Ethnicity data per course 2007/8 - 2017/8

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Dear Central School of Speech and Drama,

What are the total number of students and a breakdown of the ethnicities per course per year from the following courses between the years 2007/8 and 2017/18:
Acting, BA
Acting (CDT), BA
Acting (Musical Theatre), BA
Acting- Classical, MA
Acting Contemporary, MA
Acting for Screen, MA
Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media, MA/MFA.

Additionally, when looking at the personal characteristics provider by ethnicity for the institution overall in 2016/17 there seems to be information missing from 290 students on HESA. The overall is counted as 810 when for all other categories it clearly states there were 1,100 students overall. Could you please account for what ethnicities those 290 students are or why their data is not logged/where it can be found.

Yours faithfully,

Kaleya Baxe

FOI, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Dear Kaleya,

 

Please find below the School’s response to your FOI request:

 

What are the total number of students and a breakdown of the ethnicities
per course per year from the following courses between the years 2007/8
and 2017/18:

Acting, BA

Acting (CDT), BA

Acting (Musical Theatre), BA

Acting- Classical, MA

Acting Contemporary, MA

Acting for Screen, MA

Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media, MA/MFA.

 

Please note: Due to the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998, we
implement a strategy to prevent the disclosure of identifiable personal
information about any individual. Because of the small cohort sizes, we
can therefore only provide overall figures for BA Acting and MA Acting
(i.e. not broken down into the individual courses), and are unable to
provide information for MA Acting for Screen and MA/MFA Writing for Stage
and Broadcast Media.  

 

Please note also that we only retain the data you request from 2012
onwards (again, because of data protection requirements), and that 2017-18
data will not be publishable until it is signed off in October 2018. If
you have any queries, please contact the Academic Registrar, Hugo Burchell
([1][email address]).

 

12/13 13/14 14/15 15/16 16/17
BA Acting % % % % %
10 - White 63.98% 62.75% 59.35% 61.29% 58.44%
21 - Black
or Black
British -
Caribbean 2.48% 3.27% 5.16% 4.52% 3.90%
22 - Black
or Black
British -
African 3.11% 1.96% 2.58% 5.16% 5.84%
29 - Other
Black
background 0.00% 0.65% 1.94% 1.29% 1.95%
31 - Asian
or Asian
British -
Indian 1.24% 1.31% 1.29% 1.29% 1.30%
34 -
Chinese 0.62% 0.65% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
41 - Mixed
- White and
Black
Caribbean 1.86% 1.96% 3.87% 3.23% 1.95%
42 - Mixed
- White and
Black
African 1.86% 1.31% 0.65% 0.65% 0.65%
43 - Mixed
- White and
Asian 0.62% 0.65% 0.65% 0.65% 1.30%
49 - Other
Mixed
background 0.62% 0.00% 0.65% 0.65% 1.30%
80 - Other
Ethnic
background 0.00% 0.65% 0.65% 0.65% 0.65%
90 - Not
known 22.98% 17.65% 16.13% 14.84% 22.73%
98 -
Information
refused 0.62% 7.19% 7.10% 5.81% 0.00%
98 - Prefer
Not To Say 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
MA Acting
10 - White 83.33% 80.00% 86.67% 70.00% 83.33%
21 - Black
or Black
British -
Caribbean 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 3.33% 3.33%
22 - Black
or Black
British -
African 6.67% 3.33% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
29 - Other
Black
background 0.00% 3.33% 3.33% 0.00% 0.00%
31 - Asian
or Asian
British -
Indian 0.00% 3.33% 0.00% 3.33% 0.00%
34 -
Chinese 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 3.33%
39 - Other
Asian
background 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 3.33%
41 - Mixed
- White and
Black
Caribbean 3.33% 0.00% 0.00% 3.33% 0.00%
42 - Mixed
- White and
Black
African 3.33% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
43 - Mixed
- White and
Asian 3.33% 0.00% 0.00% 10.00% 0.00%
49 - Other
Mixed
background 0.00% 0.00% 3.33% 3.33% 3.33%
50 - Arab 0.00% 3.33% 3.33% 0.00% 0.00%
80 - Other
Ethnic
background 0.00% 3.33% 0.00% 0.00% 3.33%
90 - Not
known 0.00% 3.33% 0.00% 6.67% 0.00%
98 -
Information
refused 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
98 - Prefer
Not To Say 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%

 

 

Additionally, when looking at the personal characteristics provider by
ethnicity for the institution overall in 2016/17 there seems to be
information missing from 290 students on HESA. The overall is counted as
810 when for all other categories it clearly states there were 1,100
students overall. Could you please account for what ethnicities those 290
students are or why their data is not logged/where it can be found. 

 

Students self-declare ethnicity and the options they can select from
include the following:

90 - Not
known
98 -
Information
refused
98 - Prefer
Not To Say

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Abigail Fitch-Hickson

 

 

Kind Regards,
Abigail Fitch-Hickson
Assistant Academic Registrar

The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

University of London

Eton Avenue

London

NW3 3HY

Main: +44 (0) 20 7722 8183 (Internal ext. 2572)

 

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