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Article: Anger as '200,000 salaries of top academics revealed.
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- Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- June 13, 2008
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Anger as '200,000 salaries of top academics revealed
The full list of 33 academics and senior university administrators who earn around '7m between them each year was revealed last night.
And it sparked off a sharp disagreement between a union and the Higher Education Authority, the State's agency which funds third-level colleges.
Most of the academics named yesterday are earning in the region of '200,000 to '220,000 annually but one, Prof Des Fitzgerald, vice president in charge of research at UCD, has an annual package worth almost '400,000 as it includes a substantial contribution to a pension fund.
The full list includes a tiny number who were on ...