Times Higher Education magazine quotes QoWL 2007/2008 benchmark report

As part of an article looking at the quality of working life in UK Universities, the THE magazine - the premier UK weekly publication for university staff, quotes figures from a recent QoWL Ltd survey which sampled 10 universities.

The Times Higher quotes:

"A survey of 6,000 staff at ten universities published this week by Quality of Working Life (QoWL), a company spun off from the University of Portsmouth, found that 66 per cent of respondents were happy with their working conditions, compared with 58 per cent of National Health Service workers. But only 56 per cent of university staff said they were content with their job and their prospects at work, compared with 60 per cent of NHS staff.

"QoWL found that satisfaction with working conditions varied by 24 per cent between high and low-scoring universities.

"Academic staff tended to report higher stress, lower job satisfaction and a poorer work-life balance than other occupational groups, says the QoWL report, Benchmarking Quality of Working Life in UK Universities 2007-08."

On-line version of the article.