50,000 pounds sterling for your thoughts

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The UK Department of Trade and Industry are trying to produce guidelines for academics employed by universities and who take on consultancy work in the private sector. Some universities have found it necessary to permit their academic staff to carry out consultancy work, as they are unable to pay competitive salaries. Around 7%-8% of academics in new universities earn money from activities outside the universities. Cambridge university pays its professors around 41,000 pounds sterling per year. A case relating to Academic Simon Fishel's extra earnings is being heard in the UK courts.

Schools

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Pay set for local free-for-all

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Leading universities in the United Kingdom have moved forward with plans to set their own pay levels, a move that could cause the existing national pay system to crumble. The move by Nottingham University and Imperial College London comes despite a strike by the Association of University Teachers (AUT), the country's largest academic union, against the proposed reforms to the national pay system. The AUT is against the proposals as it believes that the reforms will allow higher education to be marketised, with the size of academic salaries depending on what they teach and where they work rather than on nationally set levels.

Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Colleges and universities, Labor relations, Association of University Teachers

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Union puts boot into 'celebrity' culture

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Delegates at the annual conference of the Association of University Teachers in Scarborough, UK, heard how the research assessment exercise has created a football-style market of top academics who earn the most money while university research is damaged as other staff fall into lower leagues, where they are underpaid and overworked. Delegates at the conference passed a motion condemning the way in which academics' research is judged, stating that the assessment is an unfair, random, secretive and divisive method of allocating research funding.

Research and Testing Services, Scientific Research and Development Services, Research & Development-Universities, Evaluation, Conferences, meetings and seminars, University research, Educational aspects

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