The need to do more with less is driving the mental health crisis

Having watch the transformation of a caring 'personnel' department into (In)Human Resources, along with the appointment of a failed in the 'real world' director of HR whose main attribute was being an 'agent for change', and very anti Trade Unions, the images of gears in heads in the related articles is also how we, the student facing teaching, research and support staff, are now seen. Little more than cogs in the university machine, to be used, abused and when worn out replaced with a newer, cheaper and often less resilient cog freshly turned out by another university machine. A contact who visits Cardiff Uni commented that the "suicide stairwell" as it's now known is well named, how long before all the wonderful waste of space University building atria and stairwells have to be fitted with 'safety netting' like the prisons, to prevent suicide on the premises across the UK?