Accountability and UK university governance

Your return to the VC salaries issue (Revealed: how vice-chancellor pay eclipses public sector, 12 March) is timely.The University of Bath’s remuneration committee meets on Wednesday, 14 March, at a time when its staff are on strike over the downgrading of their pensions, with the students demanding compensation for lost teaching time.The university’s chair of council, Tom Sheppard, and other senior lay office-holders cling to their positions despite calls for them to resign.