Vanbrugh Paradise Corner
This week: all eight College Administrators speak out over porters
The College Administrators would like to share their vision with you:
A College where you are greeted at Reception by the smiling face of a porter you have come to know and trust - someone who knows who you are and can sort out your problems or give advice. Someone who can welcome visitors, give directions, answer questions, orientate strangers, and generally make you feel at home. Someone you can turn to in time of need and who makes you feel secure in your “home”.
The College Porter plays a key role in the College Team - when s/he goes missing, we all suffer. Too many service groups, academic departments, students and visitors now find themselves at a loss on too many occasions.
To restore efficient service, we need to reinstate Porters on a local basis. The person who has built up knowledge of his/her College over the years needs to be allowed to find their way back home. We are a College Team. This is where we find our identity. This is where we can be most valuable and this is where we should be most valued. We are not cogs in a machine. It doesn’t work like that - as the current situation proves.
We trust that the stresses caused by the current untenable state of affairs will be speedily reviewed and a new understanding of the importance of the College Team recognised and implemented without delay. Where there’s a will there must be a way.
Sheila Ashton Alcuin
Chris Unwin Derwent
Gill Macdonald Goodricke
Sally Brabyn Halifax
Sarah Doughty James
Suzanne Dekker Langwith
Georgina Heath Vanbrugh
Sue Lister Wentworth
