A very distasteful symptom of a ridiculously over-regulated education system. The way university departments are graded is equally nonsensical as the quality of research, especially in the Humanities, can't be quantified, but the dumb oafs don't get it.
I pity you teachers with this sword hanging over your heads wielded by the pompous and the would-be powerful who long ago, in most cases, lost their q1ualifications to be judging good teaching.