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Bassnett is right to be outraged. I am happy for my vice-chancellor to be paid a lot of money as long as other staff get paid proportionate salaries that are also in keeping with other professions. If a v-c gets ?165K, then a dean should get ?120K, a professor ?100K, a principal lecturer ?75K, a senior lecturer ?50K and a young lecturer with a newly minted PhD ?30K.

The problem is not that v-cs get paid too much - the problem is that other ranks are ludicrously underpaid.

Paul R. Bowden
Department of computing and mathematics
Nottingham Trent 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ