Explain how being accountable to various stakeholders and external bodies can have an impact on education and training organisations. Analyse the impact of this for your own curriculum design, delivery and assessment for your particular subject. You could refer to the impacts of accountability e.g. external quality assurance visits and resulting action plans, funding bodies which make a reduction in payments for a particular programme and/or age range, a change of what qualifications and programmes are offered and why (perhaps to meet local employment needs or to gain grants), a change to policies and procedures as a result of external inspections