Dr. Graham Love:

I made this important point last year. When allegations or matters are raised, it is very important that each institution has the capacity to carry out a good governance process, which can properly be viewed as independent, to help the institution to reach a satisfactory conclusion. If all allegations like this have to be outsourced to an independent body - ourselves or some other body - the process of self-investigation will not develop within institutions and this will affect their competence to regulate and govern themselves. An outside body or a set of outside bodies should be able to go a step further when that is needed. When allegations like these are raised, I would be concerned if the institution could simply step back and say it has to be tossed over to somebody else.