Nevertheless, most universities accept the need for more and speedier action, if only we could find and pay for the therapists. How can we change the way we, in universities and schools, teach or assess work to reduce stress and anxiety? Everything must be measured: how mimicking business taints universities | Jonathan Wolff Read moreFor a junior scholar this can be career suicide. Finally, and perhaps most consequentially, the higher education sector needs to step up to accept and fulfil its role as a central pillar of civil society. UK universities need to be ready to defend not only themselves but the hard-won institutions that make a strong, relatively free university sector possible.

Source: The Guardian January 07, 2020 06:45 UTC