Review of the college curriculum frameworks

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Dear Edinburgh College,

Please provide all documentation from the Principal of Edinburgh College instructing a review of the college curriculum frameworks from when she came into post on 18th May 2015.

To be clear, I wish to receive copies of all information that Edinburgh College holds which details the Principals instruction of a review of the curriculum frameworks. This includes but is not limited to emails, internal letters or memos, minutes of meetings, external letters etc.

I am requesting these papers/documentation as the situation at Edinburgh College is well and truly in the public domain and is very much in the public interest and would most definitely pass the public interest test.

Please also advise the roles of ALL members of staff that were involved in the review of the college curriculum frameworks?

Please also advise if you outsourced or brought in any consultants/and or supply chain for professional services to assist any member of Edinburgh College staff in conducting a review of the college curriculum frameworks?

Please advise date that the Principal of Edinburgh College instructed the review of the college curriculum frameworks?

In light of Data Protection legislation, you are able to redact any personal detail, therefore this should not thwart you from disclosing the requested information, however I would request that that any role of any member of staff remain disclosed.

I am happy to receive this information in scanned electronic format.

I shall look forward to receiving your response within the 20 working days

Yours faithfully,

Ashton King

Alan Williamson, Edinburgh College




The College is closed over the festive period and will re-open on Monday,
09 January 2017.  

 

 

Regards

Alan

 

 

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Edinburgh College Freedom of Information, Edinburgh College

Dear Ashton King

We are in receipt of your request for information under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (copied below) and will respond by 26 January 2017.

Kind regards
FOI Team

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Edinburgh College Freedom of Information, Edinburgh College

Dear Ashton King

 

As of 1 October 2012, Edinburgh’s Telford College, Jewel & Esk College and
Stevenson College merged to create a single college called Edinburgh
College.

 

We refer to your information request of 25 December and we can confirm the
following information: 

 

In the autumn of 2015 during a regular one to one meeting between the
Principal and Vice Principal, the Principal tasked the VP to carry out a
review of curriculum frameworks.  This resulted in an analysis of course
enrolments versus credits claimed.

 

Following on from this piece of work, the Principal then tasked the Head
of Engineering (in March 2016) to do a special piece of work auditing
course frameworks.

A small team was set up which included staff from Curriculum, Quality, MIS
and Timetabling to ensure appropriate expertise and advice was provided to
all Curriculum Managers and Heads of Centre.  This work was carried out
using live reports from the online reporting dashboards, framework viewer
and

Unit E (database).  In response to this work, new guidance, training and
support was provided to all curriculum staff.

 

No consultants were used for this work.

 

Edinburgh College is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act (FOISA) 2002. If you are dissatisfied with this
response, you may ask the college to review this decision. To do this,
please contact the Governance Director at the postal address below or
e-mail the Governance Director at [email address]
describing your original request and explaining your grounds for
dissatisfaction. (Please include in your review request, your name and
home address for correspondence).

You have 40 working days from receipt of this letter to submit a review
request to:

Governance Director

4th Floor

Edinburgh College (Milton Road Campus)

24 Milton Road East

Edinburgh

EH15 2PP

When the review process has been completed and if you are still
dissatisfied, you may ask the Scottish Information Commissioner to
intervene.

The Commissioner’s online appeal service is available from their website:
[1]www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal

The  online appeal service is available 24/7 and offers you real time help
and advice about your appeal.

 

You also have the right to appeal to the Court of Session on a point of
law following a decision of the Commissioner.

Regards

FOI Team

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear Edinburgh College Freedom of Information,

Thank you for your response, in it however you stated:
"In the autumn of 2015 during a regular one to one meeting between the
Principal and Vice Principal, the Principal tasked the VP to carry out a
review of curriculum frameworks. This resulted in an analysis of course
enrolments versus credits claimed."

1)Please advise the date of the regular One to One Meeting and Vice Principal.

2)Please also advise if this was a meeting with one individual Vice principle or more?

Thanking you kindly for your assistance in clarifying this matter.

Yours sincerely,

Ashton King

Edinburgh College Freedom of Information, Edinburgh College

Dear Ashton King

 

In response to your email received on 28 January, we can confirm the
following:

 

1)Please advise the date of the regular One to One Meeting and Vice
Principal.

Regular meetings took place between the Principal and Vice Principal. The
specific meeting took place in mid-September and initial work commenced
thereafter.

 

2)Please also advise if this was a meeting with one individual Vice
principle or more?

The meeting took place with other members of staff including the Depute
Principal.

 

Edinburgh College is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of 
Information (Scotland) Act (FOISA) 2002. If you are dissatisfied with
this  response, you may ask the college to review this decision. To do
this,  please contact the Governance Director at the postal address below
or  e-mail the Governance Director at [email address]  describing your
original request and explaining your grounds for  dissatisfaction. (Please
include in your review request, your name and  home address for
correspondence).

 

You have 40 working days from receipt of this letter to submit a review 
request to:

 

Governance Director

 

4th Floor

 

Edinburgh College (Milton Road Campus)

 

24 Milton Road East

 

Edinburgh

 

EH15 2PP

 

When the review process has been completed and if you are still 
dissatisfied, you may ask the Scottish Information Commissioner to 
intervene.

 

The Commissioner’s online appeal service is available from their website:
[1]www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal

 

The  online appeal service is available 24/7 and offers you real time
help  and advice about your appeal.

 

You also have the right to appeal to the Court of Session on a point of 
law following a decision of the Commissioner.

 

Regards

 

FOI Team

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear Edinburgh College Freedom of Information,

Many thanks for your response, and for the transparency of your disclosure.

However, could you advise me of the the following:

1, The full title of the Vice Principle involved.?
2. How many other members of staff were involved with this meeting?
3. The Roles of these member's of staff?
4. Was there a representative from the Scottish Further and Higher Education Council involved in this meeting?
5. Taking into account the September long weekend holiday, could you be more specific about the date?
6. Were these regular meetings held weekly? If so were they held on a particular day each week? I'm sure you must have a minute of the meetings to be able to refine this answer.
7. How frequently did a member of the Senior Management Team meet with a representative from the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council?

I will look forward to your response.

Yours sincerely,

Ashton King

Dear Edinburgh College Freedom of Information,

My apologies, I forgot to ask for clarification on another point.

You stated that "In the autumn of 2015 during a regular one to one meeting between the
Principal and Vice Principal"

A ONE to ONE meeting would lead a reader to believe that there were only two individuals at this meeting, so in order to clarify the attendance at this ONE to ONE, can you confirm that The Principal, The Depute Principal, The Vice Principle in question and 'other' members of staff as follows:

1. From the minute you must hold, can you please advise if there were any apologies from any individual for not being in attendance?

2. If apologies were made for not being in attendance, please advise the role(s) of the individuals involved?

3. Please advise the total number of individuals that were due to be at this ONE to ONE meeting?

4. Please advise the total number of individuals that were actually at this ONE to ONE meeting or were a party to this meeting via video conference for example?

I would be grateful if you could acknowledge receipt of this these additional requests for information.

Yours sincerely,

Ashton King

Edinburgh College Freedom of Information, Edinburgh College

Dear Mr King

We are in receipt of your request for information under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (copied below) and will respond by 03 March 2017.

Kind regards
FOI Team

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Edinburgh College Freedom of Information, Edinburgh College

Dear Mr King

We are in receipt of your request for information under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (copied below) and will respond by 03 March 2017.

Kind regards
FOI Team

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Edinburgh College Freedom of Information, Edinburgh College

Dear Ashton King

 

As of 1 October 2012, Edinburgh’s Telford College, Jewel & Esk College and
Stevenson College merged to create a single college called Edinburgh
College

 

We refer to your information request of 04 February and can confirm that
we do not hold a record of this information.

 

We would refer you to our responses to your two previous FOI requests (26
January and 2 February), in which we have sought to provide as much advice
and assistance as possible. However, there is no written record of the
meeting you refer to.  Meetings between the Principal and members of her
senior team are regular and part of the course of normal business.

 

Please note, FOISA allows you to ask for any recorded information held by
a Scottish public authority and examples of the type of information you
can request can be found on the Scottish Information Commissioner’s
website:
[1]http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourR...

 

Edinburgh College is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act (FOISA) 2002. If you are dissatisfied with this
response, you may ask the college to review this decision. To do this,
please contact the Governance Director at the postal address below or
e-mail the Governance Director at [2][email address]
describing your original request and explaining your grounds for
dissatisfaction. (Please include in your review request, your name and
home address for correspondence).

 

You have 40 working days from receipt of this letter to submit a review
request to:

 

Governance Director

4th Floor

Edinburgh College (Milton Road Campus)

24 Milton Road East

Edinburgh

EH15 2PP

 

When the review process has been completed and if you are still
dissatisfied, you may ask the Scottish Information Commissioner to
intervene.

 

The Commissioner’s online appeal service is available from their website:
[3]www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal

 

The  online appeal service is available 24/7 and offers you real time help
and advice about your appeal.

 

You also have the right to appeal to the Court of Session on a point of
law following a decision of the Commissioner.

 

Regards

FOI Team

 

 

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Edinburgh College Freedom of Information, Edinburgh College

Dear Ashton King

 

As of 1 October 2012, Edinburgh’s Telford College, Jewel & Esk College and
Stevenson College merged to create a single college called Edinburgh
College

 

We refer to your information request of 04 February and can confirm that
we do not hold a record of this information.

 

We would refer you to our responses to your two previous FOI requests (26
January and 2 February), in which we have sought to provide as much advice
and assistance as possible. However, there is no written record of the
meeting you refer to.  Meetings between the Principal and members of her
senior team are regular and part of the course of normal business.

 

Please note, FOISA allows you to ask for any recorded information held by
a Scottish public authority and examples of the type of information you
can request can be found on the Scottish Information Commissioner’s
website:
[1]http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourR...

 

Edinburgh College is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act (FOISA) 2002. If you are dissatisfied with this
response, you may ask the college to review this decision. To do this,
please contact the Governance Director at the postal address below or
e-mail the Governance Director at [email address]
describing your original request and explaining your grounds for
dissatisfaction. (Please include in your review request, your name and
home address for correspondence).

 

You have 40 working days from receipt of this letter to submit a review
request to:

 

Governance Director

4th Floor

Edinburgh College (Milton Road Campus)

24 Milton Road East

Edinburgh

EH15 2PP

 

When the review process has been completed and if you are still
dissatisfied, you may ask the Scottish Information Commissioner to
intervene.

 

The Commissioner’s online appeal service is available from their website:
www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal

 

The  online appeal service is available 24/7 and offers you real time help
and advice about your appeal.

 

You also have the right to appeal to the Court of Session on a point of
law following a decision of the Commissioner.

 

Regards

FOI Team

 

 

 

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Dear Edinburgh College Freedom of Information,

In my original request I asked the following:

Please also advise if you outsourced or brought in any consultants/and or supply chain for professional services to assist any member of Edinburgh College staff in conducting a review of the college curriculum frameworks?

I have more than reasonable doubt as to the veracity of your response to this question which was : No consultants were used for this work.

1. It is common knowledge that there was external personnel brought in to review the curriculum together with the then VP Quality and Student Experience.

2. Please advise the total cost of this external personnel?

3. Please also advise the length of time it took to undertake this review?

4. Please supply start and finish dates of the review.

5. Please advise if the Board of Edinburgh College Management accepted the recommendations made from the result of this review?

Finally, please supply a copy of the report that was presented to the Board when the review was concluded.

I appreciate that not all of the above are directly attributed to the internal review, and therefore you may wish to treat this as a fresh FOI request.

Please acknowledge receipt of this request and I shall look forward to hearing from you in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Ashton King

Edinburgh College Freedom of Information, Edinburgh College

Dear Ashton King

 

We are in receipt of your request for information under the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (copied below) and will respond by 25
April 2017.

 

Kind regards

FOI Team

 

 

 

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Edinburgh College Freedom of Information, Edinburgh College

Dear Ashton King

We responded to your question relating to consultants on 26 January 2017 and advised you at the time you had 40 working days from receipt of that letter to submit a review request. We did not subsequently receive a review request for our response to your question submitted on 25 December 2016 and the 40 working day time limit has now passed.

Regards
FOI Team

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Dear Edinburgh College Freedom of Information,

Please now treat the following as fresh freedom of information Request.

Please advise if you outsourced or brought in any consultants/and or supply chain for professional services to assist any member of Edinburgh College staff in conducting a review of the college curriculum frameworks?

I have more than reasonable doubt as to the veracity of your response to this question which was : No consultants were used for this work.

1. It is common knowledge that there was external personnel brought in to review the curriculum together with the then VP Quality and Student Experience.

2. Please advise the total cost of this external personnel?

3. Please also advise the length of time it took to undertake this review?

4. Please supply start and finish dates of the review.

5. Please advise if the Board of Edinburgh College Management accepted the recommendations made from the result of this review?

Finally, please supply a copy of the report that was presented to the Board when the review was concluded.

Please acknowledge receipt of this request and I shall look forward to hearing from you in due course.

Yours sincerely,

Ashton King

Edinburgh College Freedom of Information, Edinburgh College

Dear Ashton King

 

Our Ref: 035/16/17

 

We are in receipt of your request for information under the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and will respond by 1 June 2017.

 

Kind regards

FOI Team

 

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Edinburgh College Freedom of Information, Edinburgh College

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Dear Ashton King

 

Our Ref: 035/16/17

 

As of 1 October 2012, Edinburgh’s Telford College, Jewel & Esk College and
Stevenson College merged to create a single college called Edinburgh
College.

 

We refer to your request for information dated 04 May 2017. The College
has considered your request as a request for information under section 1
of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (“FOISA”). Your
questions have been numbered to allow us to respond to them as individual
FOI requests:

 

035/16/17 (1) Please advise if you outsourced or brought in any
consultants/and or supply chain for professional services to assist any
member of Edinburgh College staff in conducting a review of the college
curriculum frameworks? Please refer to our original response to this
question (response sent on 26 January 2017) in which we confirmed no
consultants were used.  

 

035/16/17 (2) It is common knowledge that there was external personnel
brought in to review the curriculum together with the then VP Quality and
Student Experience. Please advise the total cost of this external
personnel? The work you refer to is the Curriculum Healthcheck. The
Curriculum Healthcheck was part of the college’s Development Plan which
was financially supported by the SFC.

 

035/16/17 (3) Please also advise the length of time it took to undertake
this review? The Development Plan ran between March 2015 to November 2015
when it was replaced by the college’s current Transformation Plan.

 

035/16/17 (4) Please supply start and finish dates of the review. See
response to 035/16/17 (3)

 

035/16/17 (5) Please advise if the Board of Edinburgh College Management
accepted the recommendations made from the result of this review? N/A No
final recommendations were made as the Development Plan was replaced by
the college’s current Transformation Plan.  

 

035/16/17 (6) Finally, please supply a copy of the report that was
presented to the Board when the review was concluded.

 

The Curriculum Healthcheck was undertaken as part of the college’s
Development Plan. The attached presentation and report on the Curriculum
Healthcheck were given to the Board at their Strategy Day in October 2015.
These documents formed the basis of a workshop discussion.

 

The Academic Council received an update on the Curriculum Healthcheck in
November 2015 in which it was confirmed workshops had been conducted with
the Board, Senior Management and Curriculum Managers to ascertain their
feedback on the Curriculum Healthcheck. Members discussed the feedback
received and it was noted progression on the actions arising from the
workshops would come back to future meetings of the Academic Council.

 

At the next Academic Council meeting in January 2016, members were
informed that the Curriculum Healthcheck had been superseded by a new
curriculum planning process as part of the college’s Transformation Plan.

 

Edinburgh College is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act (FOISA) 2002. If you are dissatisfied with this
response, you may ask the college to review this decision. To do this,
please contact the Head of Corporate Development at the postal address
below or e-mail the Head of Corporate Development at
[1][email address] describing your original request and
explaining your grounds for dissatisfaction. (Please include in your
review request, your name and home address for correspondence).

 

You have 40 working days from receipt of this letter to submit a review
request to:

 

Head of Corporate Development

4th Floor

Edinburgh College (Milton Road Campus)

24 Milton Road East

Edinburgh

EH15 2PP

 

When the review process has been completed and if you are still
dissatisfied, you may ask the Scottish Information Commissioner to
intervene.

 

The Commissioner’s online appeal service is available from their website:
[2]www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal

 

The  online appeal service is available 24/7 and offers you real time help
and advice about your appeal.

 

You must appeal to the Commissioner within six months of receiving the
review decision.

 

You also have the right to appeal to the Court of Session on a point of
law following a decision of the Commissioner.

 

Regards

FOI Team

 

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Dear Edinburgh College,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Edinburgh College's handling of my FOI request 'Review of the college curriculum frameworks'. 4th May 2017.

I do not consider that the information disclosed by Edinburgh College to be factually accurate.

I originally requested the following:

"Please provide all documentation from the Principal of Edinburgh College instructing a review of the college curriculum frameworks from when she came into post on 18th May 2015.

To be clear, I wish to receive copies of all information that Edinburgh College holds which details the Principals instruction of a review of the curriculum frameworks. This includes but is not limited to emails, internal letters or memos, minutes of meetings, external letters etc."

The report/review provided was not instructed by the new principal as she had not taken up post at the point of commission.

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

Yours faithfully,

Ashton King

Edinburgh College Freedom of Information, Edinburgh College

Dear Ashton King

 

In order for us to conduct a review, can we please ask you to clarify the
information that you are looking for.

 

There seems to be some confusion regarding your submission of two
different FOI requests in your request for a review.  

 

You appear to be asking us to review the question submitted to the college
on 25 December 2016: "Please provide all documentation from the Principal
of Edinburgh College instructing a review of the college curriculum
frameworks from when she came into post on 18th May 2015.

 

To be clear, I wish to receive copies of all information that Edinburgh
College holds which details the Principals instruction of a review of the
curriculum frameworks. This includes but is not limited to emails,
internal letters or memos, minutes of meetings, external letters etc."

 

We provided our response to you on 26 January 2017. We informed you at the
time that the deadline for submitting a review to this response was 40
working days. This deadline has now passed.

 

Your email also states that you are writing to request an internal review
of the college's handling of your FOI request submitted on 4th May 2017.

 

We allocated a reference number to this request (035/16/17) and provided
full responses to all 6 questions submitted on this date (responses
provided to you on 1 June 2017).  

 

You indicate that the report/review provided was not instructed by the new
Principal as she had not taken up post at the point of commission. The
questions you submitted on 4th May 2017 related specifically to the review
undertaken by the VP Quality and Student Experience and we provided a full
disclosure to your requests for information.

 

Can you please confirm why you believe the college has not provided a full
disclosure to your questions submitted on 4th May 2017. Questions and
responses copied below:

 

035/16/17 (1) Please advise if you outsourced or brought in any
consultants/and or supply chain for professional services to assist any
member of Edinburgh College staff in conducting a review of the college
curriculum frameworks?

Please refer to our original response to this  question (response sent on
26 January 2017) in which we confirmed no consultants were used. 

 

035/16/17 (2) It is common knowledge that there was external personnel
brought in to review the curriculum together with the then VP Quality and
Student Experience. Please advise the total cost of this external
personnel?

The work you refer to is the Curriculum Healthcheck. The Curriculum
Healthcheck was part of the college’s Development Plan which was
financially supported by the SFC.

 

035/16/17 (3) Please also advise the length of time it took to undertake
this review?

The Development Plan ran between March 2015 to November 2015 when it was
replaced by the college’s current Transformation Plan.

 

035/16/17 (4) Please supply start and finish dates of the review.

See response to 035/16/17 (3)

 

035/16/17 (5) Please advise if the Board of Edinburgh College Management
accepted the recommendations made from the result of this review?

N/A No final recommendations were made as the Development Plan was
replaced by the college’s current Transformation Plan. 

 

035/16/17 (6) Finally, please supply a copy of the report that was
presented to the Board when the review was concluded.

 

The Curriculum Healthcheck was undertaken as part of the college’s
Development Plan. The attached presentation and report on the Curriculum
Healthcheck were given to the Board at their Strategy Day in October 2015.
These documents formed the basis of a workshop discussion.

 

The Academic Council received an update on the Curriculum Healthcheck in
November 2015 in which it was confirmed workshops had been conducted with
the Board, Senior Management and Curriculum Managers to ascertain their
feedback on the Curriculum Healthcheck. Members discussed the feedback

 received and it was noted progression on the actions arising from the
workshops would come back to future meetings of the Academic Council.

 

At the next Academic Council meeting in January 2016, members were
informed that the Curriculum Healthcheck had been superseded by a new
curriculum planning process as part of the college’s Transformation Plan.

 

Regards

FOI Team

 

 

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Dear Edinburgh College Freedom of Information,

On 4 February 2017, I asked for further information numbered 1-7. I
expected these to be considered as mew requests, apart from point 5 (“taking into account the September long weekend holiday, could you be more specific about the date?”).

Therefore to myself it was logical that I requesting a copy of the review that the Principal ordered in Mid September.

You kindly provided me with a curriculum healthcheck that commenced before the Principal took up position. "The Curriculum Healthcheck was undertaken as part of the college’s
Development Plan. The attached presentation and report on the Curriculum
Healthcheck were given to the Board at their Strategy Day in October 2015.
These documents formed the basis of a workshop discussion."

This was not the review I requested, this appears to be a Development Plan, and not the review of curriculum ordered by the Principal in Mid September.

This trail of requests have been with regard to the sole issue of the review ordered by the new Principal, therefore please accept my apologies if there has been any misunderstanding or confusion at any juncture.

Yours sincerely,

Ashton King

Edinburgh College Freedom of Information, Edinburgh College

Dear Ashton King

Our Ref: 052/16/17

We are in receipt of your request for information under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and will respond by 18 August 2017.

Kind regards
FOI Team

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Edinburgh College Freedom of Information, Edinburgh College

Dear Ashton King

 

Thank you for your most recent email. Our Ref: 052/16/17

 

In order for the college to appropriately respond to this request, can we
please ask you to confirm if this is a new FOI request or a request for a
review.

 

If this is a new FOI request, can you please confirm that you are asking
the college to provide a copy of the review of the curriculum ordered by
the Principal in Mid-September 2015.

 

Regards

 

FOI Team

 

 

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Dear Edinburgh College,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Edinburgh College's handling of my FOI request 'Review of the college curriculum frameworks'.

On 4 February 2017, I asked for further information numbered 1-7. I
expected these to be considered as mew requests, apart from point 5 (“taking into account the September long weekend holiday, could you be more specific about the date?”).

Therefore to myself it was logical that I requesting a copy of the review that the Principal ordered in Mid September.

You kindly provided me with a curriculum healthcheck that commenced before the Principal took up position. "The Curriculum Healthcheck was undertaken as part of the college’s
Development Plan. The attached presentation and report on the Curriculum
Healthcheck were given to the Board at their Strategy Day in October 2015.
These documents formed the basis of a workshop discussion."

This was not the review I requested, this appears to be a Development Plan, and not the review of curriculum ordered by the Principal in Mid September.

This trail of requests have been with regard to the sole issue of the review ordered by the new Principal, therefore please accept my apologies if there has been any misunderstanding or confusion at any juncture.

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

Yours faithfully,

Ashton King

Edinburgh College Freedom of Information, Edinburgh College

Dear Ashton King

Thank you for confirming that you are requesting an internal review of our response provided on 1 June 2017.

We will provide the result of the internal review by 22 August 2017.

Best wishes
Pauline

Edinburgh College Freedom of Information, Edinburgh College

Dear Ashton King,

 

Our Ref: 052/16/17

 

In summary and for the avoidance of doubt:

 

On 04 May 2017 you emailed six questions to Edinburgh College under the
Freedom of Information Act. The College provided full answers to each of
these questions on 01 June 2017. (Our Ref 035/16/17)

 

On 11 July 2017 you emailed the college to request a review of the
college’s response to this FOI request dated 04 May 2017. “‘Review of the
college curriculum frameworks’ 4^th May 2017”.

 

However, in your 11 July 2017 email seeking a review, you actually refer
to the content of an FOI request dated 25 December 2016, to which the
college had provided a full response.

 

The college then sought clarification from you on 12 July 2017, pointing
out that full responses had been delivered to questions in your email
dated 04 ^ May 2017, and that the content of your FOI from 25 December
2016, to which the college had also provided full answers, was now outwith
the time period to request a review.

 

On 21 July 2017 you responded to this request for clarification. You
explained that you were instead referring to an FOI request dated 04
February 2017.

 

Your email of 21 July 2017 clarified the specific FOI response you wished
to be reviewed. It stated:

 

“On 4 February 2017, I asked for further information numbered 1-7. I
expected these to be considered as new requests, apart from point 5
(“taking into account the September long weekend holiday, could you be
more specific about the date?”)”.

 

(For clarity, the “further information numbered 1-7” are reproduced from
your 4^th February email, here):

 

1, The full title of the Vice Principle involved.?

2. How many other members of staff were involved with this meeting?

3. The Roles of these member's of staff?

4. Was there a representative from the Scottish Further and Higher
Education Council involved in this meeting?

5. Taking into account the September long weekend holiday, could you be
more specific about the date?

6. Were these regular meetings held weekly? If so were they held on a
particular day each week? I'm sure you must have a minute of the meetings
to be able to refine this answer.

7. How frequently did a member of the Senior Management Team meet with a
representative from the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding
Council?

 

The college responded to these seven questions, dated 04 February 2017, in
our email on 23 February 2017 ^  and drew your attention to additional
information provided to you previously on 26 January 2017 and 01 February
2017.

 

Your clarification email of 21 ^ July 2017 - in specific relation to point
five above - continued:

 

“Therefore to myself it was logical that I requesting a copy of the review
that the Principal ordered in Mid September.

 

“These trail of requests have been with regard to the sole issue of the
review ordered by the new Principal, therefore please accept my apologies
if there has been any misunderstanding or confusion at any juncture”

 

On 02 August 2017 the college again contacted you for clarification with
reference to your email of 21 July 2017, asking whether this request for
“a copy of the review ordered by the new Principal in Mid September” was
to be treated as a request for review or a new FOI request.

 

On 07 August 2017 ^ you confirmed that Edinburgh College was to treat your
email dated 21 July 2017 as a request for a review.

 

Accordingly, we have undertaken an internal review of the college's
response to your FOI request submitted on 04 May 2017, as per your initial
request on 11 July 2017.

 

The review has found that the response provided on 01 June 2017 fully
answered all of the six questions you submitted on 04 May 2017.

 

The review also found that at no point in your request submitted on 04 May
2017 did you ask the college to provide a copy of the review of the
curriculum ordered by the Principal in Mid-September 2015.

 

However, in order to bring this matter to a close under our duty to
provide advice and assistance, we have treated the statement contained
within your email of 21 July 2017 “Therefore to myself it was logical that
I requesting a copy of the review that the Principal ordered in Mid
September.” as a new request for information. A response will be provided
to you in a separate email (Our Ref: 056/16/17).

 

We trust having provided answers to the best of our ability to each of
your FOI requests beginning 25 December 2016; having responded today to
your request for an internal review dated 11 July 2017 in relation to your
FOI request dated 04 May 2017; and having provided a copy of the review of
the curriculum ordered by the Principal in Mid-September 2015 (see
separate email, Our Ref: 056/16/17), that we have discharged our duties
under the FOISA Act in relation to your queries around review of college
curriculum frameworks.

 

Please note that under FOISA Section 14, “where a Scottish public
authority has complied with a request with a person for information, it is
not obliged to comply with a subsequent request from that person which is
identical or substantially similar unless there has been a reasonable
period of time between the making of the request complied with and the
making of the subsequent request”.

 

If you are still dissatisfied, you may ask the Scottish Information
Commissioner to intervene.

 

 

Regards

 

FOI Team  

www.edinburghcollege.ac.uk

Edinburgh College Freedom of Information, Edinburgh College

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Dear Ashton King,

 

Our Ref: 056/16/17

 

We refer to your email of 21 July 2017 in which you provided the college
with clarification against a request for an internal review submitted on
11 July 2017.

 

Our response to your request for an internal review has been provided in a
separate email (Our Ref: 052/16/17)

 

We have considered the following statement contained within your email of
21 July 2017 as a new request for information under section 1 of the
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (“FOISA”):

 

056/16/17  (1) Therefore to myself it was logical that I requesting a copy
of the review that the Principal ordered in Mid September…These trail of
requests have been with regard to the sole issue of the review ordered by
the new Principal.

 

The Curriculum Planning Report was presented to the Academic Council on 3
June 2016. The minutes from this meeting are publically available:
[1]http://doc.edinburghcollege.ac.uk/welcom...

 

We have also attached a copy of the Curriculum Planning Report that was
presented to the Academic Council on 3 June 2016. Please note, this
document has been shared with all staff during staff briefing sessions.

 

Please note that should you wish to request an internal review of this
response, in line with the guidance which follows below, your request for
review must relate solely to the content included above, which is a
separate, new and independent request to all previous correspondence.

 

Edinburgh College is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act (FOISA) 2002. If you are dissatisfied with this
response, you may ask the college to review this decision. To do this,
please contact the Head of Corporate Development at the postal address
below or e-mail the Head of Corporate Development at
[2][email address] describing your original request and
explaining your grounds for dissatisfaction. (Please include in your
review request, your name and home address for correspondence).

 

You have 40 working days from receipt of this letter to submit a review
request to:

 

Head of Corporate Development

4th Floor

Edinburgh College (Milton Road Campus)

24 Milton Road East

Edinburgh

EH15 2PP

 

When the review process has been completed and if you are still
dissatisfied, you may ask the Scottish Information Commissioner to
intervene.

 

The Commissioner’s online appeal service is available from their website:
[3]www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal

 

The  online appeal service is available 24/7 and offers you real time help
and advice about your appeal.

 

You must appeal to the Commissioner within six months of receiving the
review decision.

 

You also have the right to appeal to the Court of Session on a point of
law following a decision of the Commissioner.

 

 

Regards, FOI Team.

 

www.edinburghcollege.ac.uk

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Edinburgh College Freedom of Information, Edinburgh College

Dear Ashton King

 

Further to our original response to you on 23 February 2017, we can
confirm that the review of curriculum frameworks commenced shortly after a
meeting held on 8 September 2015 with curriculum staff .

 

Regards

FOI Team

 

 

From: Edinburgh College Freedom of Information
Sent: 23 February 2017 14:37
To: Ashton King <[FOI #378965 email]>
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Review of the college
curriculum frameworks

 

Dear Ashton King

 

As of 1 October 2012, Edinburgh’s Telford College, Jewel & Esk College and
Stevenson College merged to create a single college called Edinburgh
College

 

We refer to your information request of 04 February and can confirm that
we do not hold a record of this information.

 

We would refer you to our responses to your two previous FOI requests (26
January and 2 February), in which we have sought to provide as much advice
and assistance as possible. However, there is no written record of the
meeting you refer to.  Meetings between the Principal and members of her
senior team are regular and part of the course of normal business.

 

Please note, FOISA allows you to ask for any recorded information held by
a Scottish public authority and examples of the type of information you
can request can be found on the Scottish Information Commissioner’s
website:
[1]http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourR...

 

Edinburgh College is subject to the provisions of the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act (FOISA) 2002. If you are dissatisfied with this
response, you may ask the college to review this decision. To do this,
please contact the Governance Director at the postal address below or
e-mail the Governance Director at [2][email address]
describing your original request and explaining your grounds for
dissatisfaction. (Please include in your review request, your name and
home address for correspondence).

 

You have 40 working days from receipt of this letter to submit a review
request to:

 

Governance Director

4th Floor

Edinburgh College (Milton Road Campus)

24 Milton Road East

Edinburgh

EH15 2PP

 

When the review process has been completed and if you are still
dissatisfied, you may ask the Scottish Information Commissioner to
intervene.

 

The Commissioner’s online appeal service is available from their website:
[3]www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal

 

The  online appeal service is available 24/7 and offers you real time help
and advice about your appeal.

 

You also have the right to appeal to the Court of Session on a point of
law following a decision of the Commissioner.

 

Regards

FOI Team