BRITAIN’S highest-paid university boss has been slammed after she quit her controversial £468,000-a-year role for an academic job paying £1,800 a day.

Prof Dame Glynis Breakwell, 66, steps down tomorrow as Bath University’s vice chancellor after protests from staff and students.

But she will be kept on at full pay until next February to complete a research project.

Dame Glynis will earn £235,000, around £1,807 a day, for the sabbatical.

Dr Michael Carley, President of Bath University and College Union, insisted: “The fact that she is being paid like a vice chancellor but not doing the job is, quite frankly, a disgrace.

“There is nothing meaningful about doing a sabbatical during a time when you are retiring.”

Labour councillor Joe Rayment said: “It is absolutely outrageous.

“She has been awarded what is essentially this giant golden handshake and it is a slap in the face to all the students paying £9,000 a year in university fees.”

A string of bumper pay rises, including a £45,000 hike for 2015/16, made Dame Glynis the UK’s best-paid university chief. She also received perks including living rent-free in a £1.6million Georgian townhouse in the city.

A Freedom of Information request showed she claimed £20,000 in expenses for the property.

This included £8,738 on a housekeeper.

And she was also given an interest-free loan of more than £31,000 to spend on a car.

A spokesman for Bath University said that Dame Glynis would be involved in “several research projects” over the next six months.