George Bain (academic): Difference between revisions

| office = 10th<br>[[List of Vice-Chancellors of Queen's University Belfast|President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast]]

| successor = [[Peter Gregson|Sir Peter Gregson]]

| predecessor3 = ''new office''

| successor3 = [[Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell|The Lord Turner of Ecchinswell]]

| birthname =

| citizenship = [[Canadians|Canadian]] and [[British people|British]]

| alma_mater = [[University of Manitoba]]<br />[[University of Oxford]]

| occupation = [[University administrator]], [[industrial relations]] professor, [[railway]] worker

'''Sir George Sayers Bain''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSA|CCMI|FBAM}} (born 24 February 1939) is a [[British people|British]]-[[Canadians|Canadian]] academic. He was [[University President|President]] and [[Vice-Chancellor]] of [[Queen's University of Belfast|Queen's University, Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]] from 1998 to 2004.<ref name=appoint>[http://www.irfs.org.uk/about.htm "About the Independent Review and its Chair"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060502050546/http://www.irfs.org.uk/about.htm |date=2 May 2006 }} www.irfs.org.uk, retrieved 2 May 2006</ref><ref name=retire>[http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/TheUniversity/GeneralServices/News/ArchivesPressReleases-CampusNews/2004PressReleases/01-2004PressReleases/#vc1 "Queen's appoints new Vice-Chancellor"] Queen's University Belfast press release, 2004</ref>

Bain was born and brought up in [[Winnipeg|Winnipeg, Manitoba]], Canada.<ref name="THE - In the news: Sir George Bain">{{cite news|title=In the news: Sir George Bain|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/in-the-news-sir-george-bain/172542.article|accessdate=22 February 2014|newspaper=Times Higher Education|date=25 October 2002}}</ref> He was educated at [[Miles Macdonell Collegiate]]. He studied economics and political science at the [[University of Manitoba]]. He then proceeded to the [[University of Oxford]] where he took a [[Doctor of Philosophy|D.Phil.]] in industrial relations.

Bain began his academic career at [[Nuffield College, Oxford]]; the [[University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology]]; the [[University of Warwick]], where he was Chairman of the School of Industrial and Business Studies between 1983 and 1989; and finally the [[London Business School]], where he was Principal between 1989 and 1997.

He was a member of the [[Report of the committee of inquiry on industrial democracy|Committee of Inquiry into Industrial Democracy]] chaired by [[Lord Bullock]] in 1976-7, of the [[Senior Salaries Review Body]] during 1993-6, and was Chairman of the [[Low Pay Commission]] during 1997-2002, the Work and Parents Taskforce in 2001, and the [[Independent Review of the Fire Service]] in 2002.

He is a non-executive director of [[Bombardier Aerospace]], Canada Life Group (UK) Ltd, the Canada Life Capital Corporation, Electra Investment Trust Plc and Iain More Associates Ltd.

Bain was asked to chair a Government-funded [[Independent Review of the Fire Service]] in 2002, it was wide-ranging and placed fire and rescue services in the UK under close scrutiny - it led to [[UK Firefighter strike 2002|strike action by fire-fighters]], shortly before the report's publication, although the FBU and fire and rescue services had been in tense negotiations for a year before. [[Anthony Young, Baron Young of Norwood Green|Sir Anthony Young]] and Professor Sir Michael Lyons co-authored the review. The Bain Review was presented to the [[Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Deputy Prime Minister]] on 16 December 2002,<ref name=Bainreview>[http://www.irfs.org.uk "Independent Review of the Fire Service"], www.irfs.org.uk, retrieved 2 May 2006</ref> but a position paper was delivered earlier.<ref name=position>[http://www.irfs.org.uk/news/111102.htm "Independent Review publishes position paper"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060505021232/http://www.irfs.org.uk/news/111102.htm |date=5 May 2006 }}, www.irfs.org.uk, retrieved 2 May 2006</ref> Sir George said "Taking into account the very generous pension entitlement, the holiday arrangements, the good job security, firemen are actually not badly rewarded. The recruitment and retention figures back this up. There's about 40 applications for every vacancy in the fire service."<ref name=BBC>[http://212.58.226.61/2/hi/uk_news/2439391.stm "Fire union condemns 'insulting' pay deal"]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, BBC news web site, retrieved 2 May 2006</ref>

* [[Fire Service in the UK]]

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