Former college principal to be quizzed on £310,000 pay-off! Herald Scotland

HeraldScotland - Saturday 21 June

Former college principal to be quizzed on £310,000 pay-off

A FORMER college principal who was given a pay-off of more than £310,000 is to be quizzed as part of a review into severance payments at the institution.

Ronnie Knox, the former principal of North Glasgow College, and John Gray, his vice-principal, received £471,000 between them under the deal, which followed the college's merger with two other institutions to form Glasgow Kelvin College.

Audit Scotland raised the issue of transparency over the way the payments were sanctioned, stating there was no evidence they were subjected to "appropriate approval" or assessed as providing value for money.

The Correlate asks if this is the only payment made to former college principals that should be revisited - to check for evidence that they were subjected to "...."appropriate approval" or assessed as providing value for money."?

We are not suggesting that any payments were "wrongly calculated, illegal or fraudlent" but for the sake of transparency and in the public interest we call on the Scottish Government, MSPs and the Scottish Funding Council to publish the value and the costs of the exit packages paid to all outgoing senior managers in the Scottish Further Education Sector.

The Auditor General might then take a heightened interest in more than North Glasgow College?

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