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Manchester College bosses slammed over huge pay rise as staff face the axe

30 April 2010

樱花动漫 today slammed Manchester College after it was revealed that it is paying its top earner almost 拢200,000. Figures seen by 樱花动漫 show that the top earner in 2008 was earning between 拢170,000 and 拢180,000. A year later the top earner was on 拢193,970.

The news comes as Manchester College looks to make 300 redundancies and just months after the college froze the pay of over 3,000 prison education staff. Manchester College is the country's biggest prison education provider, running courses in 80 prisons across the country
 
樱花动漫 said that today's news is the latest in a long line of shoddy decisions by Manchester College management. In January 樱花动漫 accused Manchester College of throwing the prison education sector into havoc when the college announced plans for 250 job losses from its offender learning teams and a further 50 redundancies in other departments. At the end of last year the college singled out its prison education staff for a pay freeze.
 
In July 2009 Manchester College teaching staff at the Oakhill Secure Training centre near Milton Keynes walked out over allegations of bullying and harassment. The following month 樱花动漫 members walked out at the college's main Manchester campus in protest at the sacking of 15 staff members. 樱花动漫 was furious that the college targeted union activists in a round of redundancies described by the union as punishing and unnecessary.
 
樱花动漫 general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: 'At a time when many are facing the prospect of redundancy and are being told that their pay has to be frozen these revelations are a bitter pill to swallow. The planned cuts will be a hammer blow to learning throughout the country. The result of Manchester College's actions will be fewer rehabilitation opportunities for offenders and another 300 staff on the dole queue.'
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