Board of Governors

The Board of Governors is responsible for overseeing the 쮸떴눈첵AV's activities, determining its future direction, ensuring its solvency and the effective use of its resources.

It conducts its affairs in an open and transparent manner. As well as taking the final decisions on all matters of fundamental concern to the 쮸떴눈첵AV, the Board of Governors has ultimate responsibility for ensuring that it complies with all its legal and regulatory obligations.

The Roles and responsibilities of Board Officers are as agreed by the Board.

The primary responsibilities of the Board of Governors are as follows:

To approve the mission and strategic vision of the 쮸떴눈첵AV, long-term academic and business plans and key performance indicators, and to ensure that these meet the interests of stakeholders.
To delegate authority to the Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive for the academic, corporate, financial, estate and human resource management of the 쮸떴눈첵AV. And to establish and keep under regular review the policies, procedures and limits within such management functions as shall be undertaken by and under the authority of the Vice Chancellor.
To ensure the establishment and monitoring of systems of control and accountability, including financial and operational controls and risk assessment, and procedures for handling internal grievances and for managing conflicts of interest.
To ensure processes are in place to monitor and evaluate the performance and effectiveness of the 쮸떴눈첵AV against the plans and approved key performance indicators, which should be, where possible and appropriate, benchmarked against other comparable institutions.
To establish processes to monitor and evaluate the performance and effectiveness of the Governing Body itself.
To conduct its business in accordance with best practice in higher education corporate governance and with the principles of public life drawn up by the Committee on Standards in Public Life.
To safeguard the good name and values of the 쮸떴눈첵AV.
To oversee and monitor the quality of the student experience.
To appoint the Vice Chancellor as chief executive and to put in place suitable arrangements for monitoring his or her performance.
To appoint a secretary to the Governing Body and to ensure that, if the person appointed has managerial responsibilities in the 쮸떴눈첵AV, there is an appropriate separation in the lines of accountability.
To be the employing authority for all staff in the 쮸떴눈첵AV and to be responsible for establishing a human resources strategy.
To ensure that the 쮸떴눈첵AV provides equality and diversity of opportunity for staff and students.
To oversee and monitor the academic governance of the 쮸떴눈첵AV
To ensure the solvency of the 쮸떴눈첵AV and the safeguarding of its assets, to be the principal financial and business authority of the 쮸떴눈첵AV, to ensure that proper books of account are kept and to approve the annual budget and financial statements.
Ensure that the Instrument and Articles of Government are followed at all times and that advice to available to ensure this happens

Membership of the Board of Governors

Our Board of Governors is made up of:

not less than twelve and not more than twenty-four members
the Vice Chancellor
one professional staff member
elected academic staff representative
two Student Union representatives
representative of the Academic Board

Meet our governors

Our current governors have all made notable contributions to business, academic and public life. They contribute their professional, specialist and general management skills to drive the development of the 쮸떴눈첵AV.