Jo Johnson, the universities and science minister, has defended tuition fees but attacked vice-chancellors' pay.
Mr Johnson will today set out how he expects universities in England to deliver better value for money in return for the ability to charge tuition fees. He is expected to demand that institutions that pay their vice-chancellors more than £150,000 (Theresa May’s salary is £143,000) must justify the remuneration to the Office for Students. He is also due to outline the next stage of the teaching excellence framework: a new metric to assess teaching at the individual subject level.
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