Undergraduate law admissions: data on candidates applying through non-traditional routes
Dear University of Nottingham,
I would like to request the following data relating to all law courses (i.e. both the single honours LLB or BA and any joint honours law courses) offered by your university.
I am requesting the data for candidates who received offers for one of the aforementioned law courses in the 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 admissions cycles (I refer to these candidates as ‘the offerholders’).
If the data for 2018/2019 is not available for whatever reason, please provide it for 2016/2017 (I am looking for at least two admission cycles’ worth of data, in order to ensure that it is reliable).
I request the following data for each admissions cycle:
1. The total number of offerholders for the aforementioned law courses.
2. The number of offerholders who were either planning to complete or had completed BTECs as their most recent qualification.
3. The number of offerholders who were either planning to complete or had completed a Higher National Diploma (‘HND’) or Higher National Certificate (‘HNC’) as their most recent qualification.
4. The number of offerholders who were either planning to complete or had completed an Access to Higher Education diploma as their most recent qualification.
5. The number of offerholders who received offers while planning to resit their A-levels. (These individuals will show up on your system as having completed one set of A-levels already, with predictions for at least one other A-level).
I look forward to hearing from you. Let me know if I can be of assistance in any way.
Yours faithfully,
Samira El Amein
Dear Samira El Amein,
Thank you for your request for information on Undergraduate law admissions: data on candidates applying through non-traditional routes.
We are dealing with your request under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
We will respond to your request within twenty working days. Please note this is calculated from the following working day from receipt of your request.
I hope that this is of help. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any enquiries regarding this email.
Yours sincerely
Catherine Allin
Information Compliance and Quality Officer – Freedom of Information,
Registrar’s Department
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Dear Samira,
I am writing in response to the freedom of information request we received
on 17^th September in which you asked for information on Undergraduate law
admissions: data on candidates applying through non-traditional routes.
A search of our electronic and paper records has been completed and I can
confirm that the information requested is held by the University.
In answer to your request:
I would like to request the following data relating to all law courses
(i.e. both the single honours LLB or BA and any joint honours law courses)
offered by your university.
I am requesting the data for candidates who received offers for one of the
aforementioned law courses in the 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 admissions
cycles (I refer to these candidates as ‘the offer holders’).
If the data for 2018/2019 is not available for whatever reason, please
provide it for 2016/2017 (I am looking for at least two admission cycles’
worth of data, in order to ensure that it is reliable).
I request the following data for each admissions cycle:
1. The total number of offer holders for the aforementioned law courses.
2. The number of offer holders who were either planning to complete or had
completed BTECs as their most recent qualification.
3. The number of offer holders who were either planning to complete or had
completed a Higher National Diploma (‘HND’) or Higher National Certificate
(‘HNC’) as their most recent qualification.
4. The number of offer holders who were either planning to complete or had
completed an Access to Higher Education diploma as their most recent
qualification.
5. The number of offer holders who received offers while planning to
resist their A-levels. (These individuals will show up on your system as
having completed one set of A-levels already, with predictions for at
least one other A-level).
For ease of reference this has been provided in a tabular format:
UG Law
Courses
Admissions
Cycle 2017/18 2018/19
Number of
Offer
Holders 353 392
Offer
Holders
with BTECs 17 11
Offer
Holders
with HND
or HNC 0 0
Offer
Holders
with
Access to
Higher
Education 12 5
Offer
Holders
with A
Level
Resits 0 0
I trust that this meets your requirements, however if you are unhappy with
the way in which your request has been handled and wish to request a
review of our response or to make a complaint, then please see the
attached information sheet and form.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any enquiries regarding
this email.
Yours sincerely
Catherine Allin
Information Compliance & Quality Officer – Freedom of Information,
Registrar’s Department
Web: www.nottingham.ac.uk/freedom-of-informat...
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Hello,
Thank you for your email
Are you sure that only 350 and 390 individuals received offers for all of the law courses at Nottingham? I ask this because these numbers are very similar number to the university's final law intake, and the number of students who receive offers from a university tends to be far, far higher than the number of students who enrol.
Yours sincerely,
Samira El Amein
Dear Samira
Thank you for your further email asking for clarification. We are checking the figures with our Admissions Team and will respond back to you as soon as we can.
Yours sincerely,
Karen Page
Apologies Samira,
The data provided in error was the number of accepted offer holders rather
than the total number of offers. This has now been remedied.
UG Law
Courses
Admissions
Cycle 2017/18 2018/19
Number of
Offer
Holders 1002 1201
Offer
Holders
with BTECs 17 11
Offer
Holders
with HND
or HNC 0 0
Offer
Holders
with
Access to
Higher
Education 12 5
Offer
Holders
with A
Level
Resits 0 0
My sincere apologies for the confusion.
Yours sincerely
Catherine Allin
Information Compliance & Quality Officer – Freedom of Information,
Registrar’s Department
Web: www.nottingham.ac.uk/freedom-of-informat...
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