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Amisha Chhabra
By email only
to: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
20th December 2023
Dear Amisha Chhabra,
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 in part by the university.
Your request
We received your information request on 28th November 2023 and have treated it as a
request for information made under section 1(1) of the Act.
You requested the following information:
1. Out of the total number of students with 'home fee' status enrolled in an undergraduate course in the
2022-23 academic year, what proportion of students had refugee status?
2. Out of the total number of students with 'international fee' status enrolled in an undergraduate
course in the 2022-23 academic year, what proportion of students had asylum seeker status?
3. What were the main nationalities of applicants with refugee status and asylum seeker status
enrolled in an undergraduate course in the 2022-23 academic year (rank from most to least
common)?
4. Out of the total number of students with 'home fee' status enrolled in an undergraduate course in the
2016/17 academic year, what proportion of students had refugee status?
5. Out of the total number of students with 'international fee' status enrolled in an undergraduate
course in the 2016/17 academic year, what proportion of students had asylum seeker status?
6. What were the main nationalities of applicants with refugee status and asylum seeker status
enrolled in an undergraduate course in the 2016/17 academic year (rank from most to least
common)?
Our response
Refugee and asylum seeker status were not data points gathered or stored during the
King’s enrolment process. This information is provided via self-identification by applicants
on UCAS which is fed into our application database. Please be aware that this data has not
been verified to confirm the applicant’s refugee or asylum seeker status.
No data in this area exists in our records for academic year 2016/7.
For the 2022/3 data used to generate the answers below, this is based on those who self-
identified as a ‘forced migrant’ with UCAS, which is how the data is recorded in our
systems.
Percentage figures rounded to 1 decimal place.
1. Out of the total number of students with 'home fee' status enrolled in an undergraduate course in the
2022-23 academic year, what proportion of students had refugee status?
Those who self-identified as forced migrants made up 0.1% of enrolled undergraduates in
academic year 2022/3 with home fee status.
2. Out of the total number of students with 'international fee' status enrolled in an undergraduate course in
the 2022-23 academic year, what proportion of students had asylum seeker status?
Those who self-identified as forced migrants made up 0.1% of enrolled undergraduates in
academic year 2022/3 with overseas fee status.
3. What were the main nationalities of applicants with refugee status and asylum seeker status enrolled in
an undergraduate course in the 2022-23 academic year (rank from most to least common)?
For those self-identified as forced migrants:
Pakistani
Albanian
Nigerian
British
Ugandan
Sri Lankan
Zimbabwean
Ukrainian
Egyptian
Iranian
Sierra Leone
Hong Kong
Congolese (PR)
Bangladeshi
Georgian
Afghan
Syrian
Turkish
Somali
4. Out of the total number of students with 'home fee' status enrolled in an undergraduate course in the
2016/17 academic year, what proportion of students had refugee status?
5. Out of the total number of students with 'international fee' status enrolled in an undergraduate course in
the 2016/17 academic year, what proportion of students had asylum seeker status?
6. What were the main nationalities of applicants with refugee status and asylum seeker status enrolled in
an undergraduate course in the 2016/17 academic year (rank from most to least common)?
Data for questions 4, 5 & 6 is not held by the university.
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 Director of Information Governance &
Data Protection Officer within 60 days of the date of this letter.
Further information about our internal complaints procedure is available at the link below:
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/policyhub/freedom-of-information-policy 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,
Lakeisha Dowsey-Magog
Information Compliance
