Already today is proving to be difficult - and it's only lunchtime.
It's all this uncertainty and reluctance to make decisions because no one knows what the future holds here at college.
Three months ago we went into the 90 day consultancy period. We are now at day 87 and the new structure is about to be rolled out in a couple of days. It is now certain that our department is disbanding and those with new roles will be working in other areas of the college, possibly doing something similar but not guaranteed. There are 26 of us here. 4 have out in for voluntary redundancy.
We still have a large apprenticeship programme and several smaller employment programmes to run but don't know who will be running it in the future, nor where it will be run from.
If I retain the role of lecturer I will cartwheel naked around st. James park on the first game of the season. It is likely I could end up as a co-ordinator for a project and on the high end of an administrator scale, but without the holidays and decent pension. But then again I could be made redundant and end up with nothing.
Today I sat in a meeting about the new foundation learning tier being rolled out in post 16 education. Talk about a step backwards. Well three actually. Why do education ministers have to meddle with training? They never give us time to roll out, practice and settle into anything so that it works properly. They allow us to get to the point where we know what works and what doesn't and so we are seeing the benefits and then they come along and bring out something new that was called something else a few years ago.
Everyone here is demotivated, it's not the kind on environment young people want to be in. It's not their fault, they should be entitled to a decent education and training programme, and we want to give them that but at the moment it's like banging your head against a wall with your hands tied behind your back on a one way banana boat to china. (or something like that).
At least it's sunny.
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It's the same all over.Kerry is worried for her job at the Environment agency. I won' be made redundant, but our empty posts aren't beiong filled and more and more workload is piled on us.It's not good. Not good at all.
ReplyDeleteIf you end up cartwheeling naked round St James I will be in the front row ready with a bowl of ready brek, a flask of tea and a warm dressing gown for afterwards. It will be damned nippy. Sorry things are so uncertain and negative at the moment. Hoping for a good outcome for you. At least England won, and as you say, the sun is shining XX
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