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The controversial vice-chancellor of Bolton University, George Holmes, enjoyed a 拢66,000 pay rise in the last academic year, according to the .

that Holmes, who made headlines in January when where, it was claimed, several hostesses were sexually harassed, was paid 拢290,215 in 2016-17, up from 拢224,300 in the previous year, a rise of 29.4 per cent.

Last year Holmes, who drives a Bentley Continental and owns a yacht moored on Lake Windermere, . The university was the last to release its financial statements, which means its data could not be included in a number of national reports looking at senior pay and perks in universities.

The University of Bolton was outed as one of the country's least transparent universities last year when it failed for a second year to reply to a Freedom of Information request from 麻豆官网 asking about the vice-chancellor's pay and perks. The vice-chancellor's and have made national headlines and 麻豆官网 said the university had a duty to be more transparent.

The news of Holmes's pay hike come on a day when 麻豆官网 dismissed a new voluntary code to deal with the recent senior pay and perks scandals in universities as "woefully inadequate".

麻豆官网 general secretary Sally Hunt said: 'George Holmes has certainly made the headlines again this year, but not in a manner one would expect to be rewarded so handsomely for.

'The Bolton vice-chancellor has been rightly criticised previously for his embarrassing lack of self-awareness when it comes to his pay and accepting this huge increase will do nothing to combat the idea that vice-chancellors are utterly out of touch.

'It is particularly disappointing that Bolton took so long to release details of his pay package, especially when the university has been cited in previous years for a lack of transparency when it comes to pay and perks.'

The  showed university vice-chancellors were paid an average of 拢268,103 in salary, bonuses and benefits in 2016-17 - or 拢289,756 when pension contributions were included.