Sink or Swim: Teachers’ Stress Coping Mechanisms in a South African School

Life vest: sink or swim.

Occupational disability on psychiatric grounds in South African school-teachers.

OBJECTIVE School-teachers are exposed to high levels of stress and have high rates of premature retirement on psychiatric grounds. This study investigated factors associated with occupational disability due to psychiatric disorders in teachers in South Africa. METHOD This retrospective study investigated 81 school-teachers in the Cape Town area who had been declared permanently medically disa...

Job Satisfaction and Stress Coping Skills of Primary School Teachers

Sources of Stress: Perceptions of South African TESOL Teachers

This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study investigating which factors inside and outside the classroom result in feelings of stress for TESOL teachers working at private language schools in South Africa. Using in-depth semi-structured interviews, the findings reveal three main areas that cause stress for TESOL teachers: the job of teaching, relationships at work and organisational...

A sea of standards for omics data: sink or swim?

In the era of Big Data, omic-scale technologies, and increasing calls for data sharing, it is generally agreed that the use of community-developed, open data standards is critical. Far less agreed upon is exactly which data standards should be used, the criteria by which one should choose a standard, or even what constitutes a data standard. It is impossible simply to choose a domain and have i...