Dr. Hugh Brady:

That data and the reports I have seen refer to a comparison of pay scales for lecturers, senior lecturers, associate professors and professors across the jurisdictions. There is one exclusion. Australia, a country that appears to pay more, is not included, and it is a continent to which we are losing people.

My previous remarks related to individuals, not individuals at professorial level and below but to the academic middle management layer, the individuals we want to step up to serve as heads of school, heads of department and programme deans. We have a system where the average salary by comparison with that in the United Knigdom is very favourable, but what we lack is flexibility to incentivise individuals for superb performance or to step up to the major leadership roles. It is the inflexibility of our system that is at issue.