University Salaries
Sir, —In a letter signed “Money where money is due,’’ published on July 2, the writer suggests that University staff in the technologies be granted higher salaries, reflecting their higher “market value.” This idea of differential salary rates according to faculty is not new; it has been employed both in Australia and in the United Kingdom, where, however, it has been progressively abandoned owing to its unsatisfactory working, and where its sternest critics are those in'the privileged faculties. This is no time for* New Zealand to adopt an already discredited system. Moreover, the letter assumes that the technologies can in some way be isolated; applied sciences cannot exist without pure sciences (such as chemistry and psysics) also. Is mathematics (an essential for the engineer) a technology? And apparently the writer regards the humanities and social sciences as expendable and of no value to our civilisation.—Yours, etc., H. R. GRAY. July 3, 1958.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28629, 4 July 1958, Page 3
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