by LifeEditor | Mar 14, 2024 | news
It’s hard for students to have a good day if educators are having a bad one. Improving staff wellbeing and mental health is an important issue in and of itself. Yet, recent research indicates that university staff have higher levels of stress and burnout than...
by LifeEditor | Jan 12, 2024 | news
Silos… leading to ISOL-ation. UK universities and business schools structured so that departments isolate and feel ‘specialised’, or are so absorbed in research pursuits that they have no time or interest in anyone else. Leading to professional imbalance...
by LifeEditor | Nov 12, 2023 | news
Diwali – The Festival of Lights celebrated on the Oct/Nov new moon, and especially by faiths in India. Yet should every day not be a Festival of Lights in Higher Education? A day where the lights of student souls are ignited, and where their hopes and dreams are...
by LifeEditor | Sep 26, 2023 | news
If we want to genuinely do good in this world, then we must first achieve a constant healthy state of mental and emotional wellbeing. It will be an uphill struggle otherwise. Sometimes a responsibility lands in our lap, as it did of the late Queen Elizabeth II. Or you...
by LifeEditor | May 2, 2023 | news
A source of upliftment for those of us who have huge interest and deep concern for wellbeing within UK tertiary education is an article published by Wonkhe 24 April 2023 entitled Even in turbulent times the OIA can practise kindness in adjudicating complaints. Written...
