Recourse

We help all staff in Higher and Further education

Recourse is here to offer you practical and emotional support if you are experiencing problems in your work or home life
We provide free support services specifically for all staff working in adult, further and higher education. Supported by UCU, Recourse complements the work of the union
They were very kind and helpful and donated this money with the minimum of fuss and red tape. I now feel less anxious about my situation and far more hopeful

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Join TSN and Recourse for a summer evening of dinner and dancing on the Thames - and help us raise £5,000 to support staff in education.
Education professionals work an extra 11 hours a week on average, research has shown, coming second in a top ten list of occupations most likely to work unpaid overtime.
This year, we want to help even more people, but we want to make sure that we are helping them in the right way. So we thought we’d ask the experts - you.
This year we are hosting two understanding and managing stress sessions for individuals at our head office in London on Saturday 20 April.
When one of our media volunteers Dewi George graduated from university, he thought like many that he would find work relatively quickly. It took him over a year. Here he tells his experiences of being unemployed and gives his tips for others in his situation on how to find work.
Pressures on staff are huge with more and more pressure for accountability and performance management. Sometimes these pressures are unreasonable and lead to stress. This is a major problem in the sector.
"Staff are under enormous demands to satisfy the demands of line managers since the introduction of management structures in universities, that were once thought of as a community of scholars and teachers."
'Imagine being in the shower with someone repeatedly throwing mud over your head every time you finish washing. That is what living with OCD feels like'. By Olivia Bamber
Education staff want just as much support with their day-to-day lives as they do for their professional careers. This is the news that Recourse and its sister charity Teacher Support Network revealed as they launched a new range of services today.
As A Level students prepare to open their exam results, tutors are bracing themselves for an outpouring of emotion, from their students, and judgment about their teaching performance, from their managers, the media and the public.

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Join TSN and Recourse for a summer evening of dinner and dancing on the Thames - and help us raise £5,000 to support staff in education.
Post date: Thursday 11 April 2013
Education professionals work an extra 11 hours a week on average, research has shown, coming second in a top ten list of occupations most likely to work unpaid overtime.
Post date: Tuesday 26 March 2013
This year, we want to help even more people, but we want to make sure that we are helping them in the right way. So we thought we’d ask the experts - you.
Post date: Monday 18 March 2013