Bassnett is right to be outraged. I am happy for my vice-chancellor to be paid a lot of money as long as other staff get paid proportionate salaries that are also in keeping with other professions. If a v-c gets 拢165K, then a dean should get 拢120K, a professor 拢100K, a principal lecturer 拢75K, a senior lecturer 拢50K and a young lecturer with a newly minted PhD 拢30K.
The problem is not that v-cs get paid too much - the problem is that other ranks are ludicrously underpaid.
Paul R. Bowden
Department of computing and mathematics
Nottingham Trent University
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