Medicine PQA

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Compliance team will be in touch separately with official acknowledgement
of your request.

Kind regards,

Information Compliance

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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...

Please see p.6-8, specifically the section 'The definition of a real name', in the ICO Guidance quoted from above to assist you in making your request valid: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s...

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

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 Rudra Patel,
 
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 12th June 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 Rudra,

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

You requested the following information:

Can I please request the statistics on applicants who applied to study
medicine at KCL PQA, so those who had already completed their A-levels and
were applying with achieved grades in 2019, 2021, and 2022. Hence, a post
qualification application.

Could you please include their:

GCSE grades attained

A-level Grades attained

UCAT score attained

And if they were offered an interview, and were given a place at the
university.

Our response

The attached appendix provides details relevant to your request. Please
consider the notices in red when analysing the data.

Please Note:

We have interpreted the PQA element of the request as referring to
applicants who applied and inputted qualification data for three or more
achieved A Levels at the point of application.

Note that some of these applicants may have been made conditional offers
nonetheless based on achievements in non-A Level qualifications or resits.

The qualification data shown here comes from free-text data sources
inputted by the applicant at the point of application. This data is
therefore not necessarily accurate. If any of the qualifications submitted
to us from this dataset were necessary to make an offer to the applicant,
then these would have been verified by our Admissions team as accurate
prior to an offer being made.

Where no UCAT data has been identified for an applicant, it is likely that
no UCAT data was submitted to KCL at the point of application.

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]http://www.kcl.ac.uk/college/policyzone/...

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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