Varsity Issue 809

he Independent Student Newspaper

Issue 809 Friday 22nd April 2016 Published in Cambridge since 1947

4 News: Zero Carbon divestment push

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12 Interview: Ben Miller

20 Culture: Ruling Class

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Pay hike proposed for next ViceChancellor Kaya Wong & Louis Ashworth Cambridge’s next Vice-Chancellor could be set for pay rise of up to 38 per cent, Varsity can exclusively reveal. Reserved minutes acquired by Varsity show that the Remuneration Committee have proposed a salary range of “£400k-£450k” for the next Vice-Chancellor (VC), who is due to take up the position in 2017. he proposed salary range, which includes a pension, would constitute a pay rise of between 23 and 38 per cent compared to the most recently released igures, which indicated that Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz received a salary of £325,000 in 2014/15. However, even if the increase came

to be at the higher end of the possible range, it would still most likely put Cambridge’s VC’s earnings below his or her counterpart at Oxford, where VC Andrew Hamilton received £462,000 in remuneration in 2014/15. On the other hand, the average pay packet for the Vice-Chancellors of Russell Group universities is smaller, at £297,600 in 2013/14. he committee minutes note that the proposed salary range is “broad”, and that it is “simply a basis on which to initiate discussions with potential candidates”. It states that this proposed range was “in efect, a guide rather than a price.” he pay packet is being ofered in the hope of attracting high-quality candidates for the position of ViceChancellor. According to the same document, “job satisfaction might be more important to candidates than pay Continued on page 3

CUSU cuts threaten TCS print Joe Robinson Senior News Editor

• Documents show potential pay rise of 38 per cent • University seeks to compete with rival institutions

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26 heatre: Constellations

Students rail against Bouattia election NEWS 5 & 8, COMMENT 13

An internal CUSU email seen by Varsity sheds light on the “structural problems with CUSU’s funding model” that have resulted in plans to end the print edition of he Cambridge Student. he email was sent to members of the TCS Trustees and CUSU sabbatical oicers by CUSU’s General Manager, Mark McCormack. It explains what he characterises as the “diicult situation” that has led to the “reduction in resource allocation for TCS in the 2016-17 budget”. It lists the “reduction in revenue capacity of some income streams”, the “increased size of the sabbatical team” – including the new Disabled Students’ Oicer role – the “increased organisational cost-base”, and the “lack of university support” as part of this situation. hese problems, which the email claims have “been understood for some time”, have led CUSU to consider a number of cost-cutting initiatives. hese include “restructuring stafing in the business team”, “forming a shared service with the GU, with proit and cost sharing”, and, in the short term, “reducing the size of the sabbatical team”, including deferring the election of the next CUSU Coordinator until a “fuller review of the constitution takes place” before the start of the next inancial year. Continued on page 3