Student deaths

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Under the freedom of information act, please can I request the following information in relation to your university and any institutions you accredit degrees for.

a) The number of student deaths in each calender year of 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as the first quarter of 2022 (with separate figures for each year please);

b) Of these, the number of student deaths recorded as suicide by a coroner in each calender year of 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as the first quarter of 2022;

c) For each death recorded as suicide by a coroner, the date of death;

d) For each death recorded as suicide by a coroner, the campus or college which the student had been attending (if your institution has more than one college/campus).

If the following request cannot be met within cost limits, please can you provide me with advice on how I might refine my request?

Yours faithfully,

Claire Wilde

Freedom Of Information Requests, University of Essex

Dear Claire,

Thank you for your enquiry dated 19th April, received by us on the same date, concerning student deaths here at the University of Essex. Your request will be handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

We will come back to you as soon as we can and within 20 working days (18th May). In the meantime if you have any questions about your request, please let me know.

Regards,

Alex Pinagli BA (Hons) MA (Hons)
Information Assurance Assistant
Freedom of Information Team
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
University of Essex

E [University of Essex request email]
E [email address]
www.essex.ac.uk

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Dear Claire,

 

Thank you for your enquiry dated 19^th April, received by us on the same
date concerning student deaths here at the University of Essex. Your
request is being handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please
see our response below.

 

Your Request

 

a) The number of student deaths in each calendar year of 2018, 2019, 2020,
2021, as well as the first quarter of 2022 (with separate figures for each
year please);

 

b) Of these, the number of student deaths recorded as suicide by a coroner
in each calendar year of 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as the first
quarter of 2022;

 

c) For each death recorded as suicide by a coroner, the date of death;

 

d) For each death recorded as suicide by a coroner, the campus or college
which the student had been attending (if your institution has more than
one college/campus).

 

Our Response

 

For question a) please see the table below:

 

┌─────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┐
│Calendar Year │Number of Student Deaths │
├─────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
│2018 │ 4 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
│2019 │ 7 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
│2020 │ 0 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
│2021 │ 4 │
├─────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
│First quarter of 2022 │ 5 │
└─────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘

 

For questions b, c and d this information is held by the HM Coroner’s
Office, it is therefore information not held by us.

 

I hope you find this information useful but if you have any questions
about the data, please let me know. You would also be welcome to contact
our Comms Team on 01206 872400 and I have copied them into this email so
that they are aware of your interest. 

 

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Regards,

 

Alex Pinagli BA (Hons) MA (Hons)

Information Assurance Assistant

Freedom of Information Team

Office of the Vice-Chancellor

University of Essex

 

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Hello, many thanks for this. To clarify, can I check that the university holds no records of the number of student suicides in recent years?
Or is there another way I could phrase my question, perhaps by asking about other university records rather than coroner verdicts, for instance, to get any figures (partial or full) that you might have on the number of student suicides each year?

Many thanks in advance,
Claire Wilde

Freedom Of Information Requests, University of Essex

Dear Claire,

Thank you for your email. We will look into this and come back to you as soon as we can.

Regards,

Alex Pinagli BA (Hons) MA (Hons)
Information Assurance Assistant
Freedom of Information Team
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
University of Essex

E [University of Essex request email]
E [email address]
www.essex.ac.uk

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Dear Claire,

Further to my previous email, we are continuing to investigate this and we will come back to you as soon as we can.

Regards,

Alex Pinagli BA (Hons) MA (Hons)
Information Assurance Assistant
Freedom of Information Team
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
University of Essex

E [University of Essex request email]
E [email address]
www.essex.ac.uk

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Dear Claire,

Further to my previous email, we are continuing to investigate this and we will come back to you as soon as we can.

Regards,

Alex Pinagli BA (Hons) MA (Hons)
Information Assurance Assistant
Freedom of Information Team
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
University of Essex

E [University of Essex request email]
E [email address]
www.essex.ac.uk

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Dear Claire,

Further to my previous email, we are continuing to investigate this and we will come back to you as soon as we can.

Regards,

Alex Pinagli BA (Hons) MA (Hons)
Information Assurance Assistant
Freedom of Information Team
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
University of Essex

E [University of Essex request email]
E [email address]
www.essex.ac.uk

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Dear Claire,

Further to my previous email, we are continuing to investigate this and we will come back to you as soon as we can.

Regards,

Alex Pinagli BA (Hons) MA (Hons)
Information Assurance Assistant
Freedom of Information Team
Office of the Vice-Chancellor
University of Essex

E [University of Essex request email]
E [email address]
www.essex.ac.uk

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Dear Claire

Further to your follow-up query to our response to your FOI request regarding student deaths, I am writing to let you know that unfortunately we are unable to provide you with any information about the number of student suicides at the University of Essex in recent years. This is because we do not record the cause of student death on our records and therefore it is information not held by us.

I'm sorry that we're still unable to assist you and apologise for the delay in coming back to you on this.

Best wishes
Clare Chatfield BA (Hons), PC.foi
Information Assurance Officer
Freedom of Information Team
Office of the Vice Chancellor
University of Essex

T +44 (0)1206 872285
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