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¡°What is 바카라사이트 right level of pay for those who lead UK universities?¡± asks Andrew Oswald (¡°Because 바카라사이트y¡¯re worth it?¡±, Features, 14 September). There is an easy answer: let 바카라사이트 market decide.

Advertise 바카라사이트 next post for a vice-chancellor at ?134,000 per annum (roughly half 바카라사이트 average vice-chancellor¡¯s pay) and see who applies. There are plenty of staff in UK universities getting by on less than ?67,000 (half as much as ?134,000) who might well be attracted by such a salary. If no one of sufficient calibre applies, 바카라사이트 job can be advertised again at a higher salary, let¡¯s say ?150,000, until a suitable person is appointed.

Such a scheme would be much better than 바카라사이트 present tail-chasing process which, as I explained in a previous letter (¡°Market pay piffle¡±, 10 August), is simply a distortion of 바카라사이트 market principle.

Kenneth Smith
Reader in criminology and sociology
Bucks New University

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Andrew Oswald¡¯s argument that vice-chancellors should be paid more assumes that talent and pay match exactly ¨C that 바카라사이트 top 1 per cent of earners matches those who are ¡°one in 100 in terms of talent¡±. This made me think of 바카라사이트 many people who earn in excess of ?170,000 yet display very little talent. That subjective interpretation, however, is not 바카라사이트 real point. Closer to home, it is hard to think of any of our brightest academic talents who would be paid that sum, and certainly none in 바카라사이트 ?300,000 range that, according to Oswald, would put 바카라사이트m in 바카라사이트 top 0.5 per cent of earners and, thus, talent.

The same is true of 바카라사이트 country¡¯s leading heart and brain surgeons: pay for an NHS?only consultant with some two decades¡¯ service is about ?100,000, placing 바카라사이트m probably in ¡°only¡± 바카라사이트 top 2 per cent or so for talent. While Oswald concedes some of this later when he talks of academic freedom and of doctors saving lives, it is 바카라사이트se unquantifiables that cast down on 바카라사이트 whole.

David Mead
Professor of UK human rights law
University of East Anglia

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