Dear Alexander,

I am writing to acknowledge your request under the Freedom of Information
Act 2000 received by The University of Manchester today, our reference as
per the subject line.

The University will respond to your request within 20 working days.

NB Due to the current situation with the Covid-19 virus and the
University’s response to it, there may be a delay in receiving your
response at this time.

With best regards

Lisa

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l Directorate of Compliance and Risk l  Professional Support Services |
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Dear Alexander,

Thank you for your email requesting the following:

Could I please request a breakdown of the mathematics grades obtained by
students enrolled on the BSc Economics course (L102) that they entered the
course with, but could you please limit the request to just A-level and IB
grades. Ideally this would be a table with the grade and the nuber of
people who received it for both A-level and IB. If it is not possible to
include the academic year 2018-2019, could you just exclude it.

The University has now considered your request and unfortunately the
information you are seeking cannot be provided at this time. This is
because there is no way to automatically extract this information and
therefore we would need to manually assess each record to extract the
responses to your questions. To put this into context, there would be
approximately 500 forms to process per year and even at a conservative
estimate of 5 minutes per record, this task would take almost 42 hours to
complete. This is clearly in excess of the 18 hour ‘Appropriate Limit’ for
requests (as defined in the Freedom of Information and Data Protection
(Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004). As a result, Section 12 of
the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) applies and regrettably this
task cannot be undertaken at this stage. This email serves to act as a
refusal notice for this request, as per Section 17 (5) of the Act.

Section 16 of the FOIA imparts a duty on public authorities to provide
advice and assistance to requesters to bring their requests within the
Appropriate Limit and therefore we can advise that if you narrow your
request we will relook into whether this data can be provided.

Complaints Procedure

If you feel that The University of Manchester has refused access to
information to which you are entitled, or has not dealt with your request
appropriately under the FOIA, you have a right of appeal.

An appeal in the first instance should be directed to the Information
Governance Office at [1][email address]. You should include: 

·         details of your initial request

·         any other relevant information

You must make this appeal within 40 working days from receipt of your
response. We will not accept appeals received after this date, as per the
Freedom of Information Code of Practice, Section 5.3.

The University will deal with your appeal within a reasonable time, and
will inform you of the projected time scale on receipt of your complaint.
You are also welcome to contact the Information Governance Office with
informal questions about the handling of your request. 

After The University’s internal appeals procedure has been exhausted, you
have a further right of appeal to the Information Commissioner’s
Office. Details of this procedure can be found at [2]www.ico.org.uk.

With best regards

Lisa

Dr Lisa Crawley l  Information Officer  l Information Governance Office
l Directorate of Compliance and Risk l  Professional Support Services |
Room G7 Christie Building  l Compliance & Risk Management Office l  The
University of Manchester  l  Oxford Road  l  Manchester  l  M13 9PL  l 
Tel +44 (0)161 275 8400  

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