Attainment statistics for undergraduate students

The request was refused by Newcastle University.

Dear Newcastle University,

I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Please send me:

1. The percentage of all UK-domiciled undergraduate students achieving a 1st or 2:1 at your institution, for each of the past 5 years

2. The percentage of UK-domiciled white undergraduate students achieving a 1st or 2:1 at your institution, for each of the past 5 years

3. The percentage of UK-domiciled BAME/BME undergraduate students achieving a 1st or 2:1 at your institution, for each of the past 5 years

4. The percentage of all UK-domiciled undergraduate students achieving a 1st only at your institution, for each of the past 5 years

5. The percentage of UK-domiciled white undergraduate students achieving a 1st only at your institution, for each of the past 5 years

6. The percentage of UK-domiciled BAME/BME undergraduate students achieving a 1st only at your institution, for each of the past 5 years

7. The percentage of non-UK-domiciled undergraduate students domiciled in the European Economic Area in your institution, for each of the past 5 years

7a. Additionally, if this information is held, the percentage of non-UK-domiciled undergraduate students domiciled in the European Economic Area who are not white in your institution, for each of the past 5 years

8. The percentage of non-UK-domiciled undergraduate students domiciled outside the European Economic Area in your institution, for each of the past 5 years

8a. Additionally, if this information is held, the percentage of non-UK-domiciled undergraduate students domiciled outside the European Economic Area who are not white in your institution, for each of the past 5 years

9. The percentage of all non-UK-domiciled undergraduate students achieving a 1st or 2:1 at your institution, for each of the past 5 years

9a. Additionally, if this information is held, the percentage of undergraduate students domiciled outside the European Economic Area achieving a 1st or 2:1 at your institution, for each of the past 5 years

9b. Additionally, if this information is held, the percentage of non-UK-domiciled undergraduate students domiciled in the European Economic Area who are not white achieving a 1st or 2:1 at your institution, for each of the past 5 years

9c. Additionally, if this information is held, the percentage of non-UK-domiciled undergraduate students domiciled outside the European Economic Area who are not white achieving a 1st or 2:1 at your institution, for each of the past 5 years

10. The percentage of all non-UK-domiciled undergraduate students achieving a 1st at your institution, for each of the past 5 years

10a. Additionally, if this information is held, the percentage of undergraduate students domiciled outside the European Economic Area achieving a 1st only at your institution, for each of the past 5 years

10b. Additionally, if this information is held, the percentage of non-UK-domiciled undergraduate students domiciled in the European Economic Area who are not white achieving a 1st only at your institution, for each of the past 5 years

10c. Additionally, if this information is held, the percentage of non-UK-domiciled undergraduate students domiciled outside the European Economic Area who are not white achieving a 1st only at your institution, for each of the past 5 years

For clarification, if this information is not already held in the aggregate form, “BAME/BME/not white” in this context covers all students for which your institution holds ethnicity data who have responded with a response other than any kind of white ethnicity, and includes respondents who have responded as mixed-race.

If it is not possible to provide some or all of the information requested above for each of the past 5 years, please provide as much of it as has been recorded.

If some or all of the information requested above is exempt from disclosure under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 as it is “reasonably accessible to the applicant, please provide a link to the precise location of this information.

In any case, if you can identify ways that my request could be refined please provide further advice and assistance to indicate this.

I look forward to your response within 20 working days, as stipulated by the Act. If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me and I will be happy to clarify what I am asking for.

Yours faithfully,

Robert Liow

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Dear Robert

Please accept this email as confirmation of receipt of your FOI request. We will forward your FOI request to the relevant Newcastle University department for processing.

Yours sincerely,

Information Security & Governance Team
IT Service
Newcastle University
NE1 8HQ

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Good morning Robert,

Thank you for your request for information dated 10/07/2019.

The information you requested is available to you through the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). HESA publish a range of statistics each year and can also be approached to provide bespoke analyses. As this information is already accessible to you elsewhere, it is exempt from disclosure under Section 21 of the Act.

I hope that this is of use. If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your request you can ask for an internal review. Details of how to do this can be found at: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/foi/access/complain...

If you are not happy with the outcome of the internal review, you then have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner's Office for a decision. Details of how to do this can be found at: http://ico.org.uk/concerns

Kind regards,

Information Security & Governance Team
IT Service
Newcastle University
NE1 8HQ

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