Accountability at the University of Oxford

Accountability at the University of Oxford
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Accountability refers to the obligation an individual or organization has on accounting for all its activities, accepts all obligations for them, and share the results openly (Sinclair, 1995). Additionally, accountability also comprises the responsibility for coinage or other assigned property. In the United Kingdom, all universities, irrespective of whether they are public or private university should be accountable. However, the big question lingers as to whom, for what and how should these universities be accountable. Essentially, accountability may assume different approached, and as far as this discussion is concerned, there are three main levels of accountability, including social accountability, corporate accountability, and public accountability. All the levels above only show to whom, for what and how the University of Oxford, in this case, ensures that it meets all its responsibilities on accountability from to the society.
The governance of the University of Oxford ensures there is corporate accountability in the university. Cooperate accountability refers to the action of taking responsibility to all the stakeholders of an organization CITATION Stu07 \l 1033 (Cooper, 2007). The stakeholders usually include students, professors and other university employees, the community and the country. Corporate accountability is achieved through the various organs in the university which execute varying roles that promote the common good of the university. These organs include the congregation, council, college, and departments. Moreover, there are other divisions such as that of the Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors, and Pro-Vice-Chancellors who perform their respective duties which promote accountability in the university CITATION Uni18 \l 1033 (University of Oxford, 2018).
The University of Oxford has a congregation which acts as the university’s parliament hence the sovereign body with more than five thousand members CITATION Uni18 \l 1033 (University of Oxford, 2018). Some of its members are the academic staff, administrative staff, senior researchers, computing and library staff. Furthermore, the academic staff has heads of governing collage bodies as well as other members working on the same. The congregation has various responsibilities which include: determining whether the university should change its statutes and regulations. It is also involved in analyzing and determining whether implementing various policy issues, which have been submitted by congregation members or the council, is going to be beneficial to the university. Frequently the congregation also elects members to the council as well as to other University bodies CITATION Uni18 \l 1033 (University of Oxford, 2018). Also, the congregation is entrusted with the responsibility of approving or rejecting the nomination of the Vice-Chancellor.
The University of Oxford has a policy-making body which is the council. It is the chief decision-making body in the university and has twenty-eight members and four of them being non-members of the university CITATION Uni18 \l 1033 (University of Oxford, 2018). It is accountable for everything that revolves around the ...