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Institution’s annual accounts show big increase in executive pay after departure of leader known for declining wage rises

Rules need tweaking to rein in high salaries that have become ‘emblematic’ of Australian universities’ social licence problems, George Williams argues

Swinburne’s Pollaers reportedly asked for more money while confronting governance inquiry fuelled by resentment over overpaid leaders

Institution’s provost also gains access to on-campus residence after stepping up to replace former leader who left amid funding crisis

Institutional autonomy ‘not threatened’ by proposal to more than halve executive pay, academics say, as universities insist councils should maintain control

Senate committee recommends major transparency and accountability changes to Australian universities’ governing bodies

Inflated earnings keep rising after Covid-era pay cuts, as ostensible scrutinising bodies trade responsibility

Australia shadow minister promises ‘nuance’ and a far less combative approach following ‘thumping election loss’

Under-fire national university says union has never flagged ‘any systemic issues of underpayments’ as it faces fresh allegations of governance failures

Annual report reveals A$90m surplus but university insists ‘structural and operating deficit’ makes belt-tightening necessary

Cash-strapped university tightens executive pay as it hopes to return to â€˜break-even’ position in 2025

Leaders still among the best paid in the sector, with little sign that increased regulatory scrutiny or financial hardship is having an effect on wages

Withholding hundreds of thousands of Australian dollars seen as a way of enabling ‘clawback’ of future losses resulting from â€˜unobserved risky behaviour or malpractice’

Seven-figure salaries needed to attract top talent, universities argue, but staff apprehend ballooning executive remuneration with ‘disbelief and anger’

‘Real issue’ is whether people think universities give value, says new university leader who accepted lower salary

Private member’s bill the latest slap in the face to a sector struggling for social licence as election looms

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 Â£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