Dr James Knapton
Information Compliance Officer
John Stan
By email
Reference: FOI-2018-25
7 February 2018
Dear Mr Stan,
Your request was received on 14 January 2018 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (‘the Act’).
You asked:
I want to request the scores of successful applicants for Economics for 2018 entry.
Can you list:
- college
- unconditional/conditional offer
- ECAA
- GCSE number including separate counts for A* and A
- Type of school (maintained/independent)
Please can you arrange the data so the GCSE’s of each person and their school type is
alongside their respective ECAA scores.
The requested information is attached. There is limited data as a ‘successful’ applicant means one who
had already (as of the date of the receipt of your request) met all the conditions of their (recent) offer.
The University has withheld the College of each successful applicant because, coupled with the other
information, it believes that individuals could be identified as a result. In presenting the information in
this way, the University is engaging the exemption at section 40(3)(a)(i) of the Act because its release
would breach the first data protection principle (the fair and lawful processing of personal data) as set
out in Schedule 1 of the Data Protection Act 1998. This part of section 40 confers absolute exemption
under the Act.
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Yours sincerely,
James Knapton
"...for Economics for 2018 entry...
- col ege
- unconditional/conditional offer
- ECAA
Data
- GCSE number including separate counts for A* and A
Request
- Type of school (maintained/independent)
Please can you arrange the data so the GCSE's of each person and their school type is alongside their
respective ECAA scores..."
By
John Stan
On
Sunday, 14 January, 2018
Figures are grouped by entry year. The 2018 entry year includes standard entry applications from the
Entry Year
2018 application round and deferred entry applications from the 2016/2017 rounds.
Qualification information has been anonymized, with each applicant assigned a dummy application
ApplyID
identifier.
Notes
School
School sector is determined from data provided by UCAS and DfE.
Sector/Type
GCSE
GCSE qualification information is supplied as declared by applicants through their UCAS application.
Entry Year
Course
ApplyID Offer
ECAA: Problem Solving
ECAA: Maths for Economics
2018
Economics 100001 Cond.
3.5
3.1
2018
Economics 100002 Cond.
4.0
3.1
2018
Economics 100003 Cond.
4.5
2.1
2018
Economics 100004 Cond.
6.3
7.0
2018
Economics 100005 Uncond.
7.0
7.9
2018
Economics 100006 Cond.
7.9
4.0
2018
Economics 100007 Cond.
9.0
5.5
Entry Year
Course
ApplyID Offer
GCSE A* Count GCSE A Count GCSE Other Count
2018
Economics 200001 Cond.
0
0
0
2018
Economics 200002 Cond.
0
0
0
2018
Economics 200003 Cond.
8
2
0
2018
Economics 200004 Cond.
8
2
1
2018
Economics 200005 Cond.
9
3
1
2018
Economics 200006 Cond.
10
1
1
2018
Economics 200007 Uncond.
10
0
0
Entry Year
Course
ApplyID Offer
School Type
2018
Economics 300001 Cond.
Independent
2018
Economics 300002 Uncond. Independent
2018
Economics 300003 Cond.
Maintained
2018
Economics 300004 Cond.
Maintained
2018
Economics 300005 Cond.
Maintained
2018
Economics 300006 Cond.
Maintained
2018
Economics 300007 Cond.
Other and Overseas
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