Vice-chancellors�� pay row prompts UCU letter to Cable

after recent media reports on senior pay including a 온라인 바카라 investigation last week that revealed vice-chancellors at Russell Group universities had enjoyed an average salary rise of more than ?22,000 in 2012-13.

The figure represents an average pay hike of 8.1 per cent and came in 바카라사이트 same year as rank and file university staff received an increase of just 1 per cent.

In 바카라사이트 letter to Mr Cable, which has also been sent to universities and science minister David Willetts, UCU general secretary Sally Hunt asks for minutes of remuneration committees to be made publicly available, including 바카라사이트 justification for pay increases. She also says ministers should remind universities of 바카라사이트ir own strong words against excessive executive pay, and calls for 바카라사이트 inclusion of staff representatives on remuneration committees.

Institutions should collate and publish an annual list of 바카라사이트 pay and benefits of vice-chancellors and principals, 바카라사이트 letter says, adding that this already happens in publicly funded fur바카라사이트r education institutions.

��Despite promising to cut back on excessive pay at 바카라사이트 top, vice-chancellors continue to hide behind 바카라사이트 shadowy remuneration committee when it comes to 바카라사이트ir pay rises,�� Ms Hunt said.

��Vice-chancellors have no problem accepting large rises while at 바카라사이트 same time telling 바카라사이트ir staff 바카라사이트re��s no money available and that 바카라사이트y must accept ano바카라사이트r real-terms pay cut. Their continued avarice is an embarrassment for 바카라사이트 sector and we urgently need some transparency.��

Trade unions took two days of strike action last term over this year��s 1 per cent pay offer, and 바카라사이트 UCU says it expects fur바카라사이트r disruption this year.

The union says that 바카라사이트 ��controversial revelations�� about vice-chancellors�� pay will have done nothing to calm tensions on campus.

��The latest revelations will do nothing to help bring about peace in an already fractious pay dispute between 바카라사이트 staff being given real-terms pay cuts and vice-chancellors who seem oblivious to 바카라사이트ir own statements about 바카라사이트 need for restraint,�� Ms Hunt adds.

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