Past Exam Papers for undergraduate Biomedical Engineering at King’s College London
Dear King's College London,
Can you release all of the past exam papers taken by Biomedical Engineering undergraduates in year 2 for the years 2015-2022. If possible could you also send the examiner's reports/model answers.
Yours faithfully,
Mary
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Dear Miss Dowsey-Magog,
Thank you for your response.
My full name is Aaiza Mariam Butt. I hope this will validate my request as you mentioned.
Best wishes,
Mary (K21051587)
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Dear Mary,
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 25th December 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
Dear Aaiza Mariam Butt,
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 25^th December 2023 and have
treated it as a request for information made under section 1(1) of the
Act.
You requested the following information:
Can you release all of the past exam papers taken by Biomedical
Engineering undergraduates in year 2 for the years 2015-2022. If possible
could you also send the examiner's reports/model answers.
Our response
The University can confirm it holds past exam papers and external examiner
reports; however, this information has been withheld in accordance with
section 43(2) of the Freedom of Information Act – Commercial Interests.
This information constitutes substantially the ‘assets’ that make up our
degree programmes. As the University’s teaching and academic reputation,
on which student recruitment is largely based, is founded on the
production of world-class module content and rigorous assessment; teaching
and assessment materials produced by an HEI for a degree course can be
considered commercial assets. Even course content from discontinued
modules still has an association with the University’s reputation and a
secondary use in informing current programmes and assessment, which mean
this information retains commercial value long after its primary function
has passed.
The University believes disclosure of the requested information would
prejudice the University’s commercial interests by giving an unfair
advantage to its competitors and by devaluing the University’s own assets.
Universities are required to operate in a highly competitive global market
with other HEIs and, if disclosed, the requested information would be
freely exploited by the University’s competitors to modify their own
teaching and assessment in response. Publication to the world would
also dilute the value of the University’s assets: individuals may believe
they can obtain a similar level of education through use of the materials
alone, prejudicing student recruitment.
The University acknowledges that there is always inherent public interest
in transparent practice, and in the public being able to judge the
validity of the course content and assessment offered by HEIs. However, as
a public authority in receipt of public funds, the University must also
consider the weight of public interest in ensuring the use of public funds
efficiently, through maintaining its ability to operate competitively and
generate income. A significant amount of time and resource is devoted to
producing these assets, they are a core commercial asset of the University
on which student recruitment and retention are based, therefore on this
occasion we find the public interest favours withholding the information.
Moreover, the ICO has found that such reports are commercially sensitive
(as in this decision:
[1]https://icosearch.ico.org.uk/s/redirect?...).
The arguments set out in this decision also apply here.
This completes the university’s response to your information request.
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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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