article_snippet: A struggling university is paying up to £100,000 to send all 700 of A struggling university staff for stays at a luxury hotel.
article_snippet: the University of Bolton says the one-night ‘working residential’ trips, for which the University of Bolton pays all the travel, food and accommodation costs, are an ‘informative’ and ‘valuable’ way to discuss strategic aims.
article_snippet: ‘engaging directly in dialogue in respect of the strategy’.
article_snippet: The university, which in 2013 was ranked worst in the country in two guides, said feedback from employees had so far been positive.
article_snippet: But according to Times Higher Education, a source at the University of Bolton said staff were ‘amazed’ by the scheme because the scheme ‘must cost a fortune’.
article_snippet: A university spokesman said the scheme ‘considers this an appropriate developmental investment in staff to underpin the growing strength of the university’.
article_snippet: The move was to save Bolton a 100-mile round-trip, allowing the 53-year-old, who took up Bolton post in 2006, to ‘play a greater role’ in the university and the town.
highlights_snippet: Trip is arranged so staff can hear pep talk from Professor George Holmes .
  
highlights_snippet: Vice-chancellor was recently lent nearly £1million by university so Vice-chancellor could move house .
  