Veterinary Medicine & Surgery Degree (5 year) Course Entry Data

The request was refused by University of Edinburgh.

Dear University of Edinburgh,

Regarding student places for “Veterinary Medicine & Surgery Degree (5 year)” course:

Can you provide the following data for entry to the above course, past 5 years.

1. Numbers of places available, interviewed, offered/ declined and accepted with corresponding A levels* & UKCAT points:

a. Scottish students

b. Rest of UK students

c. EU students

d. Students from out with EU

*Additionally can you provide a breakdown of A Level/ Higher results including resit or remarked papers for students accepting a place.

Yours faithfully,

Bill Brady
Kirkcaldy
Fife

Records Management, University of Edinburgh

Dear Mr Brady

Thank you for your email of 12 September 2018 requesting information about
BVM&S (5 year) course entry data.

I am writing to let you know that we have received your request and will
process it as soon as reasonably possible, and hope to reply by 10 October
2018.  However, we are currently experiencing an exceptionally high volume
of requests and staff shortages.  We will do our utmost to respond within
20 working days but wanted to alert you to the potential that this may not
be possible. 

The University of Edinburgh's privacy notice, which describes how we use
the information you have supplied about yourself and your request, is
available on-line at
[1]https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management/....

Yours sincerely

Eleanor Rideout

Information Compliance Officer

Records Management Section

The University of Edinburgh | Old College | South Bridge | Edinburgh | EH8
9YL

 

Telephone: 0131 650 9821

Email: [2][University of Edinburgh request email]

Website: [3]http://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management

 

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland,
with registration number SC005336.

 

 

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Dear Records Management,

In accordance with the law your department should have responded promptly. Please can you respond and advise accordingly.

Yours sincerely,

Bill Brady

Dear University of Edinburgh,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of University of Edinburgh's handling of my FOI request 'Veterinary Medicine & Surgery Degree (5 year) Course Entry Data'.

By law, under all circumstances, the authority should have responded by now.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/v...

Yours faithfully,

Bill Brady

Records Management, University of Edinburgh

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Dear Mr Brady

Thank you for your email of 12 September 2018 requesting information about
BVM&S (5 year) course entry data, and your request for review of 9
November 2018. I apologise for the lateness of this response.

The University of Edinburgh's privacy notice, which describes how we use
the information you have supplied about yourself and your request, is
available on-line at
[1]https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management/....

Yours sincerely

Eleanor Rideout

Information Compliance Officer

Records Management Section

The University of Edinburgh | Old College | South Bridge | Edinburgh | EH8
9YL

 

Telephone: 0131 650 9821

Email: [2][University of Edinburgh request email]

Website: [3]http://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management

 

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland,
with registration number SC005336.

 

References

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1. https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management/...
2. mailto:[University of Edinburgh request email]
3. http://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management

Dear University of Edinburgh,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of University of Edinburgh's handling of my FOI request 'Veterinary Medicine & Surgery Degree (5 year) Course Entry Data'.

You are long overdue, can you advise before I proceed with a referral to the information commissioner?

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/v...

Yours faithfully,

Bill Brady

Records Management, University of Edinburgh

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Dear Mr Brady

Thank you for your message of 19 November 2018 following up your email of
12 September 2018 requesting information about BVM&S (5 year) course entry
data, and your request for review of 9 November 2018.

Your response was sent on 15 November 2018 – I have reattached the letter
to this email.  I apologise again for the lateness of this response.

The University of Edinburgh's privacy notice, which describes how we use
the information you have supplied about yourself and your request, is
available on-line at
[1]https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management/....

Yours sincerely

Eleanor Rideout

Information Compliance Officer

Records Management Section

The University of Edinburgh | Old College | South Bridge | Edinburgh | EH8
9YL

 

Telephone: 0131 650 9821

Email: [2][University of Edinburgh request email]

Website: [3]http://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management

 

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland,
with registration number SC005336.

 

References

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1. https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management/...
2. mailto:[University of Edinburgh request email]
3. http://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management

Bill Brady left an annotation ()

I have requested that the Information Commissioner investigate this FOI.

Our Ref 201802042

23 November 2018

Dear Mr Brady

Application for Decision by the Scottish Information Commissioner
Public Authority: University of Edinburgh

Thank you for your email of 19 November 2018, applying for a decision from the Scottish Information Commissioner about the way in which University of Edinburgh dealt with your information request.

Your application will now be passed to our Validation Team to check. There are various legal requirements which must be fulfilled before the Commissioner has the power to conduct an investigation. If an application is wrongly validated, the Commissioner would have no power to investigate or to enforce a decision (e.g. to order a public authority to disclose information). The process of validation sometimes requires extensive correspondence with applicants to collate the details required to validate a case, e.g. dates of requests, reasons for dissatisfaction. At the moment, the process of validation is currently taking, on average, five weeks.

If we can investigate, we will send a copy of your application to the public authority, so they know what you have asked us to investigate.

If you used a pseudonym when you made the information request to the authority, let us know so that we can discuss the options open to you.

Please note that the above reference will be the reference number for your case and should be quoted in correspondence with this office.

The following link takes you to an equality monitoring form - https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EqualityM.... I would really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to complete this. If you would prefer us to send you a printed form please contact our office and we will be pleased to send one to you.

If you have any queries, please contact our Validation Officers; Pauline Keith or Suzanne Jenkins on 01334 464610

Yours sincerely

Enforcement Team Support Assistant

Scottish Information Commissioner
Kinburn Castle
Doubledykes Road
St Andrews
KY16 9DS

Phone: 01334 464610
Fax: 01334 464611
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