Academia’s unfolding tale of greed goes beyond vice-chancellors’ salaries: it’s about how the decisions about their pay are made,and by whomScandals aren’t meant to happen in British universities. Parliament, tabloid newsrooms, and the City … those we expect to spew out sleaze. Not the gown-wearing,exam-sitting, quiet-in-the-library surrounds of higher education.
Yet we should all be scandalised by what is happening in academia. It is a tale of huge greed and of vandalism – and it is being committed suitable at the top, or by the very people who are meant to be custodians of these institutions. whether it continues,it will wreck one of the few world-beating industries Britain has left.
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Source: guardian.co.uk