This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Freedom of Information request 'BSc Geography Admission Statistics'.


   
Business Assurance 
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Information Compliance 
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Tel:   020 7848 7816 
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J Singh 
By email only to: 
 
23 October 2020 
 
Dear J Singh,   
 
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 October 2020 and have treated it as a 
request for information made under section 1(1) of the Act. 
 
You requested the following information: 
 
I am writing to you regarding your BSc Geography (F800) course. 
Could you please provide myself with an Excel spreadsheet with the following data/information 
from the last 2 admission cycles: 
1) A Level grades (predicted) 
2) A Level grades (achieved) 
3) Whether an offer was made 
 
Also, how many people applied for the course and how many offers were made? 
 
Our response 
 
Response in the spreadsheet attached, notes below. 
-  Data has been provided as it is stored in our systems.  
o  Our database stores the qualifications one row per qualification. 
o  A ‘unique ID’ has been applied to each application for the purposes 
of this FOI to help the requester identify the relevant data. 

  
-  There are two databases where we store qualifications 
o  SQE – UCAS provide us the grades if an applicant was studying the 
qualification at the time of application. UCAS verify these grades so 
they are the most reliable. 
▪  SQE data is stored by applicant and not by application. This 
means that if an applicant has applied for a course in two 
separate years at King’s, there could be duplications in the 
qualifications (i.e. not all of the qualifications will be relevant 
to the course applied for).  
o  SQF – if an applicant has already achieved their qualification, they 
would input this onto their application themselves. If the qualification 
was a condition of their offer, we would ask for proof of their award 
before issuing an unconditional offer. These grades are not 
necessarily accurate. 
-  Resits/remarks may be included in the data. 
 
 
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/assets/files/governance_and_legal/Freed
om_of_Information_Policy_updated_Oct_%202011.pdf 
 
 
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 
 
Olenka Cogias 
Information Compliance