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<p><del class="ministerial">The Higher Education Statistics Agency publishes information
on staff salaries in the higher education sector. The most recent publication can
be found at: <a href="https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications/staff-2016-17"
target="_blank">https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications/staff-2016-17</a>.
The government has made no estimate regarding the difference in earnings between the
highest and lowest paid employees in the sector.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">Higher
education providers are autonomous and it is for them to set pay levels for their
staff. Universities receive significant amounts of public funding, so it is only right
that their senior staff pay arrangements command public confidence and deliver value
for money for both students and taxpayers.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">The
government consulted on behalf of the Office for Students (OfS) on making arrangements
for the publication of data on senior staff remuneration.</del></p><p><del class="ministerial">From
2018 the OfS will require registered providers to disclose the relationship between
the remuneration of the head of the provider and that of all other employees, expressed
as a pay multiple. It will also require providers to publish the number of their staff
paid more than £100,000 per annum, the total remuneration package of the head of the
provider, and a justification for this remuneration package.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The
transparency created through reporting, is crucial to accelerating progress to close
the gender pay gap. The data on the gender pay gap in the higher education sector
can be found at: <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/annualsurveyofhoursandearningsashegenderpaygaptables"
target="_blank">https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/annualsurveyofhoursandearningsashegenderpaygaptables</a>.</ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial"> </ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">From 2018, the OfS will
require registered providers to disclose the relationship between the remuneration
of the head of the provider and that of all other employees, expressed as a pay multiple.
It will also require providers to publish the number of their staff paid more than
£100,000 per annum, the total remuneration package of the head of the provider, and
a justification for this remuneration package.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">
</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">The Higher Education Funding Council for England,
which preceded the OfS, commissioned a project that aims to equalise the gender balance
and ethnic diversity of higher education governing bodies. This work will include
establishing an online exchange to recruit board members.</ins></p>
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