Vice-chancellor pay

Union describes results of THE analysis as ‘sickening’ amid spate of redundancies and course closures in crisis-hit universities

Earnings gap between university bosses and ordinary workers has quintupled since Australia stopped regulating vice-chancellors’ salaries, analysis finds

Long-awaited governance council, delayed by 18 months, stands in for 50-year-old regulator

Average salary rises 3.5 per cent to £327,000, with Cambridge’s Deborah Prentice topping pay list

Despite the large increases in surpluses, top-ranked universities both report net cash outflows in operating activities of more than £58 million

Simone Buitendijk worked just a few months of the last academic year but received over £430,000 in total remuneration

Releasing details of Paddy Nixon’s final-year earnings of $A1.8 million would be ‘contrary to the public interest’, Canberra insists

Institution that dispensed the highest vice-chancellor remuneration in sector’s history looking at course and job cuts

Opacity is a feature of a university sector that has ‘lost its way’, according to Australia’s newest sector leader

Biggest pay packet in at least five years drives average leaders’ pay into seven figures, raising questions over Canberra boss’ surprise departure

Hefty pay packages and patchy record on declaring financial data should prompt tougher scrutiny of for-profit sector, says critic

Private providers make biggest payouts to departing principals

Compulsory national guidelines for Australian university executive salaries will not necessarily reduce them

New ‘process’ among proposals to improve quality and transparency of university governance

Average remuneration up by 8 per cent, including multimillion-rand bonus for former Johannesburg head

Craig Mahoney’s remuneration, including £340,000 compensation for loss of office, equivalent to about £4,500 a day

THE analysis of accounts of 115 universities suggests remuneration typically increased by 5 per cent last year

Union describes payment made when staff were facing redundancy as ‘unconscionable’, but institution says it was following contract

Former leader Dame Louise Richardson left with equivalent of year’s pay on top of her usual salary, accounts reveal

Hiring committees should ‘measure the egotism of candidates’ for vice-chancellor roles, say researchers who compared leaders’ traits and institutional outcomes

Hepi author warns of ‘dangerous’ pressure to reduce leaders’ salaries in reaction to attention from the media and politicians

While Covid-19 interrupted the inexorable rise in university leaders’ pay packets, many still pocket seven-figure packages

Ivy League campus says long-time president deserved record compensation, despite outside questions over equity and transparency

Mechanisms to determine university leaders’ salaries are opaque and unreliable. We need more meaningful metrics, says Adrian Furnham

Average leader’s remuneration stood at £308,000 last year, according to analysis of 118 university accounts

For all their collegiality, pay disparity in Australian universities is ‘not out of step’ with big business

Up to 50 staff at wealthier Australian institutions out-earn the average English vice-chancellor, FOI documents reveal

Research shows need for strong checks and balances on power of executive, according to authors

Clash over officials’ salaries occurs against a backdrop of resentment over union leadership’s pandemic tactics

Alice Gast emerges as top-paid leader among Russell Group

Audit finds shortcomings in Australian university’s capital works, budget, fraud control and executive pay arrangements

Regulator dismisses Australian university’s claim that it is primarily a commercially funded organisation

London institution’s president received highest basic salary across English sector in 2019-20, says regulator

Transparency ‘doesn’t go far enough’, says South Australian Greens MP

Voluntary principles may be a fait accompli, with chancellors who endorsed them also sitting on remuneration committees

Whitlam and HECS fostered a ‘social psychology’ of indifference towards higher education, Australasian conference hears

Bosses of private institutions that collect millions of pounds from student loans have received generous share and dividend awards

Notwithstanding their generosity in 2020, most university leaders will be back to seven-figure earnings as the crisis really bites

Statement in financial accounts explaining Bolton leader’s pay runs to almost two and a half pages

New Sydney boss to earn much less than his predecessor – but more than Michael Spence’s current income in the UK

Accounts show two leaders departed roles with payments of almost £200,000 while others received inflation-busting uplifts to salaries

Governments must step in because remuneration committees cannot resist upward pressure on executive salaries, researchers argue

Seven-figure pay packets raise questions over strategic leadership in year when universities’ business model crashed

While institutional accounts indicate that the average university boss could have pocketed seven-digit earnings last year, 2020 will be a different story

Many bosses lead from the front, ceding 20-plus per cent of their pay to help plug pandemic shortfalls

Sydney v-c says upcoming move to London ‘made more interesting’ by uncertainty around city’s global position 

Scottish Funding Council review condemns how bumper payments to secure ‘orderly exit’ of Sir Ian Diamond were awarded

Average remuneration across mission group stands at £348,090, or £356,450 including pension contributions

Average remuneration hits A$982,900 (£543,800), Times Higher Education analysis shows

Member of catering staff draws support after appeal to Sir David Eastwood to survive on her salary for a month

Sir Ian Diamond reportedly did not trigger his 12-month notice period until his departure from the university

Shift in council membership may be factor in escalating vice-chancellor pay

Lancaster University head will succeed Sir Christopher Snowden in October

Tough stances on grade inflation, unconditional offers and senior pay will help maintain global excellence, says Michael Barber 

A comparison of pay data with the THE rankings offers insights on which leaders provide the best value for money

Education secretary Damian Hinds’ call for more scrutiny of decision-making behind vice-chancellors’ ‘high pay’ may lead to problems, experts warn

David Green says exposing pay disparities within universities may encourage removing lower-paid staff from direct payroll

Average salary rise of £8,000 awarded to English university leaders highlights ‘lightweight’ nature of new regulator, says University and College Union

Modest remuneration rises and inclusion of housing costs push average pay packets past £350,000 mark

Latest remuneration figures bring prospect of more criticism for UK universities