Vice-chancellors see pay soar as funding crisis hits universities

By Jon Swaine, and Victoria Maw 800AM GMT thirteen Mar 2010

The vice-chancellors of all but 3 heading institutions perceived raises averaging 8.5 per cent last year, new sum gathered by The Daily show.

Combined with annual grant contributions of up to �63,000, the heads of the Russell Group of twenty tip investigate universities had normal sum compensate deals of �308,000 significantly higher than the Prime Ministers.

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The university chiefs, who are between the majority appropriate paid open zone workers, enjoyed improved raises than the normal FTSE 100 arch senior manager and some-more than 3 times the 2.6 per cent normal around Britain.

Prof John Hood, the vice-chancellor of Oxford University, was since a twenty-one per cent compensate increase, pulling his sum package to �327,000.

Sir Howard Newby, the vice-chancellor of Liverpool, has a compensate understanding value �386,000 some-more than twenty per cent higher than his predecessors the prior year.

Yet both their compensate deals were eclipsed by that of Prof Malcolm Grant, the Provost of University College, London (UCL), whose sum package amounted to �404,272.

The figures, that annoyed annoy between training and tyro groups, come after Lord Mandelson voiced �950 million of cuts to higher preparation budgets.

Lecturers, who were paid �46,251 on normal during the period, are confronting pursuit waste while students are fast marked down march places.

They are additionally scheming for a travel in price fees from their stream �3,145 limit. Lord Browne, the former arch senior manager of BP, is reviewing the fees complement and is being lobbied by a little vice-chancellors to concede US-style fees of �20,000 a year.

In further to their inexhaustible compensate deals, roughly all the university heads embrace free place to live and the make use of of a car, significantly shortening their costs of living.

Prof Peter Gregson, the vice-chancellor of Queens University Belfast, additionally has his �900-a-year subscription price for The Athenaeum Club in Londons Pall Mall paid for.

A orator pronounced "Membership provides a London bottom for Queens and entrance to low cost accommodation".

The sum were yesterday cursed by the leaders of tyro and techer groups.

Wes Streeting, the boss of the National Union of Students, pronounced "At a time when clamp chancellors are perfectionist a doubling of price fees, the actuality that they are giving themselves and alternative managers such outrageous compensate rises will lift questions about either students" income is being well spent."

After the avowal of compensate rises last year, Jocelyn Prudence, the head of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association, pronounced "After years of plenty, fast could follow … we would not design to see this direction continue."

Sally Hunt, the ubiquitous cabinet member of the University and College Union, pronounced "This time last year they intimated that large compensate rises would have to stop. The fact proves otherwise.

"There is no clarity or fact for the, customarily enormous, rises they receive.

"Those at the tip censor at the back of the surreptitious universe of arrangement committees as an forgive for their large salaries, while the infancy of their staff have to draw towards them kicking and screaming to determine any sort of compensate increase."

A orator for Oxford University pronounced Prof Hoods compensate was "not unreasonable".

"According to each inhabitant joining list in 2009, Oxford was the series one university in the country," the orator said. "It is the greatest investigate provider in the UK and is probably the majority formidable institutionally."

A orator for Liverpool University pronounced "Our Vice-Chancellors income reflects his well-developed and poignant imagination in the HE sector."

A orator for UCL pronounced "The decisions taken around the Provost"s income reflected a clever duration of expansion for UCL and pre-dated the stream monetary crisis."

He pronounced Prof Grant had forgone a compensate climb this year and would right away cruise receiving a compensate cut subsequent year.

The tip ten pay, benefits and grant packages in the Russell Group of twenty heading investigate universities, 2008/09

1. UCL - Prof Malcolm Grant - �404,742

2. Liverpool - Sir Howard Newby# - �386,000

3. Imperial College London - Sir Roy Anderson* - �373,000

4. Birmingham - Prof Michael Sterling/Prof David Eastwood (after Mar 31) - �352,000

5. Manchester - Prof Alan Gilbert - �334,000

6. Nottingham - Prof David Greenaway^ - �332,333

7. Oxford - Prof John Hood - �327,000

8. Leeds - Prof Michael Arthur - �315,000

9. King"s College London - Rick Trainor - �312,000

10. Bristol - Prof Eric Thomas - �309,000

# Pro-rata succeeded Prof Drummond Bone in Sep 2008

* Since resigned. One month overlie with Sir Richard Sykes

^ Pro-rata succeeded Sir Colin Campbell on 1 Oct 2008