Dear Judy,

I am writing to acknowledge your requests regarding the A106 and the holistic route, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 received by The University of Manchester today.

Please note that we have merged them into one request for the purposes of costs in accordance with Section 12 (4) (a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, our reference as per the subject line, and you will receive one response to this email address.

The University will respond to your request within 20 working days.

NB Due to the current situation with the Covid-19 virus and the University’s response to it, there may be a delay in receiving your response at this time.

Kind regards

Sharon

Sharon Glen | Information Officer | Information Governance Office | Directorate of Compliance and Risk |Professional Services | G7 Christie Building | The University of Manchester | Oxford Road | Manchester | M13 9PL | Tel +44(0) 161 306 7549| www.manchester.ac.uk

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Dear Judy,

Thank you for your request for information received by The University of
Manchester on 07 September 2020 which was as follows:

Could I please request the following for applicants to your A106 course
assessed via the holistic route:

a) the number of  GCSE offered and the number at each grade

b) the number of A levels offered and the number at each grade

c) the UCAT SJT band

d) the UCAT cognitive score

e) any points allocated from the NAI form

And could you indicate whether each applicant was successful or
unsuccessful in obtaining an interview, please

Can I please request a copy of any guidance or scoring document used by
Assessors selecting applicants for your A106 course via the holistic
route.

The University has now considered your request and unfortunately the
information you are seeking cannot be provided at this time. This is
because the information requested would require time consuming manual
interrogation of the record, this is because the total number of A-levels
offered is not coded on the sift spreadsheet and neither is the total
number of GCSEs offered. Therefore each record would require manually
assessing to extract this information. Around  500-600 applicants a year
are assessed via our holistic route. You haven’t requested a time frame
but even for one year’s worth of data at a conservative estimate of 5
minutes per record this would take between this would take in the region
of 41-50 hours to complete. As such this would take in excess of the 18
hour ‘Appropriate Limit’ (as defined in the Freedom of Information and
Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004). As a
result, Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 applies and
regrettably this task cannot be undertaken at this stage. This email
serves to act as a refusal notice for this request, as per Section 17 (5)
of the Act.

I can advise in relation to point e that there aren’t any points assigned
to this. I can also advise that further details on the full application
process including the holistic route can be found on our website at
[1]https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/under....

If you feel that The University of Manchester has refused access to
information to which you are entitled, or has not dealt with your request
appropriately under the FOIA, you have a right of appeal.

An appeal in the first instance should be directed to the Information
Governance Office at [2][email address]. You should include: 

·         details of your initial request

·         any other relevant information

You must make this appeal within 40 working days from receipt of your
response. We will not accept appeals received after this date, as per the
Freedom of Information Code of Practice, Section 5.3.

The University will deal with your appeal within a reasonable time, and
will inform you of the projected time scale on receipt of your complaint.
You are also welcome to contact the Information Governance Office with
informal questions about the handling of your request. 

After The University’s internal appeals procedure has been exhausted, you
have a further right of appeal to the Information Commissioner’s
Office. Details of this procedure can be found at [3]www.ico.org.uk.

Kind regards

Sharon

Sharon Glen | Information Officer | Information Governance Office |
Directorate of Compliance and Risk |Professional Services | G7 Christie
Building | The University of Manchester | Oxford Road | Manchester | M13
9PL | Tel +44(0) 161 306 7549| [4]www.manchester.ac.uk

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[5]www.dataprotection.manchester.ac.uk

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