Salary Crisis at Cambridge

Abstract

Because of heavy pressure on our space, correspondents are asked to keep their letters short. Salary Crisis at Cambridge SIR,-Your leading article (November 26, p. 1579) is an expression of Association policy as well as a commentary on a particular problem in Cambridge University. The Special Representative Meeting of September 28, 1960, agreed to press for increases in pay for clinical officers in universities (Supplemetnt, October 8, 1960, p. 147). The conflict here is between the University and the Treasury, or so it would seem to a member of the medical profession which has so recently been similarly involved. The Treasury will doubtless prefer the compromise of differential increases for clinical officers to an increase in the basic stipend. On the other hand, the Medical School will suffer if its officers are not paid at levels comparable with those offered by the N.H.S. and by other universities. The University Senate is divided. Not all clinical teachers may agree to differential increases for their colleagues. Some non-clinical teachers appear to support differential payment of clinical officers,