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Exclusive: College of Law axes staff bonuses
08 February 2013

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The College of Law has confirmed that it has cancelled all staff bonuses for 2013. RollOnFriday has also been told that several staff have been made redundant.

In December 2011 staff were paid a lump sum in advance of the annual February pay review. However a spokesperson confirmed that the College will not be making any such payments in 2013. And according to insider sources a number of staff in the College's accounts department have lost their jobs, with more redundancies to follow. However the College has refused to confirm how many people are affected, instead stating rather grandly that it is "preparing for a period of growth and development".

Nigel Savage after a period of growth

Bonuses have been a hot topic for the College since 2009 when it was compelled to start publishing its accounts. They revealed that Professor Nigel Savage, the head of the College, was collecting an annual salary plus bonus totalling £440k, four times that of the head of a rival provider and trumping Oxbridge vice chancellors and City partners alike. In a sign of the times he dropped his wage in 2011 to a more modest £340k. No doubt staff (and ex-staff) will be keen to discover how much the newly-minted Uni chief has thinned his pay packet in this period of preparation.

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anonymous user 08/02/2013 10:43 Rate it 3 Report as offensive CoL short of cash? Surely this can't be possible? Everything I read these days seems to be sponsored by them.
anonymous user 08/02/2013 15:04 Rate it 2 Report as offensive University of Law now, surely? Are the changes in pay structure and corporate structure related?
anonymous user 08/02/2013 15:30 Rate it 2 Report as offensive Apparently the College pay review is, yet again, "set against the backdrop of uncertain economic conditions". How brave of the College/University to prepare for Growth and Development in such a challenging environment. Making staff redundant may at least result in a growth of bonuses (for the board).
anonymous user 09/02/2013 08:17 Rate it 19 Report as offensive Hard Times ??? so why does the Head of the people team travel first class every day on the train
anonymous user 10/02/2013 18:52 Rate it 15 Report as offensive If the new management at the College/University are serious about trimming the fat, they should look at the ever-growing bunch of middle-managers whose ability to manage is in inverse proportion to their ability to brown-nose
anonymous user 10/02/2013 19:58 Rate it 19 Report as offensive Montagu more like Monty Python ? they need to look at the Hierarchy and sort out the old boy network whom have created jobs for friends who have not got a clue what they are doing.
anonymous user 13/02/2013 23:20 Rate it 0 Report as offensive One can see daily wastages of resources at the College of law. Incredible amounts of money being spent on dead projects and departments, yet we don't have money for permanent staff or for temps no matter the amount of workloads, let alone anything resembling a bonus/raise. It makes my blood boil. I think we will be seeing incidences of cardiac arrest or maybe CLASS RAGE at the College of law one of these days.
anonymous user 14/02/2013 17:27 Rate it 0 Report as offensive What's the teachers' salaries?
anonymous user 18/02/2013 07:06 Rate it 2 Report as offensive Mystifies me that I was at CoL Manchester last year and I was "taught" by people who "taught" my dad when he went to Chester in 1995(I was five). They just still seem to be teachers. How much are they on, for what basically amounts to reading things out? Lot of NQs who would cost less could do the same for less money and much more recent experience.
anonymous user 19/02/2013 18:51 Rate it 1 Report as offensive Axeman employed at the College Of law redundancies to be made across all centers watch your backs everyone !!!!!!!! Wonder how much the board pay percentages were 0.5 - 2 .oo per cent ???? like ours Yeah Right
anonymous user 26/02/2013 19:31 Rate it 2 Report as offensive There is less chance for me to have a rewarding and fulfilling career at COL than there is for a suicide bomber to die from a shark attack in the Thames.....
anonymous user 28/02/2013 20:01 Rate it 1 Report as offensive I wonder what and whom will get the slap on the back in the next edition of COLLEGE MATTERS magazine words of wisdom from the Head Of the People Team (what does he actualy do)?? Answers on a postcard please
anonymous user 29/03/2013 20:42 Rate it 0 Report as offensive So when are these so called" buiness people" going to start showing the door to these top paid earners who have hide behind their board members chums who do JK ST & are completely useless & clueless as to the jobrole

anonymous user
08/02/2013 10:43

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CoL short of cash? Surely this can't be possible? Everything I read these days seems to be sponsored by them.

anonymous user
08/02/2013 15:04

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University of Law now, surely? Are the changes in pay structure and corporate structure related?

anonymous user
08/02/2013 15:30

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Apparently the College pay review is, yet again, "set against the backdrop of uncertain economic conditions".

How brave of the College/University to prepare for Growth and Development in such a challenging environment.
Making staff redundant may at least result in a growth of bonuses (for the board).

anonymous user
09/02/2013 08:17

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Hard Times ??? so why does the Head of the people team travel first class every day on the train

anonymous user
10/02/2013 18:52

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If the new management at the College/University are serious about trimming the fat, they should look at the ever-growing bunch of middle-managers whose ability to manage is in inverse proportion to their ability to brown-nose

anonymous user
10/02/2013 19:58

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Montagu more like Monty Python ? they need to look at the Hierarchy and sort out the old boy network whom have created jobs for friends who have not got a clue what they are doing.

anonymous user
13/02/2013 23:20

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One can see daily wastages of resources at the College of law. Incredible amounts of money being spent on dead projects and departments, yet we don't have money for permanent staff or for temps no matter the amount of workloads, let alone anything resembling a bonus/raise. It makes my blood boil. I think we will be seeing incidences of cardiac arrest or maybe CLASS RAGE at the College of law one of these days.

anonymous user
14/02/2013 17:27

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What's the teachers' salaries?

anonymous user
18/02/2013 07:06

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Mystifies me that I was at CoL Manchester last year and I was "taught" by people who "taught" my dad when he went to Chester in 1995(I was five). They just still seem to be teachers. How much are they on, for what basically amounts to reading things out? Lot of NQs who would cost less could do the same for less money and much more recent experience.

anonymous user
19/02/2013 18:51

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Axeman employed at the College Of law redundancies to be made across all centers watch your backs everyone !!!!!!!! Wonder how much the board pay percentages were 0.5 - 2 .oo per cent ???? like ours

Yeah Right

anonymous user
26/02/2013 19:31

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There is less chance for me to have a rewarding and fulfilling career at COL than there is for a suicide bomber to die from a shark attack in the Thames.....

anonymous user
28/02/2013 20:01

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I wonder what and whom will get the slap on the back in the next edition of COLLEGE MATTERS magazine words of wisdom from the Head Of the People Team (what does he actualy do)??
Answers on a postcard please

anonymous user
29/03/2013 20:42

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So when are these so called" buiness people" going to start showing the door to these top paid earners who have hide behind their board members chums who do J**K S**T & are completely useless & clueless as to the jobrole

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