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Vice-chancellors may be winning big from tuition fees – but academics aren't

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The vice-chancellor pay scandal is concealing the real problem within universities: talented young researchers are leaving because of low salaries

A scandal has rocked Britain’s academic establishments and exploded across the media this summer. The government is now involved too, with MPs describing the financial compensation as disgraceful, and the Lords asking for an enquiry. I’m talking – of course – about vice-chancellor pay. The idea that these senior academics are paid so much appears abhorrent, and has elicited appropriate responses.

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