Is Distance Learning Programme A Panancea for Stressed Working Students?

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According to a Guardian survey, academics with mental health problems hold responsible university work for their illness. 

Heavy workloads, isolation, and lack of support are the main factors causing mental illness, say respondents, who range from PhD students to vice-chancellors. 

Exclusively targeting academic suffering mental illness, the Guardian survey revealed that about two-thirds of above 2,500 respondents think that university task pressure is the direct cause of their illness.Senior lecturers and others between the age group of 55 and 64 think strongly about this linkage.

More than half of academic from the UK and overseas feel a heavy workload has affected their mental health. Among other factors, a lack of support has affected 44% of respondents from the 25-64 years of age group.

Around half of respondents raise concerns about the isolation they feel while undertaking the course, whereas others blame bullying culture, long working hours and job insecurity for their mental problems.

The Guardian survey hoists fresh concerns on the mental conditions of university staff, and their work culture.

According to National Figures in 2012, about one in 500 faculty members (0.2%) disclosed their mental illness to their university. It also discovered a split between different ages and types of UK institution.

 

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Unreasonable demands by management

Feeling of isolation is generally high among PhD student, around 64%, and those between the 18 to 34 years. On the other hand, senior lecturers and those above 45 years blame unreasonable demands from management for their state of mental health.

Rosie Miles, senior lecturer in English at the University of Wolverhampton, says,

"As 21st century academics, the expectations on us are, in effect, impossible. It is simply not possible at any one time to research effectively, teach well, deal with endless administrative demands, put in major grant bids, be permanently available to students, mark (often lots of) work and have some kind of sensible, balanced work-life ratio. Something has to give, and sometimes what can give is an academic's sense of her or his own worth and value."

Distance Learning Diploma Program is a panacea for stressed working students

 

Mental health problems are also quite common among the working students. A number of working professionals, who are enrolled in management programmes, report mental health problems to the universities or at their workplace.

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Online distance learning could prove to be of greater help to such students in fighting off intricate mental illness. They can pursue online management programmes from some of the well-known online business schools.

The best thing about online postgraduate or undergraduate management diploma programmes is that future or current employers consider them equivalent to the regular or traditional degrees and do not differentiate between the degree holders.

So, if you want to stay free from the mental health problems, consider enrolling in online courses for a lucrative career ahead. There are several postgraduate as well as undergraduate diploma programmes being offered by eminent universities, you can choose to enrol in one.

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