Dear B Watt
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Dear B Watt,

In order for us to process your request we need to understand more clearly the information you are seeking and I should be grateful if you could clarify the following:

What do you mean by "widening access"? Is this something like contextual scoring or widening participation in any form?

Please be aware that the legal response time of 20 working days for responding to your request will not begin until we receive this clarification from you

Yours sincerely

Swyddfa Ysgrifenydd y Brifysgol
Prifysgol Caerdydd
Ebost : [email address]

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University Secretary's Office
Cardiff University
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Dear B Watt

I am writing in response to your Freedom of Information request dated

For ease of reference, I have reproduced your questions below and set out
our corresponding responses.

Please provide your failure rate for the MB ChB course for the last 5
years.

Please further provide the breakdown of students failing over the last 5
years by sex, ethnicity, disability, fee status and widening access. I can
confirm that it would include any widening participation students
recruited by Cardiff onto the medical degree.

            Here is the data for the FOI – when looking at characteristics
the % is the % of students with that characteristic who fail – i.e. the %
of students who are male who fail:

┌─────────────────────┬─────┐
│2018/9 │0.57%│
├─────────────────────┼─────┤
│2021/2 │1.07%│
├─────────────────────┼─────┤
│2022/3 │1.02%│
├─────────────────────┼─────┤
│  │ │
│ │ │
│┌──────┬──────┬─────┐│ │
││2018/9│Female│0.43%││ │
│├──────┼──────┼─────┤│ │
││2018/9│Male │0.84%││ │
│├──────┼──────┼─────┤│ │
│├──────┼──────┼─────┤│ │
││2021/2│Female│1.17%││ │
│├──────┼──────┼─────┤│ │
││2021/2│Male │0.88%││ │
│├──────┼──────┼─────┤│ │
│├──────┼──────┼─────┤│ │
││2022/3│Female│0.85%││ │
│├──────┼──────┼─────┤│ │
││2022/3│Male │1.38%││ │
│└──────┴──────┴─────┘│  │
└─────────────────────┴─────┘

┌─────────┬────────────────────────────────┬─────────┐
│2018/9 │Known to be disabled │ 1.21%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2018/9 │No known disability │ 0.49%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2021/2 │Known to be disabled │ 2.33%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2021/2 │No known disability │ 0.90%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │Known to be disabled │ 0.61%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │No known disability │ 1.08%│
└─────────┴────────────────────────────────┴─────────┘

┌─────────┬────────────────────────────────┬─────────┐
│2018/9 │Asian │ 0.64%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2018/9 │Mixed │ 1.59%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2018/9 │Not Known │ 3.70%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2018/9 │White │ 0.44%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2021/2 │Asian │ 2.45%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2021/2 │Black │ 1.96%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2021/2 │White │ 0.68%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │Arab │ 2.00%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │Asian │ 1.45%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │Black │ 1.75%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │Mixed │ 1.92%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │Not Known │ 9.09%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │White │ 0.59%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│  │ │ │
│ │ │ │
│2018/9 │Not IMD 20 & 40 │ 0.68%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2021/2 │IMD 20 & 40 │ 2.27%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2021/2 │Not IMD 20 & 40 │ 0.79%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │IMD 20 & 40 │ 2.26%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │Not IMD 20 & 40 │ 0.94%│
└─────────┴────────────────────────────────┴─────────┘

┌─────────┬────────────────────────────────┬─────────┐
│2018/9 │Mature │ 2.44%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2018/9 │Young │ 0.52%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2021/2 │Young │ 1.12%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │Young │ 1.06%│
└─────────┴────────────────────────────────┴─────────┘

┌─────────┬────────────────────────────────┬─────────┐
│2018/9 │Not Welsh Speaker │ 0.65%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2021/2 │Welsh Speaker │ 1.57%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2021/2 │Not Welsh Speaker │ 0.96%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │Welsh Speaker │ 0.40%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │Not Welsh Speaker │ 1.16%│
└─────────┴────────────────────────────────┴─────────┘

┌─────────┬─────────────────────────────────┬────────┐
│2018/9 │Estranged - Information Refused │ 16.67%│
├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
│2018/9 │Not Estranged │ 0.47%│
├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
│2018/9 │Estranged - Unknown │ 0.84%│
├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
│2021/2 │Not Estranged │ 1.19%│
├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
│2022/3 │Not Estranged │ 0.97%│
├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
│2022/3 │Estranged - Unknown │ 1.64%│
└─────────┴─────────────────────────────────┴────────┘

┌─────────┬────────────────────────────────┬─────────┐
│2018/9 │Not a Carer │ 0.53%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2018/9 │Carer - Not Known │ 2.00%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2021/2 │Not a Carer │ 1.11%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │Not a Carer │ 1.05%│
└─────────┴────────────────────────────────┴─────────┘

┌─────────┬────────────────────────────────┬─────────┐
│2018/9 │Home │ 0.54%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2018/9 │Overseas │ 0.95%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2021/2 │Home │ 1.16%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │Home │ 0.95%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │Overseas │ 1.79%│
└─────────┴────────────────────────────────┴─────────┘

┌──────┬──────────────────────────────────────┬──────┐
│ │Not a care leaver/No experience of │ │
│2018/9│care │ 0.88%│
├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼──────┤
│2018/9│Care Experienced - Unknown │ 0.28%│
├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼──────┤
├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼──────┤
│ │Not a care leaver/No experience of │ │
│2021/2│care │ 1.29%│
├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼──────┤
├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼──────┤
│ │Not a care leaver/No experience of │ │
│2022/3│care │ 0.89%│
├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼──────┤
│2022/3│Care Experienced - Prefer not to say │25.00%│
├──────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼──────┤
│2022/3│Care Experienced - Unknown │ 1.54%│
└──────┴──────────────────────────────────────┴──────┘

┌───────┬────────────────────────────────────┬───────┐
│2018/9 │Asylum Seeker - Information Refused │ 25.00%│
├───────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────┤
│2018/9 │Not Asylum Seeker │ 0.35%│
├───────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────┤
│2018/9 │Asylum Seeker - Unknown │ 1.26%│
├───────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────┤
├───────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────┤
│2021/2 │Not Asylum Seeker │ 2.59%│
├───────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────┤
│2021/2 │Asylum Seeker - Unknown │ 0.12%│
├───────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────┤
├───────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────┤
│2022/3 │Not Asylum Seeker │ 3.08%│
├───────┼────────────────────────────────────┼───────┤
│2022/3 │Asylum Seeker - Unknown │ 0.20%│
└───────┴────────────────────────────────────┴───────┘

┌─────────┬────────────────────────────────┬─────────┐
│2018/9 │Not Refugee │ 1.57%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2018/9 │Refugee - Unknown │ 0.47%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2021/2 │Not Refugee │ 0.62%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2021/2 │Refugee - Unknown │ 1.71%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │Not Refugee │ 0.63%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │Refugee - Unknown │ 1.92%│
└─────────┴────────────────────────────────┴─────────┘

┌──────┬─────────────────────────────────┬─────┐
│2018/9│Parents not HE Educated - Unknown│0.74%│
├──────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────┤
│2018/9│Parents HE Educated │0.65%│
├──────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────┤
├──────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────┤
│2021/2│Parents not HE Educated │1.86%│
├──────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────┤
│2021/2│Parents HE Educated │1.21%│
├──────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────┤
├──────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────┤
│2022/3│Parents not HE Educated │2.80%│
├──────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────┤
│2022/3│Parents not HE Educated - Unknown│0.84%│
├──────┼─────────────────────────────────┼─────┤
│2022/3│Parents HE Educated │0.65%│
└──────┴─────────────────────────────────┴─────┘

┌─────────┬─────────────────────────────────┬────────┐
│2018/9 │Not Military Experienced │ 0.47%│
├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
│2018/9 │Military Experienced - Unknown │ 0.84%│
├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
│2018/9 │Military Experienced │ 8.33%│
├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
│2021/2 │Not Military Experienced │ 1.19%│
├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
│2022/3 │Not Military Experienced │ 0.97%│
├─────────┼─────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
│2022/3 │Military Experienced - Unknown │ 1.64%│
└─────────┴─────────────────────────────────┴────────┘

┌─────────┬────────────────────────────────┬─────────┐
│2018/9 │POLAR4 - Quintiles 1 & 2 │ 0.43%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2018/9 │Not POLAR4 - Quintiles 1 & 2 │ 0.60%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2021/2 │POLAR4 - Quintiles 1 & 2 │ 2.44%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2021/2 │Not POLAR4 - Quintiles 1 & 2 │ 0.72%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │POLAR4 - Quintiles 1 & 2 │ 1.70%│
├─────────┼────────────────────────────────┼─────────┤
│2022/3 │Not POLAR4 - Quintiles 1 & 2 │ 0.83%│
└─────────┴────────────────────────────────┴─────────┘

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