UK university staff ‘mental health crisis not getting better’

I have suggested this before and will suggest it again: include staff wellbeing and health as a significant indicator for university rankings. I bet you will see universities being forced to do something about it.

Good idea. Unfortunately, this goes against the ideological convictions of this rag and its various rankings.

And even if you implemented such measures, they would soon be turned into targets with managers finding ever more ingenious ways to game the system and fiddling the numbers (our health Secretary is a case in point). They would also most likely be tempted to crowed out or discriminate against vulnerable groups even more (in order to "produce" better figures). These rankings and the metrics obsession in general are one of the root causes of our current malaise.