SIR,—The article by Sir Compton Mackenzie in your issue of
January 15th does well to draw attention to the fact that the grievances of schoolteachers extend also to University staffs.
What is not generally appreciated, however, is that there are many University teachers (like myself) who earn considerably less than the minimum to which they would be entitled on the existing Burnham scale.
And do your older readers appreciate the fact that for a net wage of basely £8 a week I may be teaching and examining their sons and daughters at Honours level ?
Unless the salaries of junior University teachers are substantially raised there is the danger that only persons with private means or prospect of inheritance will be able to consider entering the profession.—Yours faithfully,
" BOURNE RICHARDS "
[Name and address supplied.]
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