Academics in Britain reacted angrily to the news that some "fat cat" university bosses saw their pay soar by more than 100 per cent last year.
Big money for uni' bosses
Research by the Times Higher Educational Supplement found that ex-Open University vice-chancellor Sir John Daniel topped the 2000-2001 pay league, as his earnings more than doubled to £309,000 sterling (€495,000). Two others topped £250,000 sterling.
Baroness Warwick, chief executive of Universities UK, defended the huge increases: "Universities will wish the salaries of their vice-chancellors to reflect that they are running multi-million pound businesses." But Sally Hunt, assistant general secretary of the Association of University Teachers, said: "The total pay increases for vice-chancellors is the equivalent of nearly 1,000 new lecturers. During a period of under-funding and cutbacks, staff and students will be left bewildered."
Kabul women step forward
Clusters of blue burqas dotted the University of Kabul Wednesday as female students were permitted on campus to take entrance exams. About 500 women, out of 3,151 students, sat the exam to enter the largest university in the country. Many had continued to study in an underground network in recent years. "My mother and my father encouraged me to learn. They said that the Taliban regime would not be the last regime and that I should prepare myself for the future," said one, who wished to remain anonymous.
