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IN its report on "University Finance in Great Britain", dated July 1943, the British Association Committee on Post-War University Education recorded the view that the question of university salaries was the essence of the situation and should be given priority over almost everything else. The salaries of university staffs of all grades were, in the opinion of that Committee, hopelessly inadequate in competition with the world outside, and in the lower ranges, in some universities, inadequate to afford a reasonable standard of life under prevailing social conditions. In the older universities, the salaries of the non-professorial staff were considered not inadequate in the lower ranks, except for the few who devote themselves almost wholly to research. At the provincial universities, however, the average salary of the non-professorial staff was not more than £450–475 a year, as against £600–1,000 for Cambridge (omitting demonstrators and faculty assistant lecturers).
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Academic and Professional Incentives. Nature 162, 977–979 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162977a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162977a0