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Katrine Bussey

MSPs challenge university principal on pay and perks amid £140m savings goal

Edinburgh University principal Professor Sir Peter Mathieson has refused to rule out making compulsory redundances (Chris Close/University of Edinburgh/PA) -

The principal of Edinburgh University has defended his six-figure salary to MSPs at the same time as he refused to rule out making compulsory redundancies as the institution seeks to make £140 million of savings.

Professor Sir Peter Mathieson insisted that paying the senior management team at the university “nothing” would “make largely no difference to the size of the expenditure challenge we face”.

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