University Of Bath Vice-Chancellor Quits In Pay Row

[mikey4444]

She has gone at last ::::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-42152743

[emmie]

468k crikey...

[EcclesCake]

Do you have a vested interest in this matter Mikey, if not why does it bother you so?

[mikey4444]

Crikey indeed Emmie !

[mikey4444]

Eccles....do you have a "vested interest" in everything you post, or comment on ?

Trying to stifle debate perhaps ?

[Hopkirk]

She had to go.

So greedy.

[mikey4444]

Hoppy....greedy doesn't even come close !

While everybody else at the Uni has had to put up with wages freezes and this never-ending austerity, this woman has been sat at the trough, stuffing her mouth with money.

It was only a matter of time before she went. I am just unsure why she hasn't gone today, and why the Uni has to continue to pay here until next summer.

[andy-hughes]

I have said many times - people with power never use that power to give themselves less of anything.

The fault likes not with the individual, who obviously feels she has justified every penny paid, and that will be paid as she takes gardening leave and drives around in her free car, but with the pay bodies that allow such salaries to be paid.

I have said before, and will say again, massive salaries are extremely simple to sort out, it goes like this -

Right Mr Candidate, you are applying for the ten-million-pound salaried job with my firm, wonderful.

I am delighted to give you the job in this basis -

You will perform to a pre-determined standard, and bring in a level of pre-determined profit into the business in the first year.

If you are successful, we will meet and re-negotiate your contract for another twelve months, which is not bound to increase in value.

Should you fail to meet the targets advised, I will reclaim the entire salary package minus twenty thousand pounds, which will in effect be your salary for the year, and I will dismiss you without notice.

Since you believe you are the 'right person for the job' as we like to say, I am sure that you will have the necessary belief in your ability to be sure you will succeed, and you will be happy to sign just here.

Should you not feel that your abilities match the conditions, then clearly you are not the 'right person', in which case, please ask the next candidate to come in, as you leave.

Thanks.

Now - what's wrong with that?

[-Talbot-]

andy-hughes
I have said many times - people with power never use that power to give themselves less of anything.


Never?

[jno]

half a story there. The other half would explain just how much less others in the same job were getting, and whether they did more work or less, more successfully or less. She says the university has tripled in size this century: might this be a reason for paying more? Or is this simply a matter of finding the highest-paid one each year and getting him or her to resign? (Has it ever been a him?)

Or perhaps it's just the usual wealth envy.

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - // andy-hughes
I have said many times - people with power never use that power to give themselves less of anything.


Never? //

Not as far as I know - if you know different, I would be interested to see evidence, if not, then my perception stands.

[-Talbot-]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jul/28/peter-davies-doncaster-mayor-protest

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - thank you for the link - I am happy to stand corrected.

[THECORBYLOON]

She'll be around for a wee while yet.

"Professor Breakwell, who was appointed as Vice-Chancellor in 2001, has decided to step down at the end of this academic year on 31 August 2018. She will then take a sabbatical to further her academic research for a semester and retire from the University on 28 February 2019. This timeframe will enable an orderly transition as the University prepares to start the search for a new Vice-Chancellor."

She will be paid until she leaves in 2019.

[jno]

like Britain's much loved MEPs, then

[youngmafbog]

For once I agree with you Mickey, this salary was/is ludicrous for the position. Paid for by studenets leaving 50K in debt.

//Or perhaps it's just the usual wealth envy. //

Not a t all on my part. I have no problem with wealth as you should well know. But salaries need to be reasonable, or it leads to civil unrest, which is why I have also posted in the past about some of the ridiculous salaries paid in the private sector too.

[jno]

but who says it's unreasonable? What's the basis for fixing salaries? Has she proved herself undeserving of it? Nobody's saying.

[gness]

Whatever we feel about her salary, I find full pay for her sabbatical and a £31,000 loan written off a bit obscene......

[Bazile]

Apparently she had targets to achieve - (so says one of her supporters - and she achieve those targets - so he says )

The difficulty here is that we don't know what those targets were - they were kept a secret - even those at the uni don't know apart from a select few .

So we have no way to judge whether those targets - compared to other unis - warranted her salary .

It would be interesting to know what the Vice Chancellors at other comparable unis , are paid

[youngmafbog]

According to this:
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2017-10-11/debates/17101130000003/UniversityVice-ChancellorsPay
£250K - which they (and I ) still consider far too much for a non commercial organisation.

[jno]

but they are commercial organisations these days. They're expected to drum up more "customers" (students, they used to be), which she seems to have done, and take their money. That includes as many overseas customers you can get who won't give anything else back to to this country from their education, but them's the rules. Universities weren't like that in my day, but times have changed.