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Undergradaute Student Drop out information 1997-present

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Dear University of Edinburgh,

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information:

Records on Undergraduate student drop out rates from 1997-present date, including what courses the relevant students were on, what year of study they were in when they officially dropped out, the date they ceased studies, their age and their gender. I would also request information regarding the level of maintenance loan they were receiving during their studies, as well as any additional relevant bursaries, grants or other financial support.

Please provide the information in the form of an excel spreadsheet.

If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.

If you can identify any ways that my request could be refined, I would be grateful for any further advice and assistance.

If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request, my details are outlined below.

Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.

Best wishes,

Emma Lister

Records Management, University of Edinburgh

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Dear Ms Lister

 

Thank you for your email of 22 January 2020 requesting information about
undergraduate student withdrawal rates. I am writing to let you know that
we are currently experiencing a high volume of requests compounded by
unplanned staff absences. We have therefore not been able to progress your
request as quickly as we would have hoped, and were unable to respond
within 20 working days.

 

However, I can confirm that your request is actively being progressed. To
enable the University to process your request, I am writing to you to
provide advice and assistance, and to ask for clarification. Please find
our request for clarification attached.

 

I can only apologise for the delay in responding to your request. However,
as we did not respond to your request within 20 working days, you do have
the right to ask the University to conduct an internal review of the
reasons for the delay. If you wish to do this you should write to the
Records Management Section (using this email address), describing the
original request, explaining your grounds for dissatisfaction, and
including an address for correspondence. When the review process has been
completed, if you are still dissatisfied, you may use the [1]Scottish
Information Commissioner’s guidance on making an appeal to make an appeal
to the Commissioner.

 

However, please note that the legislation only allows requesters to make
one internal review request in relation to a request. Therefore if you ask
for an internal review now on the basis of our response being late, you
will not be able to seek a further internal review if you are dissatisfied
with the content of the response to your request and your next step will
be to appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner as described above.

 

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
[2]https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management/....

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

Rob Don

Information Compliance Officer

Records Management Section

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

 

Telephone: 0131 651 4099

Email: [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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Records Management, University of Edinburgh

Dear Ms Lister

 

On 22 January 2020 you wrote to the University requesting information
about the student withdrawal rate, including information about programmes,
age, gender, and receipt of bursaries. I replied to you on 20 February
2020 offering advice and assistance concerning the level of information
that you were requesting, and the type of information that we would be
able to provide.

 

We have not heard back from you and I am writing to confirm that you no
longer wish to proceed with the request. If I do not receive a response by
17 April 2020, I will assume that you no longer want the information, and
we will close your request.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Rob Don

Information Compliance Officer

Records Management Section

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

 

Telephone: 0131 651 4099

Email: [University of Edinburgh request email]

Website: [1]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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