Business Assurance
5th Floor
Information Compliance
James Clerk Maxwell Building
57 Waterloo Road
London
SE1 8WA
Tel: 020 7848 7816
Email:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xx.xx
Sasha Sumption
By email only to:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
15th May 2020
Dear Sasha,
Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“the Act”)
Further to your recent request for information held by King’s Col ege London, I am
writing to confirm that the requested information is held by the university.
Your request
We received your information request on 27th April 2020 and have treated it as a
request for information made under section 1(1) of the Act.
You requested the fol owing information:
1) How many offers for History BA were made for 2020 entry?
2) Wil KCL be using the Superstar Scheme this year?
3) If so, what wil the hotline number be?
4) How likely is it that students wil be able to change course if they exceed their entry requirements
for the course they got offered original y?
Our response
1) Information from the current admissions cycle has been withheld under Section
22 (‘future publication’). The university is required by law to send information
about students to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), where it forms
part of the student’s HESA record and is used for statistical analysis. Current
admissions data wil be returned to and published by HESA as part of the
university’s obligation once it has been through the mandatory data quality checks.
Disclosing information before it has been through the quality checking process
would be likely to result in confusion and inaccuracy. On this occasion then the
university finds the public interest favours withholding the information.
2) At this stage it is not known definitively if the scheme wil go ahead. Any
additional questions can be sent directly to our admissions department via the link
below
(https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/apply/contact-us)
3) See above
4) Students may be able to apply for alternative courses using UCAS adjustment.
Find out more information on the UCAS website
here:
https://www.ucas.com/ucas/undergraduate/apply-and-track/results/ucas-
adjustment-if-youve-done-better-expected
For application specific queries, applicants should contact the admissions office
directly.
This completes the university’s response to your information request.
Your right to complain
If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your
information request or feel that it has not been properly handled you have the right
to complain or request a review of our decision by contacting the Assistant Director
of Business Assurance (Information Compliance) within 60 days of the date of this
letter.
Further information about our internal complaints procedure is available at the link
below:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/col ege/policyzone/assets/files/governance_and_legal/Freed
om_of_Information_Policy_updated_Oct_%202011.pdf
In the event that you are not content with the outcome of your complaint you may
apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally the Information
Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the internal
complaints procedure provided by King’s College London.
The Information Commissioner can be contacted at the following address:
The Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Yours sincerely
Katie Poole
Information Compliance
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