Rent-free living for principal angers staff
Professor Ian Diamond has been living in the Chanonry since July and has overseen a 180,000 revamp of the property.
Mary Senior, Scotland official for lecturers' union the UCU, said: "At a time when university staff are facing a real terms cut to pay, as well as cuts to university jobs, it is galling that a principal on an inflated salary can live rent and council tax-free for the best part of a year."
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Hide AdA university spokeswoman said: "Prof Diamond had initially expressed a wish not to live in Chanonry Lodge, and his salary was agreed accordingly. That position was reconsidered."
She added that Prof Diamond would pay rent from 1 March.