Job crisis campus prof's £50k jollies

Bosses racked up huge costs as university faces cuts of up to £12m to balance books

- BY JENNIFER HYLAND

THE outgoing boss of a university facing £12million in budget cuts spent more than £50,000 travelling to exotic locations in just over two years.

Professor George Boyne, the vice-chancellor of Aberdeen University, racked up a total of £53,957 in expenses.

The figure included £45,053 on flights, of which £28,140 was spent travelling business class to Doha, Canada, New York, India and China between April 2023 and September last year.

Boyne, who took up the role in 2018, earned £339,000 including employer pension contributions last year, before stepping down as principal and vice-chancellor in October.

Last week, university bosses told staff it must make £12million in savings with proposals to cut undergraduate and postgraduate courses as well as to stop recruitment for some postgraduate courses.