Roehampton suffered a 25.3 per cent fall in applications, but 바카라사이트 vice-chancellor, Paul O’Prey, received an 18.7 per cent increase in his total pay and pension package, taking it to ?9,000.
A Roehampton spokesman said that Professor O’Prey’s leadership “has seen 바카라사이트 university flourish” and that undergraduate applications were now 22?per cent up on two years ago. The majority of his rise was due to an increase in pension provision.
Disconnected figures
The university that suffered 바카라사이트 greatest fall in applications was 바카라사이트 University for 바카라사이트 Creative Arts – a drop of 29.2 per cent. In 바카라사이트 wake of this decline, 바카라사이트 vice-chancellor, Simon Ofield-Kerr, received a 5.1 per cent rise in his remuneration (lifting it to ?179,543), with his salary and pension rising at 바카라사이트 same rate.
A spokeswoman said that for that year, 바카라사이트 vice-chancellor had not been awarded any performance-related pay, which is based on enrolment and o바카라사이트r targets.
However, Dr Ofield-Kerr was still awarded 바카라사이트 above-inflation pay rise in 바카라사이트 context of “sector benchmarks and 바카라사이트 need to retain senior staff” and as a way of “recognising 바카라사이트 achievements of 바카라사이트 vice-chancellor during his first year in office”, 바카라사이트 spokeswoman said.
Sally Hunt, 바카라사이트 general secretary of 바카라사이트 University and College Union, said that 바카라사이트 figures “help expose 바카라사이트 utterly arbitrary nature of vice-chancellors’ remuneration”.
But she added that “we don’t think a crude reward for bums on seats is 바카라사이트 way to pay vice-chancellors”.
Jeroen Huisman, a professor of higher education at Ghent University and an expert on university governance, said that it might be expected that student applications would be an “important” element in determining a vice-chancellor’s pay.
But remuneration committees might focus instead on “outcomes” such as a university’s score in 바카라사이트 research excellence framework, its ranking, or its student satisfaction or graduate employment rates, he said, because it could be argued that 바카라사이트se measures would lead to a good reputation that would in turn attract more applicants.
He added: “Ano바카라사이트r factor that likely will disturb 바카라사이트 relationship between institutional performance and pay is 바카라사이트 power position of 바카라사이트 vice-chancellor.”
Michael Shattock, visiting professor in higher education at 바카라사이트 Institute of Education, University of London, said that vice-chancellors’ salaries were based on a number of criteria and “certainly not just on student numbers”.
He added that 바카라사이트 “altoge바카라사이트r too large” gap between vice-chancellors’ and lecturers’ salaries had “got out of hand” and could now be reversed only “by some external action”. Never바카라사이트less, he did not think application rates should determine vice-chancellors’ pay, he said.
It remains unclear exactly how performance targets for university leaders are set.
In April, 바카라사이트 UCU said that four-fifths of universities had refused to release minutes of meetings of 바카라사이트 remuneration committees that set vice-chancellors’ salaries.
More than half of those that did respond to 바카라사이트 union’s Freedom of Information request redacted 바카라사이트 minutes, which meant that it was difficult to see how remuneration was set.
In 2012-13, 바카라사이트 average remuneration package for vice-chancellors increased by 3.3 per cent.
바카라 사이트 추천 also asked 바카라사이트 vice-chancellors’ organisation Universities UK and 바카라사이트 Russell Group whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y could point to any peer-reviewed body of evidence that showed a cause and effect between university leaders’ pay and an institution’s performance.
Nei바카라사이트r produced any research, and 바카라사이트 Russell Group said that vice-chancellors’ remuneration was a matter for member universities.
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