Miss Zoe Allwood
FOI Manager
William Wright
By email
Reference: FOI-2020-931
27 January 2021
Dear Mr Wright,
Your request was received on 29 December 2020 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (‘the Act’).
You asked:
1. Number of applicants, offers made, and their respective previous university, degree and
grades for the MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History program for the 2018, 2019,
and 2020 year.
2. Number of applicants, offers made, and their respective previous university, degree and
grades for the MPhil in Modern European History program for the 2018, 2019, and 2020 year.
3. Number of applicants, offers made, and their respective previous university, degree and
grades for the MPhil in Economic and Social History program for the 2018, 2019, and 2020
year.
4. Number of applicants, offers made, and their respective previous university, degree and
grades for the PhD in History program for the 2018, 2019, and 2020 year.
This information is attached. Please note the 2020-21 cycle is in progress and previous qualifications
are self-reported. The University has not supplied the grades of each 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(3A)(a) of the Act
because release in the precise format requested would breach the first data protection principle (the
fair, lawful and transparent processing of personal data) as set out in the General Data Protection
Regulation. This part of section 40 confers absolute exemption under the Act.
Please note that the attached document should not be copied, reproduced or used except in
accordance with the law of copyright.
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(https://ico.org.uk/).
Yours sincerely,
Zoe Allwood
