Dear Mr Dimitroulopoulos,
This is to acknowledge receipt of your request for information below and to let you know it is being processed.
We'll get back to you as soon as we can, but in any case within 20 working days from 19/07/2019.
In the meantime, if you wish to add any further details or check on progress, please reply to this message, quoting the reference number IMPS#02528, so that we can track your input and respond promptly.
Yours sincerely,
Sinead Latham
Information Management & Policy Services (IMPS), University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AH
t: +44 (0)118 378 8981 www.reading.ac.uk/foia

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Dear Mr Dimitroulopoulos, 

We have completed the compilation of information in response to your
request.

We can confirm that we do hold some information of the description
specified in your request. Our responses are given below each limb of your
request below.

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Please provide the following data in relation to all of your undergraduate
law courses (i.e. any course with course code M1**) for the following
admissions cycles:

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

1. Whether the university currently operates a ‘contextual offers’ policy
where law applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds are, subject to
meeting certain criteria, eligible to be made a lower grade offer than
applicants who do not meet such criteria;

The University is making contextual offers to applicants for 2019 entry
onwards who meet at least one of the following criteria:

o Live in an area with low participation in Higher Education (defined as
POLAR quintiles 1 and 2);
o Live in an area with high levels of deprivation (defined as IMD
quintiles 1 and 2);
o Have declared a disability on their UCAS form;
o Have participated in our Reading Scholars programme.

2. If such a policy is in place, the A-level or IB grades that typically
make up this lower ‘contextual offer’ (for example, AAA instead of A*AA);

Depending on the applicant’s predicted grades and if the applicant meets
the eligibility criteria listed above, applicants will receive a
contextual offer that is typically two grades lower than the top end of
the published grade range for the programme you are applying for. For
example, if the grade range is AAB – ABB, the applicant will receive a
contextual offer of BBB.

3. The number of ‘contextual offers’ made to applicants to all law-related
courses throughout these four admissions cycles (for example, 4 in
2015/16, 2 in 2016/17, etc).

None, this is new for 2019 applicants.

Under Section 16 (Duty to Provide Help & Assistance) we can advise
information is available on the University website, at the link below, see
subheading Contextualised Offers.

[1]https://www.reading.ac.uk/ready-to-study...

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We are required to include details of our complaints procedures, including
your rights to apply to the Information Commissioner.  The procedure is
detailed in our Freedom of Information and Environmental Information
Regulations policy on the web at
[2]www.reading.ac.uk/freedom-of-information-policy

If we are unable to resolve any complaint, you can complain to the
Information Commissioner, the independent body who oversees the access to
information regimes:

Information Commissioner

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Email: [3][email address]

Yours sincerely, 

Sinead Latham

Information Compliance Officer

Information Management & Policy Services (IMPS), University of Reading,
Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AH

[4][University of Reading request email]    t: +44 (0)118 378 8981   
[5]www.reading.ac.uk/foia

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