Dear Mr Hemmingway

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your Freedom of Information request
relating to applicants for LLM programmes at The University of Manchester.

The University will respond to your request within 20 working days.

Best regards

Lisa

Dr Lisa Crawley l  Information Officer  l Information Governance Office
l Directorate of Compliance and Risk l  Professional Support Services |
Room G6 Christie Building  l Compliance & Risk Management Office l  The
University of Manchester  l  Oxford Road  l  Manchester  l  M13 9PL  l 
Tel +44 (0)161 275 8400  

Dear Mr Hemmingway,

Thank you for your email requesting the following data:

Across all your LLM programmes, for the three most recent academic years,
I would like to request the following data on applicants who have studied
their undergraduate degrees at UK universities only:

1)i) a) Number of people applying with a predicted 1st and b) Number of
these people given an offer

ii) a) Number of people applying with an achieved 1st and b) Number of
these people given an offer

2)i) a) Number of people applying with a predicted very high 2:1 (overall
67%+) and b) Number of these people given an offer

ii) a) Number of people applying with a predicted very high 2:1 (overall
67%+) and b) Number of these people given an offer

3)i) a) Number of people applying with a predicted a mid 2:1 (overall
64-66%+) and b) Number of these people given an offer

ii) Number of people applying with a predicted a high 2:1 (overall
64-66%+) and b) Number of these people given an offer

4) i) Number of people applying with a predicted a low 2:1 (less than
overall 64%) and b) Number of these people given an offer

ii) Number of people applying with a predicted a low 2:1 (less than
overall 64%) and b) Number of these people given an offer

5) According to the applicant's achieved undergraduate overall percentage
rather than predictions,

i) The number of people with firsts enrolling

ii) The number of people with very high 2:1s enrolling

iii) The number of people with high 2:1s enrolling

iv) The number of people with mid 2:1s enrolling

v) The number of people with low 2:1 enrolling

The University has now considered your request and unfortunately the
information you are seeking cannot be provided at this time. This is
because post-graduate application data is not held in an easily reportable
format. In order to look into providing the data we would need to manually
check the records of all UK or UK educated applicants for their expected
grade.  This would take longer than 18 hours, especially as it would also
require filtering all overseas applicants separately to see where they
were educated (e.g. which country, HEI). 

As it would not be possible to provide this data within the 18 hour
‘Appropriate Limit’ (as defined in the Freedom of Information and Data
Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004), Section 12 of
the Freedom of Information Act 2000 applies and regrettably this task
cannot be undertaken at this stage. This email serves to act as a refusal
notice for this request, as per S.17 (5) of the Act.

Under our Section 16 obligation to provide advice and assistance it may be
possible for the University to provide figures for the numbers of
applications and offers for our LLM programmes. Please write back if you
require this data and we will look into this for you.

The University of Manchester Freedom of Information Act appeals procedure 

If you feel that The University of Manchester has refused access to
information to which you are entitled, or has not dealt with your request
appropriately under the FOIA, you have a right of appeal.

An appeal in the first instance should be directed to the Information
Governance Office at [1][email address]. You should include: 

·         details of your initial request

·         any other relevant information

The University will deal with your appeal within a reasonable time, and
will inform you of the projected time scale on receipt of your complaint.
You are also welcome to contact the Information Governance Office with
informal questions about the handling of your request. 

After The University’s internal appeals procedure has been exhausted, you
have a further right of appeal to the Information Commissioner’s
Office. Details of this procedure can be found at [2]www.ico.org.uk.

Kind regards

Lisa Crawley

Dr Lisa Crawley l  Information Officer  l Information Governance Office
l Directorate of Compliance and Risk l  Professional Support Services |
Room G7 Christie Building  l Compliance & Risk Management Office l  The
University of Manchester  l  Oxford Road  l  Manchester  l  M13 9PL  l 
Tel +44 (0)161 275 8400  

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