Validation of MSc Chiropractic (Small Animals)

Thank you for your message and request under the Freedom of Information Act, the receipt of which I hereby acknowledge.

I will respond appropriately in due course.

Owen Parry
Pennaeth y Gwasanaethu Gwybodaeth/Head of Information Services
Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales
Tel: (029) 2037 6999  Ffacs/Fax: (029) 2037 6980

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I do apologise - I have unexpected been out of the office. I have assembled quite a corpus of material that is in electronic format but I have also just been informed that there is material on paper that may be relevant and I am awaiting further information on this.

I will forward a response with the electronic materials immediately. Paper materials can be copied and sent but the University is permitted to levy a charge for the photocopying (5p per A4 page) so I will need to provide you with a schedule of content so you can select any items you require.

Owen Parry
Pennaeth Gwasanaethau Gwybodaeth / Head of Information Services
Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales
+44 29 2037 6999

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Further to your request under the Freedom of Information Act, I am able to supply the following materials:

Programme specification and amendments
Key Skills mapping
Assessors' comments
Validation report
Staff Organisation chart
CVs of teaching staff

As previously mentioned, I believe there to be other documents in paper format, of which I will send you a list today.

Owen Parry
Pennaeth Gwasanaethau Gwybodaeth / Head of Information Services
Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales
+44 29 2037 6999

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Further to our recent correspondenceon this, I list below the items that are held only in paper format:

1. Agenda and papers for Validation Event 20/06/07 including
Agenda paper
Chairman's Notes/Questions
Proposal Document for MSc Chiropratic (Small Animals)*
Programme Specification *
Course Document
Copies of emails concerning the event and the selection of the name of course
Copies of Key Skills Mapping, Staff Cvs*
Clinical Evaluation Module
Student Project Handbook
Student Handbook
Approval Form for the membership of the Panel

* items already provided electronically

Approximately 300 pages in total

2. Response from McTimoney to the conditions and recommendations following the Validation Event

Approximately 80 pages in total

3. Post-validation Correspondence including the confirmation that conditions are met and that the University will proceed to an agreement for the validation of the course.

Approximately 20 pages

Should you wish to receive copies of this material, the University will charge 5p per A4 page and any postage and packing charges.

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Thank you for your reply. Indeed the University does have a scanner and I can arrange for the documents to be scanned.

However, the University is allowed to charge for the cost of communicating the information to an enquirer and we would therefore wish to make a charge for the staff time spent scanning the papers, at the same rate as for photocopying.

As this is the first time that this has come up, I have taken the opportunity to make enquiries with the ICO as to whether my interpretation of their own advice e is correct and if such a charge is acceptable. Until such a time as they respond, I can only invite you to agree to pay the fee and I will provide the materials. Should the ICO rule against us, I will happily refund the fee.

Please let me know if you wish me to proceed.

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My colleague who deals with this scheme has now responded to your specific enquiry concerning the Validation criteria as follows:

"The list of criteria was only introduced into the Quality handbook last year and would be used by Health Studies Committee/TVDB when judging at the initial vetting stage whether an application could proceed, so this validation would not have gone through that process."

She has indicated that there is no specific location for such information within schemes which have not been validated since the introduction of the criteria.

Owen Parry
Pennaeth Gwasanaethau Gwybodaeth / Head of Information Services
Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales
+44 29 2037 6999

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