Staff development in colleges

The title of this Conference Staff motivation and morale in a static situation is all wrong. We are not in a static situation. Even if numbers and resources remain static — which is unlikely; they could go up or down, and will almost certainly go up — we shall be in a rapidly‐changing situation. For change is, and ought to be, of the essence of education. Part of the trouble is that teachers in HE and FE are not prepared to change fast enough or radically enough. Part of the trouble also is that expectations built up on the back of years of rapid growth and improvement cannot be met, simply because all normal growth has to be exponential anyway.