Information on gap year company 'Frontier'

Joshua Carroll made this Freedom of Information request to City University London

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From: Joshua Carroll

22 January 2010

Dear City University, London,

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would be
grateful for details of the University's dealings - if any - with
the following companies:

The Society for Environmental Exploration (Operating as 'Frontier')

Frontier Ltd (sister company to the above)

The former company sells overseas volunteer projects to gap year
and university students, the latter company provides marketing
services to the former.

I would like to know of any correspondence between either of the
companies and the university and if possible I would like to read
it. I would also like to know if any representatives from Frontier
have visited the university to speak at any public events such as
conferences, careers fairs etc or if there are any plans for this
to happen.

I would also be very grateful if you could find out whether or not
the university has any kind of business relationship with Frontier.
In particular, does the university facilitate marketing and
advertising for Frontier, (for example, posters, advertisements in
emails or letters to students, links on websites etc.)

I would be very grateful for your help

Yours faithfully,

Joshua Carroll

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From: Kinglake, Andrew
City University London

18 February 2010

Dear Mr Carroll

Freedom of Information Act Request

Further to your request for information about Frontier and the Society for Environmental Exploration (SEE) in your email below, the Centre for Career & Skills Development at City University London was approached by Frontier several years ago to help them organise a presentation on campus for students. As we don’t usually work with organisations that charge students for their services, we decided not to progress.

We no longer hold copies of the information relating to this approach. There is no formal business relationship between the University and Frontier

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Yours sincerely

Andrew Kinglake
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