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Dear Liam,

Thank you for your request.

Before we can proceed we require some clarification. Could you please confirm what is meant by "fee status"?

This information will assist us in gathering the requested information.

Kind regards,

Rowan Glover-Perrett
Data Protection and Freedom of Information Administrator
Data Protection Office
Office of the General Counsel
University College London
 
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Dear Liam,

Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) 2000. I apologise for the delay in the provision of
this response.

We confirm that we do hold some of the information of the description
specified in your request; please see our response below and attached.

Your request

I do kindly request a detailed breakdown of the admissions statistics for
the university's postgraduate courses in the 2024 entry.

If possible, I would be most grateful if you could provide the number of
applicants, the number of offers made, and the actual intake for each
course, grouped according to fee status.

Our response

Please see our response attached. Please also note the following:

• Intake figures for the current academic year are not finalised until
early November, so the intake data provided is incomplete.

• As you will see, exact numbers of students totalling 5 or fewer have
been withheld. This is because to provide the exact numbers may
inadvertently lead to the identification of these individuals. Whilst
there are no personally identifiable details within the data being
withheld, that data, when combined with other data that may already be
available in the public domain, could be used by ‘motivated intruders’
and other knowledgeable third parties to identify the individuals
concerned. Linking together separate strands of data available in this
way can indirectly lead to an individual being identified which would
breach the first data protection principle. Further, these individuals
would have no expectation that their identities, by virtue of
disclosing this type of information, would be made known to the wider
public and it would be considered unfair to do so.

As this data would be likely to become personal data, this information is
exempt from disclosure and has been withheld under section 40(2) of the
FOIA by virtue of s40(3A)(a). Section 40(2) of the FOIA allows a public
authority to withhold information under the FOIA where (i) the requested
information is personal data relating to someone other than the requester
and (ii) its disclosure would breach any of the data protection
principles. It is for these reasons that this information is exempt under
section 40(2) of the Act. As the section 40(2) exemption is absolute,
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You should do this within two months of our final decision. Further
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Kind regards,

Rowan Glover-Perrett

Data Protection and Freedom of Information Adviser

Data Protection Office

Office of the General Counsel

University College London

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