Dear Mr Xue,

We will treat your request for information as a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, received by the university on 11th August 2017. 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.

Kind regards

Jade Roche
Information Compliance Officer

King’s College London
James Clerk Maxwell Building
London SE1 8WA

Dear Mr Xue,

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 by the university.

Your request

We received your information request on 11 August 2017 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 request for information for the BDS Dentistry admissions.
Please provide me an excel sheet with the following information for each of the latest 2 admission cycle for the BDS Dentistry course:
* UKCAT score
* A-level subject grades (predicted)
* Home / International (non-EU)
* Interviewed / Not interviewed
* Made an offer / Not made an offer
* Enrolled / Applicant declined offer / Applicant did not meet offer

The latest 2 admission cycle - 2015/16 and 2016/17 If you do not have 2016/17, then please provide for 2014/15 and 2015/16

Our response

Please see the attached document.
Please note that the university employs a rounding methodology when disclosing statistical information linked to student or staff numbers. This is to reduce the risk of an individual being identified from this, or any other dataset released by the university or another organisation. This is in line with ICO recommendations for anonymising datasets under section 40(2) of the Act.

The methodology the university has adopted is a variation of the HESA standard rounding and suppression method. In this case as the level of information provided can potentially follow individual’s journeys onto the course the UKCAT rounded to nearest 10 to maintain anonymity.
Full details of the HESA methodology can be found on their website:
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/about/regulation/...
suppression-anonymise-statistics

Please also note that highest 3 A Level grades listed where data on 3 A Levels was provided to us via UCAS. In cases where a successful applicant has completed grades appear too low (e.g. ACC), the applicant may have completed a qualification in the intervening time, such as a degree. Grades with (P) after them are predicted grades.
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 Assistant Director of Business Assurance (Information Compliance) within 60 days of the date of this letter.

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

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/college/policyzone/...

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

Jade Roche
Information Compliance Officer

King’s College London
57 Waterloo Road
London SE1 8WA