Business Assurance
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Information Compliance
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Email:
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James Walker
By email only to:
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3rd March 2020
Dear James,
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 10th February 2020 and have treated it as
a request for information made under section 1(1) of the Act.
You requested the following information:
All the following questions are related the courses G100, G103 Mathematics. For the academic
years 2018/2019 and 2019/2020. If possible, separate the data related to mature students from
non-mature students for all of the following questions. (Whenever this is not possible, please make
clear that the specific data include both mature and non-mature students)
• Number of applicants, offer holders, successful and unsuccessful applications. (Do not consider
withdrawals, just students refused because they missed the offer requirements)
• How many applicants took 3 A-Levels, 4 A-Level or different qualifications. One column for
each of those three categories. In different qualifications you can include anything else that doesn't fit
the previous two.
• The *lowest* A-Level grades accepted for each academic year and the subject of those A-Levels.
For example: Maths A, Further Maths A, Physics B. (Consider only A-Level qualifications)
• The aimed number of successful application for each academic year. How many students were
you aiming to get.
• Number of people acquired through clearing and adjustment. (Keep each category separated and include
those only if the data are easily accessible)
Our response
Please find attached an Excel spreadsheet containing the information you have
requested. In addition, the following information is provided to help you better
understand the data.
• King’s defines a mature student as any person beginning their first undergraduate
degree at the age of 21 or over.
• ‘Offer holders’ for the purposes of this data refers to those who were made a
conditional or unconditional offer.
• ‘Successful’ for the purposes of this data refers to those who enrolled.
• ‘Unsuccessful’ for the purposes of this data refers to those who were made a
conditional offer and then subsequently rejected.
• ‘Lowest accepted’ has been determined by how far away from the entry
requirements an applicant was. ‘Dropped 1’ means that they missed their offer by 1
grade, e.g. AAB instead of AAA. ‘Equivalent’ means the applicant may have got
equivalent grades e.g. A*AB instead of AAA. ‘Met’ means the applicant met their
offer exactly. Note that this information may include widening participation
applicants. In all cases applicants will have been required to meet the specified
subject requirements.
• We are unable to provide individual intake targets for these programmes since
they are part of a larger group of programmes with a single overall target.
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
