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Common Purpose expenditure and invoices by British universities with focus on the University of Portsmouth.
Richard Smith made this Freedom of Information request to Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
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From: Richard Smith
20 July 2008
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please detail total expenditure by British Universities, with
detailed focus on University of Portsmouth, on Common Purpose
courses for each of the following years: 2006, 2007 and 2008 to
date.
Please also supply a copy of the invoice for each Common Purpose
course paid by said universities in those years.
By "Common Purpose", I mean the training organisation of that name:
http://www.commonpurpose.org/home.aspx
By Common Purpose "graduate", I refer to a specific class of person
who has passed the advanced Common Purpose courses."
This information will help me enormously with my dissertation.
Thank you very much.
Yours faithfully,
Richard Smith
Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
21 July 2008
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Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
5 August 2008
Dear Mr Smith
Thank you for your email of 20 July, addressed to the DIUS, Information
mailbox, about Common Purpose expenditure and invoices by British
universities.
We do not hold the data you are wanting. I suggest you look at the HESA
website at [1]http://www.hesa.ac.uk/. If the website does not have the
data you are wanting then I understand it is not collected.
I hope this is helpful to you.
Yours sincerely
Sandra Wright
Public Communications Unit
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