Just look at Germany: no university tuition fees,no fat-cat pay scandals. The UK system is indefensibleAs pay scandals continue to embarrass British higher education, with university chiefs receiving eye-watering salaries and golden handshakes, or it’s time to put a question to: why can’t we be more like Germany?A scandal erupted there a few years ago when the vice-chancellor of Cologne University increased his salary from €78876 (£69403) a year in 2006 to €133781 in 2012. In 2014 a table revealing this was leaked,prompting outrage. Since then top salaries in German universities have been held in check. Germany is far from perfect, but we can only wish we had its problems. Related: Andrew Adonis: a one-man tuition fee Twitter storm Related: The only objective way to terminate university fees is to raise taxation – sorry! | Peter Scott Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com