{"id":134111,"date":"2023-11-19T22:34:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T22:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=134111"},"modified":"2023-11-19T22:34:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T22:34:43","slug":"head-of-imperial-college-london-saw-her-pay-surge-by-186000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/world-news\/head-of-imperial-college-london-saw-her-pay-surge-by-186000\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of Imperial College London saw her pay surge by \u00a3186,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Head of scandal-hit Imperial College London saw her pay surge by \u00a3186,000 last year &#8211; the biggest pay rise across all British universities<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alice Gast&#8217;s salary was slammed after being given a bump of \u00a3186,000 last year\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The head of Imperial College London pocketed the biggest pay rise across all British universities \u2013 despite overseeing a string of scandals.<\/p>\n<p>Alice Gast was given a bump of \u00a3186,000 last year, taking her combined salary and benefits from \u00a3527,400 to \u00a3714,000.<\/p>\n<p>The eye-watering increase emerged in a report published by the Higher Education Statistics Authority, listing the highest paying university executives across Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Gast, who stepped down from the job in July last year, was one of five university heads receiving more than \u00a3500,000 in total remuneration in 2021-22, and one of ten receiving more than \u00a3400,000.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/19\/21\/77997517-12768445-image-a-268_1700428551778.jpg\" height=\"834\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Alice Gast, pictured, was given a bump of \u00a3186,000 last year, taking her combined salary and benefits from \u00a3527,400 to \u00a3714,000<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/19\/21\/77997515-12768445-image-a-270_1700428647684.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the academic admitted bullying a senior colleague at the university after the higher education regulator launched an investigation<\/p>\n<p>Her salary has been slammed by critics after Professor Gast was at the centre of a bullying investigation and also presided over a number of high-profile failings at the university.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the academic admitted bullying a senior colleague at the university after the higher education regulator launched an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Imperial academics were also accused of exaggerating the benefits of the Ultra Low Emission Zone at the request of London Mayor Sadiq Khan\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Reform Party mayoral candidate Howard Fox said: \u2018It stinks that the former president of Imperial has wallowed in such a significant pay rise while motorists have been hit so unnecessarily hard in the pocket.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/19\/21\/77997521-12768445-image-a-269_1700428640907.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Imperial academics were also accused of exaggerating the benefits of the Ultra Low Emission Zone at the request of London Mayor Sadiq Khan \u2019s office<\/p>\n<p>The university also drew criticism for its modelling during the pandemic led by Professor Neil Ferguson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Its \u2018Report 9\u2019 paper is thought to have been the biggest motivator behind the imposition of a national lockdown in March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>But it subsequently emerged that researchers had based part of the modelling on codes that were more than a decade old, and had themselves raised concerns about \u2018data limitations\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative MP Bob Seely said: \u2018I am all for paying big bucks for big successes. But I would not trust anything that comes out of Imperial after their Covid-19 modelling.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Imperial College London was approached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12768445\/Head-scandal-hit-Imperial-College-London-saw-pay-surge-186-000-year-biggest-pay-rise-British-universities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of scandal-hit Imperial College London saw her pay surge by \u00a3186,000 last year &#8211; the biggest pay rise across&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Head of Imperial College London saw her pay surge by \u00a3186,000 - bluemull<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/world-news\/head-of-imperial-college-london-saw-her-pay-surge-by-186000\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Head of Imperial College London saw her pay surge by \u00a3186,000 - bluemull\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Head of scandal-hit Imperial College London saw her pay surge by \u00a3186,000 last year &#8211; 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