article_snippet: Vince Cable urged universities to 'think twice' about vice-chancellors' pay .
article_snippet: ‘think twice’ about vice-chancellors’ pay after it emerged that universities average earnings topped £260,000 last year.
article_snippet: The Business Secretary said large pay rises would be ‘hard to swallow’ when many institutions were short of funding.
article_snippet: At a time when most university staff are seeing modest wage increases, if any at all, news of these large pay rises for university bosses will be hard to swallow.
article_snippet: It would be wise for the sector to think twice before increasing vice-chancellors’ salaries.
article_snippet: ’ TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said: ‘Soaraway pay at the top has been matched by zero-hours contracts and big real-wage falls for staff across higher education.
article_snippet: ’ last year, ministers said ministers had serious concerns about the ‘substantial upward drift’ of salaries and that university leaders should show ‘much greater restraint’.
highlights_snippet: Large pay rises 'hard to swallow' when many institutions short on funding .
  