Background
Bain, George Sayers was born on February 24, 1939. Son of George Alexander and Margaret Ioleen (Bamford) Bain.
Bain, George Sayers was born on February 24, 1939. Son of George Alexander and Margaret Ioleen (Bamford) Bain.
Bachelor with honors, University Manitoba, 1961. Master of Arts, University Manitoba, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford University, 1968.
He was President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen"s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland from 1998 to 2004. He then proceeded to the University of Oxford where he took a Doctorate.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 is a non-executive director of Bombardier Aerospace, Canada Life Group (United Kingdom) Limited, the Canada Life Capital Corporation, Electra Investment Trust Plc and Iain More Associates Limited.
He holds eleven honorary doctorates and was knighted in 2001. Career at Queen"s
Bain"s gregarious and extrovert personality was in marked contrast to the sombre leadership offered by his predecessor Sir Gordon Beveridge.
The latter"s tenure was marked by an acrimonious dispute within, and without the University over symbols and the use of the national anthem at graduations ceremonies.
Perhaps the most public disappointment of his time at the helm of Belfast"s senior university was the failure of the £60 million "Lanyon II" campaign to create a new "student village". His tenure at Queen"s was also notable for a successful fundraising campaign for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre and for a new Library building. Bain was asked to chair a Government-funded in 2002, it was wide-ranging and placed fire and rescue services in the United Kingdom under close scrutiny - it led to 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.
Sir Anthony Young and Professor Sir Michael Lyons co-authored the review.
The Bain Review was presented to the Deputy Prime Minister on 16 December 2002, but a position paper was delivered earlier. 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.".
The self-styled pressure-group "QUB Watch" also kept him under relentless scrutiny over the closure of the Armagh campus, and over what it considered his failure to reduce the number of cases of religious discrimination being taken against the university by members of staff
Married Carol Lynn Ogden White, 1962 (divorced 1987). 2 children; married Frances Gwynneth Rigby, 1988.