Selwyn Times: October 10, 2017

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Hard-up Lincoln Uni
paid out $72,000 to recruit boss
• By Bridget Rutherford
A CASH-STRAPPED Lincoln
University spent more than
$70,000 recruiting its new vicechancellor,
it can be revealed.
The university paid out
$72,431 to find and hire vicechancellor
Robin Pollard from
England, who was appointed
in January last year while the
institution was facing a $5 million
deficit. Lincoln University
refused
to release the
cost when
asked in
September last
year, citing
commercial
sensitivity.
Robin Pollard
That ruling
was appealed
to the Ombudsman
and Lincoln has now
released the figure.
Chancellor Steve Smith said
yesterday Lincoln was not hiding
Prof Pollard’s recruitment
figure last year.
However, the university
did release the $86,540 cost
of recruiting previous vicechancellor
Andy West, who
resigned in 2015 amid concerns
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REVEALED: Lincoln University has released the cost of
recruiting vice-chancellor Robin Pollard.
he overspent on consultants.
At the time, Lincoln indicated
Prof Pollard’s was less than that.
Last week Mr Smith was
unable to provide a breakdown
of what made up the Pollard
recruitment cost.
Mr Smith said at the time the
“significant interest” was with
Dr West’s appointment, and it
wouldn’t have been appropriate
to release Prof Pollard’s cost
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because he had just started.
“That was in our view an entirely
appropriate figure and in
line with what we would expect.
At that time we certainly needed
someone new, leadership and a
very good person to lead, and it
was important to get someone
to do that.”
Since Prof Pollard started,
Lincoln turned its deficit into a
$17 million surplus in the last
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ON THE DOMAIN LINCOLN 3 MARCH 2018
CheCk out these
year, after staff and course cuts,
restructuring and transferring
its Telford Campus. In comparison,
the recruitment cost for
Otakaro chief executive Albert
Brantley was $108,000, Development
Christchurch spent
$50,332 for boss Rob Hall and
Regenerate Christchurch spent
$42,000 recruiting chief executive
Ivan Iafeta. All released the
costs last year.
Tertiary
Education
Union Lincoln
University
organiser Jo
McLean said
the recruitment
cost was “not
ideal”, but she Andy West
did not know
what the market rate was.
“One would have hoped
they would have done it in a
financially-prudent way taking
into account the financial situation.”
Dr West resigned two years
short of his five-year contract
amid concerns he spent too
much on consultants. Lincoln
spent $146,971 on legal fees and
a “last day of duty” payment to
Dr West to end his time there.
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Tapu was reported incorrectly in
Selwyn Times last week. The fashion
show will be held on Thursday,
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