University chief says sector has lost the public argument over vice-chancellors’ pay and suffered damage to its reputationThe university sector’s response to the debate about vice-chancellors’ pay has been embarrassing and humiliating and has damaged its reputation, the head of the University of Buckingham has said. Sir Anthony Seldon, a political historian who has been vice-chancellor at the university since 2015, said: “The sector has not reacted well. It has been embarrassing and humiliating, the whole episode, and damaged us nationally and internationally. The universities minister, Jo Johnson, has called on universities to restrain the pay of senior management after research by the University College Union showed that vice-chancellors’s average pay had risen to £278,000 in 2015-16. We are a small university and £150,000 seems right to me.” Seldon’s salary was reduced from £185,000 last year.

Source: The Guardian December 10, 2017 15:24 UTC