INFORMATION COMPLIANCE TEAM
University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD
Ref: 202405/465
20 June 2024
Reply to request for information under the Freedom of Information Act
Your ref
Email of 26 May 2024
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I would like to request the following in regards to the A100 Medicine Course for the years
2018-2023:
- Number of international applicants (excluding EU students) to each College
Request
- Number of international applicants (excluding EU students) who were invited to interview
by each College
- Number of international applicants (excluding EU students) who were made an offer by
each College
Please separate the data by the various Oxford Colleges, not the University as a whole.
Dear Nicholas,
I write in reply to your email requesting the information detailed above.
Please refer to the attached dataset. We consider that disclosure of this information in the exact form requested
might enable those with access to other information or knowledge to identify individuals and learn new
information about those individuals e.g. those on the same course or at the same college. For this reason, we
have taken a number of measures to reduce the risk of identification, including aggregating data wherever
possible; and redaction instances of less than three, including zero.
In taking these measures, we are applying the exemption in section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA). Section 40(2) provides an exemption from disclosure for information that is the personal data of an
individual other than the requester, where disclosure would breach any of the data protection principles in Article
5 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We consider that disclosure of the information requested
in the exact form requested would breach the first data protection principle, which requires that personal data
is processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner. Disclosure would be unfair to the individuals concerned,
as it would be contrary to their reasonable and legitimate expectations. They would not reasonably expect that
information relating to their application to Oxford would be made public under the FOIA without their consent.
For the disclosure of personal data to be lawful, it must have a lawful basis under Article 6 of the GDPR. There
are six possible lawful bases in Article 6; we do not consider that any of them would be satisfied in respect of
the disclosure.
The exemption in section 40(2) is an absolute exemption and is not subject to the public interest test provided
for in section 2(2)(b) of the FOIA. To the extent that the public interest is relevant in this case, the University
considers it is satisfied by the information provided.
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INTERNAL REVIEW
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g xxx@xxxxx.xx.xx.xx. A request for internal review should be submitted no later than 40 working days from the date of this letter.
THE INFORMATION COMMISSIONER
If, after the internal review, you are still dissatisfied, you have the right under FOIA to apply to the Information
Commissioner for a decision as to whether your request has been dealt with in accordance with the FOIA. You
can do this online using the
Information Commissioner’s complaints portal.
Yours sincerely
FOI Oxford
Information Compliance Team
