Rate this, rate that, rate everything
Following the outstanding success of Rate Your Lecturer, which has been overwhelmingly endorsed by right-thinking academics everywhere, it’s time to broaden the assessment. Due to extraordinary demand therefore we are now launching Rate Your Administrator.
RYA is the site that finally gives users of a range of administrative services and processes a say. RYA is essentially a giant thing with words written on it – so instead of hoping a friend knows how good an administrator is you can visit this site and see reviews put up by other admin fans whilst adding your own. This is the only way to improve administration in the UK whilst holding your administrators to account. Please do take a couple of minutes to add your thoughts on the hot administrative topics that really matter to you.
The starting point for the site is the administrator ratings kindly provided by you, the user of administrative services. Each administrator is rated out of ten on each of the following criteria:
- core administrative ability
- nice smile
- out of hours email response time
- dress sense
- patience
- grammatical skills
- resilience in the face of adversity
- tendency to obfuscate.
Once this has been done the administrator is attached to the admin activity that they are being rated for. This is the most important part for the discerning admin user and it is the area which can help to revolutionise universities in this country. Be it minute-writing, HR, planning or just any kind of admin-related activity then you get the chance to see who is best at what.
Crucially, the admin activities page will enable prospective admin users picking their universities to compare administrators on their administrative ability, something that has never been possible before.
The site has received almost unanimous support from both people who have discovered it. So come on – rate your administrator now!
Next up – Rate your parking place.
Hilarious!
No rating for biscuits in meetings?
Too closely aligned to institutional wealth rather than admin performance
Disagree (respectfully, of course). Influencing skills to persuade registrar to fund at time of economic austerity, as well as political acuity in knowing what it takes to smooth the path of academic business. Alternatively, take committee off on awayday to bake biscuits (team building) or invite charitable donations for donated baked goods (public engagement).
Is there a rating for ferocity?