Having experienced work-related stress at first hand and also being surrounded by lecturers who were just teetering on the edge, I’m familiar with the mindset of educators.
We did a lot of complaining but seemed powerless to change what was happening to us. I’d been a lecturer and manager within a large multicultural, inner city London College for 14 years, feeling battle weary from government initiative overload and yet another organisational restructuring and the conflicting demands of my job.
Looking back now, my low level stress was always evident and it occasionally reached crisis point but I would ride it out and just accepted it as part and parcel of the job.
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