Pay rises stall for v-cs as rank-and-file staff face freeze

"He is also due to receive another similar payment this year if he does not work for any other institution." - What a joke ! 100,000 for not working! What exactly would happen if he works for another institution?!

Meanwhile, academic staff is casualised... told there's no money to extend contracts or hire staff to deliver courses and projects... all because of... Covid and/or Brexit/fewer students. Haha!

Would anybody miss them if we didn't have them ? For the same money we could employ at least 10 'real' staff doing a full week of productive work. Which would benefit the institution more ?

It is disgraceful given it requires far greater skill to be an academic than to be a manager. The pay should be no higher than it is for professors which is currently about £70k.

It is just theft as they get to decide their own pay. Anyone deciding their own pay always takes as much as they can politically get away with. These managers are either failed academics or failed managers from some other industry.