Revealed: The Spiralling Wages of University Principals Rises Up to 70per Cent While Staff Face Redundancy Threats Rises Up to 70per Cent While Staff Face Redundancy Threats Investigation

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SCOTLAND's public spending watchdog has been asked to examine the pay of university principals following a Sunday Herald investigation into the higher education sector.

Audit Scotland has been called to step in after it emerged that the elite group of officials had been given salary increases of up to 70per cent over five years while at the same time making staff redundant.

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Revealed: The Spiralling Wages of University Principals Rises Up to 70per Cent While Staff Face Redundancy Threats Rises Up to 70per Cent While Staff Face Redundancy Threats Investigation

Some of the officials, 12 of whom now receive remuneration packages of more than GBP200,000, have also been getting bonuses and private health care paid by the taxpayer. Hugh Henry, the chair of Holyrood's public audit committee, said the pay rises were "truly staggering".

The public purse currently puts more than GBP1 billion per year into the country's higher education institutions, m...

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