{"id":1090,"date":"2019-11-01T13:14:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T13:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2019-12-16T18:48:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T18:48:52","slug":"jute-jam-and-rent-disputes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/11\/01\/jute-jam-and-rent-disputes\/","title":{"rendered":"JUTE, JAM AND RENT DISPUTES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;font-size: 10pt;line-height: normal\">Our former Deputy Vice-Chancellor&#8217;s tenure as Principal of Dundee University continues to go from strength to strength. The following appeared in The Herald on 30 October 2019:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;font-size: 10pt;line-height: normal\">https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/18004372.professor-andrew-atherton-removed-office\/<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;font-size: 10pt;line-height: normal\">According to a Dundee spokesperson, &#8216;Professor Atherton, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, was suspended from office on September 13, pending an investigation which remains to be completed. That process includes an investigation carried out by someone external to the University.&#8217; There will be no further comment from Dundee until the investigation is over.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;font-size: 10pt;line-height: normal\">According to The Courier on 31 October 2019, this could relate to unpaid rent:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;font-size: 10pt;line-height: normal\">https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/news\/local\/dundee\/1010699\/298k-a-year-dundee-university-principal-suspended-for-allegedly-not-paying-rent\/<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New', monospace;font-size: 10pt;line-height: normal\">The Courier understands that, &#8216;Professor Atherton, 53, had been staying at University House on Perth Road but had refused to pay the full amount of rent due on the property.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our former Deputy Vice-Chancellor&#8217;s tenure as Principal of Dundee University continues to go from strength to strength. 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