A100 Medicine Admission Statistics
Dear Newcastle University,
I would like to ask for some information regarding the 2011/2012 admissions cycle. I hope you can comply with my requests as listed below.
1) How many of the students admitted were studying A Levels?
2) How many of the students admitted were international?
3) For each applicant who was unsuccessful in obtaining an
interview, can I get a list of their UKCAT score, their GCSE's, and predicted A Level results and subjects studied.
4)For each applicant who was successful in obtaining an interview, can I get a list of their UKCAT score, their GCSE's, and predicted A Level results and subjects studied.
5) Can I get a list of criteria that the interviewers looked at during the interview to determine a candidates suitability?
6) How was the interview scored? Was it a score out of 10 by each interviewer or anything along those lines?
7) For each applicant who was successful in obtaining an offer, can I get a list of their UKCAT score, their GCSE's, and predicted A Level results and subjects studied as well as their score in the interview stage?
8) I would also like any scoring or grading system used to assess interview performance and if a form or such is provided to interviewers to record performance is available
I would also kindly request this. This specific request is for this years admission cycle, ie 2012/2013.
9) Can I also get details of successful and unsuccessful
candidates that studied the IB and their various predicted results and UKCAT scores?
10) Can I get the interview scores for each successful candidate as well along with the interview scores for unsuccessful candidates in the spreadsheet requested above?
I'd like all of this information if possible to be in a spreadsheet or word format if possible. Thank you very much
Yours faithfully,
Mr Choudhary
Dear Mr Choudhary,
Thank you for your request for information received on 10 October 2012. We're dealing with it under the Freedom of Information Act and will get back to you within 20 working days.
Regards,
Peter Dinsdale
Information Security Officer (Compliance)
Tel: 0191 222 6950
Dear Mr Choudhary,
Thank you for your request for information received on 10 October 2012.
Unfortunately, we are not able to supply you with all of the information that you have requested. Due to the way that we hold this information, some of the details you have asked for are not readily available. You may be aware that the FOI Act sets a limit of 18 hours' work in locating and collating information that is required to be undertaken for a request. It would take us longer than 18 hours to provide you with all of the information that you have requested. Your request is therefore refused under section 12(1) of the Act.
We can advise you on what information we would be able to provide within the limit. I have listed each of your questions, with an explanation of what we could provide. There is also one question where we need you to clarify what it is that you are asking for.
1) How many of the students admitted were studying A Levels?
- We can provide this total figure
2) How many of the students admitted were international?
- We can provide this total figure
3) For each applicant who was unsuccessful in obtaining an interview, can I get a list of their UKCAT score, their GCSE's, and predicted A Level results and subjects studied.
- We can provide the UKCAT scores only
4)For each applicant who was successful in obtaining an interview, can I get a list of their UKCAT score, their GCSE's, and predicted A Level results and subjects studied.
- We can provide the UKCAT scores only
5) Can I get a list of criteria that the interviewers looked at during the interview to determine a candidates suitability?
- These are set out in the admissions policy
6) How was the interview scored? Was it a score out of 10 by each interviewer or anything along those lines?
- We can answer this
7) For each applicant who was successful in obtaining an offer, can I get a list of their UKCAT score, their GCSE's, and predicted A Level results and subjects studied as well as their score in the interview stage?
- We can provide UKCAT score and interview score
8) I would also like any scoring or grading system used to assess interview performance and if a form or such is provided to interviewers to record performance is available I would also kindly request this. This specific request is for this year's admission cycle, i.e. 2012/2013.
- Again, the criteria are set out in the admissions policy
9) Can I also get details of successful and unsuccessful candidates that studied the IB and their various predicted results and UKCAT scores?
- Can you clarify what you mean by successful/unsuccessful here? Does this mean interviewed/not interviewed, or does it mean offered a place/not offered a place?
10) Can I get the interview scores for each successful candidate as well along with the interview scores for unsuccessful candidates in the spreadsheet requested above?
- We can provide interview scores
If you would like us to proceed with your request as I have set out above, please confirm this and provide the required clarification on question 9.
If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your request you can ask for an internal review.
Details of how to do this can be found at:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/foi/access/complain...
If you are not happy with the outcome of the internal review, you then have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision.
Details of how to do this can be found at:
http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints/freedom...
Regards,
Peter Dinsdale
Information Security Officer (Compliance)
Tel: 0191 222 6950
Dear nrecman,
Thank you very much for your reply. I would like all the data that you can provide.
With regards to question 5, I would like to see if there is any form that is used by the admissions office to determine the suitability. If so, I would like a copy of this. Regarding question 8, it is a request for the interview form, therefore it is not going to be admissions policy. I hope I can get copies of both of these.
As for your clarification, I would like the data to be sorted into successful and unsuccessful in obtaining a place. Thank you very much for your prompt reply.
Yours sincerely,
Mr Choudhary
Dear Mr Choudhary,
Thank you for the confirmation and clarification. I'll pass this back to the Medical School for them to collate the relevant information.
Regards,
Peter Dinsdale
Information Security Officer (Compliance)
Tel: 0191 222 6950
Dear nrecman,
I am writing to inform you that I made a request on the 10th of October regarding A100 Medicine Admission Statistics. This request is now overdue and the university has a legal obligation to answer my request within 20 working days. That time limit is now up and I request that you please respond to my request as soon as possible without any further delay.
Yours sincerely,
Mr Choudhary
Dear Mr Choudhary,
Thank you for your email. We responded to your first request on 1 November 2012 explaining that we were refusing it for exceeding the cost limit. You have subsequently agreed to narrow down your request to cover just the information that we are able to provide you within the 18 hour limit.
This classes as a new request for information, received on 1 November 2012. The deadline for response for this new request is 29 November 2012. We will provide you with a response by that date at the latest.
Regards,
Peter Dinsdale
Information Security Officer (Compliance)
Tel: 0191 222 6950
Dear nrecman,
After further study of the act, I have come to the conclusion that your response is valid. However, I do urge the university to respond to my request as soon as reasonably possible and certainly within the time limit.
Yours sincerely,
Mr Choudhary
Dear Mr Choudhary,
Thank you for your request for information received on 1 November 2012.
Please find attached the agreed information.
If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your request you can ask for an internal review.
Details of how to do this can be found at:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/foi/access/complain...
If you are not happy with the outcome of the internal review, you then have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision.
Details of how to do this can be found at:
http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints/freedom...
Regards,
Peter Dinsdale
Information Security Officer (Compliance)
Tel: 0191 222 6950
Dear nrecman,
Thank you very much for the informative response. It is greatly appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Mr Choudhary
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