PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Universities: Pay (4 January 2019)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the value for money of the average salary received by University Vice-Chancellors.
Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)
Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)
Answer
Universities are autonomous institutions but they receive significant amounts of public funding, so they are subject to public scrutiny.
The government has set up the regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), to regulate the higher education sector. Universities are now required to publish the justification for salaries of their Vice-Chancellors, and the OfS has powers to take action if universities do not do this.
Answered by:
Chris Skidmore (Conservative)
11 January 2019
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