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Dear Serena Wong,
 
Thank you for your email. We will treat your request for information as a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, received by the university on 21st September 2023. We will endeavour to respond to your request within the statutory 20 working day time frame.
 
Please note that the university has adopted the Model Publication Scheme and also publishes FOI responses on our Disclosure Log. The Fees Regulations state that requests received within 60 consecutive working days can be aggregated.

Kind Regards,

Lakeisha Dowsey-Magog (she/her)
Information Compliance Officer
Department of Business Assurance
King’s College London
Room: SW1.09
Somerset House East Wing
Strand Campus
WC2R 2LS

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Dear Serena, 

 

Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“the
Act”)

 

Further to your recent request for information held by King’s College
London, I am writing to confirm that the requested information is held in
part by the university.

 

Your request

 

We received your information request on 21^st August 2023 and have treated
it as a request for information made under section 1(1) of the Act.

 

You requested the following information:

 

I would like to know student intake information about A100 Medicine in
2022 and 2023

 

1. How many applications for A100 Medicine? What are the numbers for Home
students and International students?

2. What are the lowest and average marks for IB and UCAT to be invited for
interviews, for Home students and International students?

3. How many interviews are offered to Home students and International
students?

4. How many successful offers are made to Home students and International
students?

5. How many places are accepted by Home students and International
students?

6. A breakdown of nationalities of applications and offers from
International students

 

Our response

 

I would like to know student intake information about A100 Medicine in
2022 and 2023

 

The University can confirm it holds some of the requested data for the
2023/24 academic year, however, this information has been withheld in
accordance with section 43(2) of the Freedom of Information Act –
Commercial Interests.  

  

Student recruitment has been recognised as a commercial activity for
universities (see ICO decision notice:
[1]https://ico.org.uk/media/action-weve-tak...).
Since the UK government removed caps on the number of students
institutions could accept from 2015/16, King’s College London (KCL), must
operate within an increasingly competitive global market to continue to
attract the best students. Consequently, Higher Education Providers (HEPs)
such as King’s must recognise the impact these dynamics are having in
conferring elevated or additional commercial value on certain internal
information around recruitment. 

   

We consider that the records we hold in this regard are exempt under
Section 43(2) as disclosure would be likely to prejudice the commercial
interests of King’s College University. Disclosure of information to this
level, at this point in the admissions cycle, would likely harm the
ability of KCL to compete with other providers in the management of their
admissions decisions and offer making. The College acknowledges the public
interest in a healthy and competitive market place. However, disclosure of
information which would be likely to undermine the competitiveness of
King’s by allowing competitors to gain access to key information about our
programmes, their level of interest and take up, exposing demand and
provision. Other HEPs would be likely to use this information to inform
their marketing strategies in the following cycle; more aggressively
targeting specific areas perceived as weak. They would be likely to use
this commercial intelligence to see areas which are over and under
subscribed and target their recruitment accordingly. This would be likely
to impact on the College’s number and quality of applicants, undermining
its ability to compete in the sector. 

  

This is a qualified exemption and requires the consideration of a public
interest test: assessing whether the balance of the public interest
favours disclosing the information or maintaining the exemption. In this
case we have considered that the public interest favours non-disclosure.
It is in the public interest for the university to be able to fairly
attract best candidates and maintain its position as a world leading
university.   

 

Please Note:

Home/International have been considered to refer to UK and non-UK
domiciles respectively.

IB diploma results are usually provided after offers have been made.

We have gathered the IB data we receive from UCAS on results day to
produce an answer for Q2.

 

 1. How many applications for A100 Medicine? What are the numbers for Home
students and International students?

Applications - 3703:

UK applications – 2733;

Non-UK applications – 970

 

 2. What are the lowest and average marks for IB and UCAT to be invited
for interviews, for Home students and International students?

Lowest UCAT UK invited to interview – 2380;

Average UCAT UK invited to interview – 2935

 

Lowest UCAT non-UK invited to interview – 2820;

Average UCAT non-UK invited to interview - 3088

 

Lowest IB Total score UK invited to interview – 35;

Average IB Total score invited to interview – 42

 

Lowest IB Total score invited to interview – 34;

Average IB Total score invited to interview - 43

 

3. How many interviews are offered to Home students and International
students?

UK invited to interview – 1002;

Non-UK invited to interview – 99

 

 3. How many successful offers are made to Home students and International
students?

UK offers – 511;

Non-UK offers – 42

 

 4. How many places are accepted by Home students and International
students?

UK acceptances – 304;

Non-UK acceptances - 26

 

6. A breakdown of nationalities of applications and offers from
International students

 

See table below:

 

In relation to question 6 of your request, a small amount of personal data
has been withheld under Section 40(2) of the FOIA (2000). Where the total
number of students who were offered a place is five or fewer, the
University has replaced the figure with ‘equal to or less than five’ (≤5).
The University considers that the low numbers, in combination with
information from other accessible sources, mean it is reasonably likely
that students could be identified. Such identification would constitute a
breach of the first data protection principle ‘fair and lawful processing’
(Article 5, GDPR).  

 

Nationality Applications Offers
Albanian 1 <5
Australian 36 <5
Austrian 4 <5
Bahraini 7 <5
Bangladeshi 8 <5
Belgian 1 <5
Botswanan 3 <5
Brazilian 1 <5
Bruneian 4 <5
Bulgarian 3 <5
Burkina Faso 1 <5
Burmese 1 <5
Canadian 56 <5
Chilean 2 <5
Chinese 26 <5
Cypriot (European Union) 12 <5
Czech 1 <5
Danish 2 <5
Dominican 1 <5
Dutch 5 <5
Egyptian 15 <5
Emirati 2 <5
Eritrean 1 <5
Ethiopian 1 <5
Finnish 5 <5
French 15 <5
Georgian 1 <5
German 10 <5
Greek 7 <5
Hong Kong 78 9
Hungarian 2 <5
Indian 138 6
Indonesian 7 <5
Iranian 2 <5
Iraqi 4 <5
Irish 33 <5
Israeli 3 <5
Italian 18 <5
Jamaican 2 <5
Japanese 2 <5
Jersey 1 <5
Jordanian 11 <5
Kenyan 1 <5
Kuwaiti 27 <5
Latvian 1 <5
Lebanese 4 <5
Libyan 1 <5
Lithuanian 1 <5
Macanese 1 <5
Macedonian 1 <5
Malaysian 41 <5
Mauritian 2 <5
Moroccan 2 <5
Nepalese 1 <5
New Zealander 7 <5
Nigerian 6 <5
Norwegian 3 <5
Omani 2 <5
Pakistani 26 <5
Peruvian 1 <5
Philippine 5 <5
Polish 6 <5
Portuguese 3 <5
Qatari 5 <5
Romanian 4 <5
Russian 3 <5
Rwandan 2 <5
Saudi Arabian 7 <5
Sierra Leone 1 <5
Singaporean 83 6
Slovenian 2 <5
South African 9 <5
South Korean 23 <5
Spanish 15 <5
Sri Lankan 3 <5
St Kitts and Nevis 3 <5
Sudanese 3 <5
Swedish 4 <5
Swiss 4 <5
Syrian 1 <5
Taiwanese 5 <5
Thai 9 <5
Trinidad and Tobago 3 <5
Tunisian 2 <5
Turkish 8 <5
Ugandan 3 <5
Ukrainian 1 <5
United States citizen 35 <5
Venezuelan 1 <5
Vietnamese 2 <5
Zimbabwean 1 <5

 

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 Director of Information Governance & Data Protection Officer within 60
days of the date of this letter.  

 

Further information about our internal complaints procedure is available
at the link below: 

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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,

 

Lakeisha Dowsey-Magog (she/her)

Information Compliance Officer

Department of Business Assurance

King’s College London

Room: SW1.09

Somerset House East Wing

Strand Campus

WC2R 2LS

 

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