JOB-CUTTING BOSS JETTED OFF FOR 20 FOREIGN JUNKETS

Globetrotting head on £170k a year slammed over plan to shed 70 jobs 

A GLOBETROTTING college boss racked up more than 20 foreign business trips before backing a staff redundancy scheme. 

Dr Paul Little, principal and chief executive of City of Glasgow College, visited New York, Rome and Vienna as well as going to London dozens of times.

Labour MSP Monica Lennon said: “Constituents have raised concerns with me about spending at this college, so there will be deep concern about job losses after the principal has flown all over the world.”

The college, which has 30,000 students, said cost pressures meant they had to make cuts of £4 million, and around 70 posts are likely to be lost.

A freedom of information request on Little’s foreign business trips has sparked criticism about college spending.

In 2018-19, he travelled to New York for a seven-day trip, Brussels twice, Shanghai, Berlin twice, Budapest and Singapore.