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Report on CAPSA and its implementation: Notice by the Board of Scrutiny

The Board of Scrutiny, the University's internal watchdog involved in commissioning the Report on the implementation of CAPSA, the University's commitment accounting system, welcomes the Report as an authoritative account of CAPSA's history.

The Report points to serious failings at the highest levels. This has adversely affected the way in which the administration has been able to support the academic community.

In many of the disciplines necessary to the satisfactory implementation of an enhanced finance system, the University has renowned academics and it is regrettable that this body of expertise was not more substantially drawn upon.

In its Fifth Report, The Board of Scrutiny alerted the University in June 2000 of its concerns, but publication of our Report was delayed until October 2000, after the decision to activate CAPSA had been taken.

The Report demonstrates the need for strengthening democratic accountability. The commissioning of the Report and our comments as the elected representatives of the Regent House are part of the democratic process and we look forward to constructive debate. The Report answers many questions but raises others: the Board will be seeking answers and publishing its findings and their implications in a report to the Regent House.


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Cambridge University Reporter , 7 November 2001
Copyright © 2001 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.