Universities 'refuse to reveal top salaries’

By Telegraph Staff. Senior academic pay amongst information redacted for confidentiality by universities. Universities are refusing to disclose secret details of wage rises for vice-chancellors, according to a report into the ''murky world'' of senior academic pay. The University and College Union (UCU) said that just 27 out of 139 institutions responded to a request to see minutes of meetings of remuneration committees, which set pay rates, while half of those that did reply redacted some information. The union, which has staged several strikes since October after claiming that university staff had suffered a 13 per cent cut in real-terms pay since 2009, said it was time to “lift the lid” on pay rises for senior staff. Read more...