Thank you for your email.  

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erasure via a third-party, before we can proceed with your request we
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Dear Applicant,

Further to your request for information, we need to inform you that your request is not valid under Section 8 (1) (b) of the FOIA (2000) https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/200...

In order to make your request valid please provide your full name,

For further information, please see p.6-8, specifically the section 'The definition of a real name', in the ICO Guidance quoted from above.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Kind Regards,

Lakeisha Dowsey-Magog (she/her)
Information Compliance Officer
Department of Business Assurance
King's College London
Room: SW1.09
Somerset House East Wing
Strand Campus
WC2R 2LS

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Dear Sia,  

Thank you for your email. We will treat your request for information as a
request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, received by the
university on 9th November 2023. We will endeavour to respond to your
request within the statutory 20 working day time frame. 

Please note that the university has adopted the Model Publication Scheme
and also publishes FOI responses on our Disclosure Log. The Fees
Regulations state that requests received within 60 consecutive working
days can be aggregated.  

Kind Regards,

Lakeisha Dowsey-Magog (she/her)

Information Compliance Officer

Department of Business Assurance

King’s College London

Room: SW1.09

Somerset House East Wing

Strand Campus

WC2R 2LS

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Dear Sia,

As a result of enquires with the relevant department, they have requested
the following clarification:

Please clarify the second part of the question - “Additionally, Could I
obtain the number of students in the years 2020-2023 that applied to UCAS
with one and 2 grades below for life sciences courses and Biomedical
engineering (BEng) and achieved an aspirational offer”.

We would like to ask for clarification about what is meant by an
aspirational offer?

Your request has been put on hold until we hear from you. Once we receive
clarification, the university will respond to your request as soon as
possible.

Kind Regards,

Lakeisha Dowsey-Magog (she/her)

Information Compliance Officer

Department of Business Assurance

King’s College London

Room: SW1.09

Somerset House East Wing

Strand Campus

WC2R 2LS

From: Lakeisha Dowsey-Magog On Behalf Of Information Compliance
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2023 4:22 PM
To: 'Sia' <[FOI #1044093 email]>
Subject: King's College London - Freedom of Information Request: 761.23

Dear Sia,  

Thank you for your email. We will treat your request for information as a
request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, received by the
university on 9th November 2023. We will endeavour to respond to your
request within the statutory 20 working day time frame. 

Please note that the university has adopted the Model Publication Scheme
and also publishes FOI responses on our Disclosure Log. The Fees
Regulations state that requests received within 60 consecutive working
days can be aggregated.  

Kind Regards,

Lakeisha Dowsey-Magog (she/her)

Information Compliance Officer

Department of Business Assurance

King’s College London

Room: SW1.09

Somerset House East Wing

Strand Campus

WC2R 2LS

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Thank you for your email.  

Please note, if you are sending an automated request for personal data
erasure via a third-party, before we can proceed with your request we
require a copy of your ID, scanned copy of a driving licence/passport.

If your enquiry is related to a current application to study at King's
please contact the relevant admissions team directly:

[1]https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/undergraduat...

For all other enquiries relating to requests made under the Freedom of
Information Act (2000), the Environmental Information Regulations (2004),
or the Data Protection Act and UK GDPR (2018) a member of the Information
Compliance team will be in touch separately with official acknowledgement
of your request.

Kind regards,

Information Compliance

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Dear Sia,

Thank you for your clarification received on 18th December 2023.

We are now processing your request and will endeavour to respond to your request within 20 working days.

Kind Regards,

Lakeisha Dowsey-Magog (she/her)
Information Compliance Officer
Department of Business Assurance
King’s College London
Room: SW1.09
Somerset House East Wing
Strand Campus
WC2R 2LS

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Dear Sia Bhasin,

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 18^th December 2023 and have
treated it as a request for information made under section 1(1) of the
Act.

You requested the following information:

Life sciences and engineering data for years 2020-2023

Please could I obtain which courses went into clearing and how many people
were enrolled after clearing - separated into International and Home
students in the years 2020-2023, in a pdf file. Additionally, Could I
obtain the number of students in the years 2020-2023 that applied to UCAS
with one and 2 grades below for life sciences courses and Biomedical
engineering (BEng) and achieved an aspirational offer.

You provided the below clarification, upon request, on the 18^th December
2023:

In regards to your query, when referring to students who "achieved an
aspirational offer," I meant students who were offered admission to a
university program (in this case, life sciences courses and Biomedical
Engineering) despite having grades one grade below the standard entry
requirements. For example, a student predicted AAB applying for the
neuroscience course with entry requirements AAA.

Our response

Life sciences and engineering data for years 2020-2023

Please could I obtain which courses went into clearing and how many people
were enrolled after clearing - separated into International and Home
students in the years 2020-2023, in a pdf file. Additionally, Could I
obtain the number of students in the years 2020-2023 that applied to UCAS
with one and 2 grades below for life sciences courses and Biomedical
engineering (BEng) and achieved an aspirational offer.

In regards to your query, when referring to students who "achieved an
aspirational offer," I meant students who were offered admission to a
university program (in this case, life sciences courses and Biomedical
Engineering) despite having grades one grade below the standard entry
requirements. For example, a student predicted AAB applying for the
neuroscience course with entry requirements AAA.

We have given careful consideration to your request and have determined
that the cost of complying would exceed the appropriate limit set out in
The [1]Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and
Fees) Regulations 2004 and we are therefore refusing to comply with your
information request under section 12(1) of the Act. Once it has been
determined Section 12 applies to a request the public authority is not
obliged to search up to the limit. 

The appropriate limit for Higher Education Institutions, such as King’s
College London, is currently set at £450 which represents the cost of one
person spending more than 18 hours identifying, locating, retrieving and
extracting information falling within the scope of your request.  

The Student and Education Directorate have confirmed that although the
data is held on our databases it cannot be retrieved automatically. To
confirm the “aspirational offer” information for other courses, for all
the overseas offers, would require a manual review of the offers, and
further research to determine what is “under” or “over” the offer
conditions for each qualification. This task is estimated to exceed the 18
working hour limit.

In the interests of transparency, the university has provided what
information it can within the appropriate limit:

In order to remain within the statutory time limit, we can only provide
data on A Level offers for Biomedical Engineering.

Please Note:

Data presented by UCAS cycle, for applicants who provided at least three A
level qualification predicted grades at the point of application for the
course with UCAS code, H160.

The table below shows the number of offer-holders who provided predicted
grades that would not have met their A level offer conditions, should
those predicted grades have been achieved grades (as in the example
provided in the question).

┌──────────┬─────┐
│UCAS cycle│Count│
├──────────┼─────┤
│ 2020 │ 20 │
├──────────┼─────┤
│ 2021 │ 18 │
├──────────┼─────┤
│ 2022 │ 4 │
├──────────┼─────┤
│ 2023 │ 3 │
└──────────┴─────┘

The university may be able to disclose further information if you are
prepared to narrow the scope of your request. For example, if you would
like to get “aspirational offer” information for other courses, please
state the specific courses you want to know about and specify the type of
offer-holders you are interested in.  However, we cannot confirm at this
stage if this would bring your request under the appropriate limit, or
that another exemption will not apply. 

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:

[2]https://www.kcl.ac.uk/policyhub/freedom-...

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 (she/her)

Information Compliance Officer

Department of Business Assurance

King’s College London

Room: SW1.09

Somerset House East Wing

Strand Campus

WC2R 2LS

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Thank you for your email.  

Please note, if you are sending an automated request for personal data
erasure via a third-party, before we can proceed with your request we
require a copy of your ID, scanned copy of a driving licence/passport.

If your enquiry is related to a current application to study at King's
please contact the relevant admissions team directly:

[1]https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/undergraduat...

For all other enquiries relating to requests made under the Freedom of
Information Act (2000), the Environmental Information Regulations (2004),
or the Data Protection Act and UK GDPR (2018) a member of the Information
Compliance team will be in touch separately with official acknowledgement
of your request.

Kind regards,

Information Compliance

References

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Dear Sia,
 
Thank you for your email. We will treat your request for information as a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, received by the university on 11th January 2024. We will endeavour to respond to your request within the statutory 20 working day time frame.
 
Please note that the university has adopted the Model Publication Scheme and also publishes FOI responses on our Disclosure Log. The Fees Regulations state that requests received within 60 consecutive working days can be aggregated.

Kind Regards,

Lakeisha Dowsey-Magog (she/her)
Information Compliance Officer
Department of Business Assurance
King’s College London
Room: SW1.09
Somerset House East Wing
Strand Campus
WC2R 2LS

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Dear Sia Bhasin,

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 11^th January 2024 and have
treated it as a request for information made under section 1(1) of the
Act.

You requested the following information:

I would like to seek additional details specifically related to the field
of Medical Physiology. Kindly consider this as a supplementary request
within the scope of my original inquiry.

Specifically, I am interested in obtaining information on the number of
students who applied to UCAS with one and two grades below the standard
entry requirements for Medical Physiology courses within the mentioned
timeframe (2020-2023).

Our response

Regarding the data provided for the course with UCAS code, B120:

The request had been interpreted as asking for those applicants who
provided three or more predicted A Level grades at the point of
application, how many had a top three predicted A Level grade profile that
was equivalent to one or two grades below the required A Levels detailed
on the course webpage.

For the 2020 and 2021 UCAS cycles, the required A Levels detailed on the
course webpage were: AAB.

There were two applicants in the 2020 cycle who provided three or more
predicted A Level grades, such that their top three predicted grades were
one grade below the AAB requirement.

There were two applicants in the 2021 cycle who provided three or more
predicted A Level grades, such that their top three predicted grades were
one grade below the AAB requirement; and two applicants with two grades
below the AAB requirement.

For the 2022 and 2023 UCAS cycles, the required A Levels detailed on the
course webpage were: AAA.

There were no applicants in the 2022 cycle who provided three or more
predicted A Level grades, such that their top three predicted grades were
below the AAA requirement.

There was one applicant in the 2023 cycle who provided three or more
predicted A Level grades, such that their top three predicted grades were
one grade below the AAA requirement.

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:

[1]https://www.kcl.ac.uk/policyhub/freedom-...

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 (she/her)

Information Compliance Officer

Department of Business Assurance

King’s College London

Room: SW1.09

Somerset House East Wing

Strand Campus

WC2R 2LS

References

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