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Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xx.xx
Hamza Ahmed
By email only to: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
8 August 2018
Dear Hamza,
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 30 July 2018 and have treated it as a request for
information made under section 1(1) of the Act.
I would like to request for information for the Graduate BDS Dentistry admissions (A202).
Please provide me an excel sheet with the following information for each of the latest 2 admission cycle for
the Graduate BDS Dentistry course (A202):
* UKCAT score
* A-level subject grades
*Bachelors Degree grade
* Home / International (non-EU)
* Interviewed / Not interviewed
* Made an offer / Not made an offer
* Enrolled / Applicant declined offer / Applicant did not meet offer
And the total number of applicants who applied and total number given offers.
The latest 2 admission cycle - 2016/17 and 2017/2018 If you do not have 2017/18, then please provide for
2016/17 and 2015/16
Our response
Please see attached document.
Please note the following:
- This is the data for the 2016/17 and 2017/18 Admissions Cycles.
- This data only includes those who were interviewed for the course as we hold complete
data for these applicants.
- This data includes only applicants who applied to the course with a UKCAT score.
- For anonymity purposes UKCAT scores have been allocated into bands.
- For anonymity purposes each applicant's information is not listed, instead there is a count
of how many applicants met the conditions provided.
Also, as requested:
Cycle
Applications Offers
2016/7
230
31
2017/8
249
22
Where the total number of individuals are 5 or under the university has replaced the figure
with ‘equal to or less than five’ (≤5). The university considers that it is reasonably likely
that students could be identified from the low numbers. Such identification would
constitute a breach of one of the principles set out in the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA).
This approach is in accordance with the Information Commissioner’s Office Code of
Practice on Anonymisation. This information is therefore exempt from disclosure under
section 40(2) of the Act. This is an absolute exemption which means that the university
does not need to consider the public interest in disclosing the information, we only need to
establish that the exemption has been engaged.
The methodology the university has adopted is a variation of the HESA standard rounding
and suppression method. Numbers that are five or fewer are replaced with “≤5 (less than or
equal to five)”; when needed to prevent potential identification all other numbers are
rounded to the nearest multiple of five (halves are rounded upwards).
Full details of the HESA methodology can be found on their website:
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/about/regulation/data-protection/rounding-and-
suppression-anonymise-statistics
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/Freedom_of
_Information_Policy_updated_Oct_%202011.pdf If 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
