Admission Statistics for MSc Linguistics courses

Dear Billy McGough,

Thank you for your email of 07/03/2020 requesting information about MSc Linguistics admissions. I am writing to let you know that we have received your request. However we are currently experiencing a high volume of requests compounded by unplanned staff absences. We are making all efforts to process requests as quickly as possible. However, we wanted to let you know that you may not receive a response by 03/04/2020 which is 20 working days from the day we received the request.

The University is aware of its obligations to respond to information requests within the statutory deadline. If you do not receive a response to your request by 03/04/2020, you do have the right to ask the University to conduct an internal review of the reasons for the delay. Further information about your rights is available from the Scottish Information Commissioner: http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourR....

We will contact you again to provide an update on the progress of your request. Please accept our apologies for any delay.

The University of Edinburgh's request privacy notice, which describes how we use the information you have supplied about yourself and your request, is published on the University website: https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management/....

Yours sincerely

Records Management

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Dear William McGough,

Thank you for your information request below. As explained in our acknowledgement, we were experiencing a high volume of requests compounded by unplanned staff absences at the time your request was received. We apologise for not being able to progress your request as quickly as we would have hoped.

The University’s working arrangements are now affected by the Coronavirus outbreak and it may be several months before we are able to return to normal operations. While we will make all efforts to process information requests please be aware that in many cases there will be further delay. If you would like to withdraw your request at this time and resubmit it later please let us know.

The Scottish Information Commissioner has issued a statement on the impact of the Covid-19 virus on FOI timescales: http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/home/.... If you do not receive a response to your request within 20 working days of the day we received your request, you do have the right to ask the University to conduct an internal review of the reasons for the delay. If you wish to do this you should write to the Records Management Section (using this email address), describing the original request, explaining your grounds for dissatisfaction, and including an address for correspondence. When the review process has been completed, if you are still dissatisfied, you may use the Scottish Information Commissioner’s guidance on making an appeal to make an appeal to the Commissioner.

However, please note that the legislation only allows requesters to make one internal review request in relation to a request. Therefore if you ask for an internal review on the basis of our response being late, you will not be able to seek a further internal review if you are dissatisfied with the content of the response to your request when you receive it and your next step will be to appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner as described above.

The University of Edinburgh's request privacy notice, which describes how we use the information you have supplied about yourself and your request, is published on the University website.

Yours sincerely

Records Management

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Dear William C McGough

Thank you for your email of 7 March asking for information about admission
statistics for MSc Linguistics programmes.

We apologise again for the delay in responding to your request. Please
find our response attached.

Yours sincerely

Mark Hepworth

Information Compliance Officer

Records Management Section

The University of Edinburgh | Old College | South Bridge | Edinburgh | EH8
9YL

Telephone: 0131 651 4099

Email: [1][University of Edinburgh request email]

Website: [2]http://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland,
with registration number SC005336.

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