tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post5577761988152575924..comments2024-03-29T13:25:33.439+00:00Comments on A K Haart: Emotional abuseA K Haarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-74082294433235889342014-05-31T17:24:54.648+01:002014-05-31T17:24:54.648+01:00Sam - does education ever climb to the top of the ...Sam - does education ever climb to the top of the agenda? I'm sure it's the jobs for life aspect that drives these things. <br /><br />I saw it in my own field. As things became more bureaucratic, the environment slipped down the agenda.<br /><br />Demetrius - interesting. He could have given us a much more poetic insight into the world of the jobsworth.A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-8592539545858446722014-05-31T16:32:58.920+01:002014-05-31T16:32:58.920+01:00Around fifty years ago for one reason or another I...Around fifty years ago for one reason or another I was around Hull Uni' where Phil was Librarian. For some reason one of his obsessions was car parking. It was the considered opinion of very many of the academics that he had missed his true calling of car parking attendant, these days perhaps traffic wardenDemetriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198549581667363991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-76782441408984856752014-05-30T21:30:47.333+01:002014-05-30T21:30:47.333+01:00I work in Further Education, and "Safeguardin...I work in Further Education, and "Safeguarding" has now become the new religion, trumping even the previous deity of E&D. Saying that something is a "safeguarding issue" guarantees it going to the top of the agenda, and there is even a special team of twenty-something girls with worldly-wise expressions and need-to-know mentalities who patrol the college and disrupt business in the interests of safeguarding.<br /><br />Like E&D,there is a statutory duty on public bodies, so these are jobs for life until some brave government decides it is actually in favour of the un-nameable. Sam Vegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05978971199859845931noreply@blogger.com