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(a) academic qualifications,

(b) age;

and the level of salaries currently paid in the United Kingdom should be a sufficient guide in arriving at a

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fair remuneration with compensating allowance made for residence abroad and consequent separation from academic circles at home. In any case we feel that there are obvious objections to settling, as at present, a flat scale of salaries for all Professors in the several

We suggest lso that in future appointments

Faculties.

a slower scale of increment should be applied than has been the practice in the past, so that as a general rule a Professor would not attain his maximum salary until about the age of 50. in passing we note with appreciation that recent appointments to the University staff have been made on a lower basis than the Gollan scale, and

that able recruits have been obtained on this basis.

We have the following comments to make on

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specific salaries:-

The Demonstrator in Electrical Engineering and the Inspector in Workshop Practice both seem to us to be far too highly remunerated for the work they are carrying out, and the former post is one that could in our opinion very well be filled by a graduate of the University.

76. We are of opinion that the gradual process of arriving at the reduced staffing which we have suggested in earlier paragraphs and at the more economical remuneration which is implicit in the two preceding paragraphs could be accelerated by some scheme of grants to supplement their respective superannuation fund accumulations in the case of those older professors who