The Times Higher has a feature this week on VC pay, or "compensation package" as we're being encouraged to call it. Here's the THE:
"Vice-chancellors have again come in for flak over what they are paid. We look at how their compensation packages compare with those of their international peers"
The article is here.
Compensation for what, you have to wonder. For the inconvenience of having their precious time taken up by having to go to work, presumably. How language corrupts our ideas.
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