Dear George,

I am writing to acknowledge your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 received by The University of Manchester on 25 October 2019, our reference as per the subject line.

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

Kind regards

Sharon

Sharon Glen | Information Officer | Information Governance Office | Directorate of Compliance and Risk |Professional Services | G7 Christie Building | The University of Manchester | Oxford Road | Manchester | M13 9PL | Tel +44(0) 161 306 7549| www.manchester.ac.uk

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Dear George,

Thank you for your request for information received by The University of
Manchester on 25 October 2019 which was as follows:

I am requesting data for candidates who were given offers for your
single-honours law course for entry in September/October 2019 or deferred
entry in September/October 2020 (“the offerholders”). The UCAS code for
this course is M100. These offerholders will have applied during the
2018/2019 UCAS admissions cycle.

The data I am requesting is as follows:

[Q1]

The number of offerholders for this course over the course of this
admissions cycle

[Q2]

For offerholders with predicted A-levels:

The average number of A* grades predicted The average number of A grades
predicted The average number of B grades predicted The average number of C
grades predicted The average number of D grades predicted

[Q3]

For offerholders who had already achieved A-levels:

The average number of A* grades achieved The average number of A grades
achieved The average number of B grades achieved The average number of C
grades achieved The average number of D grades achieved

[Q4]

For offerholders with predicted IB grades:

The average total point score predicted (out of 45)

[Q5]

For offerholders with achieved IB grades:

The average total point score achieved (out of 45)

[Q6]

A full list of GCSE and IGCSE grades achieved by each offerholder at the
time of their application. These grades should be grouped/separated by
candidate, and expressed in the following format:

Anonymous Offerholder 1: 99988877655

Anonymous Offerholder 2: 998887776

Anonymous Offerholder 3: A*A*A*A*A*A*AAAB Anonymous Offerholder 4:
AAAAAAAABBBBB etc.

The University has now considered your request and unfortunately the
information you are seeking cannot be provided at this time. I have
explained the reasons for this further below.

To determine if the information you have requested is held, we referred
your request to the School of Law. They have advised that the information
in relation to grades that you have requested is not recorded in such a
way that it can be automatically extracted from a system to present the
data in the way you have requested. It is also not possible to extract
this data from the main student system. Therefore in order to be able to
provide the information you have requested we would need to go into each
offer holder’s record separately and note down the grades predicted and
achieved, to collate the information for you. Therefore we would need to
manually check hundreds of records to extract the data that you have
requested.

Unfortunately due to the large number of records that would need manually
checking, we have been advised that this task would take in excess of the
18 hour ‘Appropriate Limit’ (as defined in the Freedom of Information and
Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004). As a
result, 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 Section 17 (5)
of the Act.

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

Sharon

Sharon Glen | Information Officer | Information Governance Office |
Directorate of Compliance and Risk |Professional Services | G7 Christie
Building | The University of Manchester | Oxford Road | Manchester | M13
9PL | Tel +44(0) 161 306 7549| [3]www.manchester.ac.uk

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