BDS Dentistry
Dear King’s College London,
I am writing to you in regards to your BDS Dentistry course.
I wish to enquire
A) How many offer holders were there in 2017 or 2018 with predicted grades of AAA or lower? (Not including graduates)
B) How many interviews were given to applicants in 2017 or 2018 with predicted grades of AAA or lower?
C) How is the UKCAT and GCSEs scales exactly, what percentage weighting is given to each of them and the SJT Bands?
D) How many offer holders had less then 3A* at GCSE?
E) What are the MMIs out of, and what was the average score required in 2017 and 2018?
F) What percentage of applicants with 730 + at interview are rejected prior to interview?
G) When was the first and last offer to interview given in 2018?
Yours faithfully,
Shehr Bano
Dear Shehr,
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 8 October 2018. 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 al so publishes FOI responses on our Disclosure Log.
Kind regards
Jade Roche
Information Compliance Officer
King’s College London
James Clerk Maxwell Building
57 Waterloo Road
London SE1 8WA
Dear Shehr,
Please see attached our response to your information request.
Kind regards
Jade Roche
GDPR Business Analyst
Department of Business Assurance
King’s College London
Room 5.20
James Clerk Maxwell Building
57 Waterloo Road
London SE1 8WA
Email: [email address]
Dear Information Compliance,
Thank you for your response.
Just to clarify, does 2018 mean the 2017/18 cycle?
Yours sincerely,
Shehr Bano
Dear Information Compliance,
Apologies for the second follow up message.
Additionally, does under 5 mean more than 0, as the number has not been specified.
Kind Regards,
Shehr Bano
Dear Shehr,
Both were 1-5. Where the total number of individuals is under 5, the university has replaced the figure with ‘equal to or less than five’ (≤5). The university considers that it is reasonably likely that students could be identified from the low numbers. Such identification would constitute a breach of one of the principles set out in the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA). This approach is in accordance with the Information Commissioner’s Office Code of Practice on Anonymisation. This information is therefore exempt from disclosure under section 40(2) of the Act. This is an absolute exemption which means that the university does not need to consider the public interest in disclosing the information, we only need to establish that the exemption has been engaged.
The methodology the university has adopted is a variation of the HESA standard rounding and suppression method. Numbers that are five or fewer are replaced with “≤5 (less than or equal to five)”; when needed to prevent potential identification all other numbers are rounded to the nearest multiple of five (halves are rounded upwards).
Full details of the HESA methodology can be found on their website:
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/about/regulation/...
suppression-anonymise-statistics
For question C entry means the 2018/2019 academic year.
Kind regards
Jade Roche
Information Compliance Officer
King’s College London
James Clerk Maxwell Building
57 Waterloo Road
London SE1 8WA
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