The bottom line of assessment

U-ARSE stands, of course, for University Annual Review System of Evaluation.

The academic who devised it has even supplied The Times Higher with an example of how the system might work.

Under the heading Reviewee's evaluation of contribution in the last year , a research technician might put:

"Performed many a great experiment to maximise result potential and published to precipitate knowledge transfer amongst worldwide collaborators in the global know-how bank of academia."