Business Assurance
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Information Compliance
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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