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 Huddersfield

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Good Afternoon,

 

Our response to your request for information dated 19 April 2022 is
provided below.

 

 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).

 

            2018 – 4

            2019 – 2

            2020 – 7

            2021 – 5

            2022 – 2

 

           

 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).

 

Please note that the University holds record of suspected suicide. The
University does not always receive the confirmation of the cause of death
from the coroner and therefore exact cause of death is not recorded. The
information requested for the above questions b to d is therefore not
held.

 

I hope this satisfies your request. However, if you are dissatisfied with
the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal
review. Internal review requests should be submitted within 40 working
days from the date of our response to your original request and should be
addressed to the University Secretary, University of Huddersfield,
Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH or by email to [1][University of Huddersfield request email].

 

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Yours sincerely

 

Esha Goswami

Information Governance Officer

University of Huddersfield

 

 

 

 

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Many thanks for this, can I please get the number of suspected suicides for each year?
Kind regards,
Claire Wilde

Freedom of Information requests, University of Huddersfield

Thank you for your email.

 

If your enquiry is a request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 or the Environmental Regulations 2004, you will
receive the information requested within the statutory timescale of 20
working days, as defined by the Act, subject to the information not being
exempt. Please note that if the information you request contains reference
to a third party then they may be consulted prior to a decision being
taken on whether or not to release the information to you.

 

If the request relates to your own personal data under the Data Protection
Act 2018, please email [1][email address]

 

For any other enquiry, please visit the University’s contact pages to help
you redirect your email: [2]https://www.hud.ac.uk/contact/

 

Yours sincerely,

 

The Information Governance Officer

University of Huddersfield inspiring global professionals.

This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you
receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it
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will accept no liability.

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Good Afternoon,

 

Our response to your request for information dated 19 May 2022 is provided
below.

 

• Number of suspected suicides:

2019 - 1

2020 - 3

2021 - 3

2022 - 0 (Data correct until 28 April 2022)

 

Please note that the above figures are of suspected suicides. The
University does not always receive the confirmation of the cause of death
from the coroner and therefore exact cause of death is not recorded.
Please note that the data for 2018 is not held centrally.

 

I hope it satisfies your request. If you are dissatisfied with the
handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal
review. Internal review requests should be submitted within 40 working
days from the date of our response to your original request and should be
addressed to the University Secretary, University of Huddersfield,
Queensgate, Huddersfield HD1 3DH or by email to [1][University of Huddersfield request email].

 

Please note that all copyright in this response belongs to the University
of Huddersfield; you are not permitted to publish, reproduce, copy or
otherwise use this response, except as permitted by the Copyright, Designs
and Patents Act 1988.

 

Further information about the Freedom of Information Act can be obtained
from the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane,
Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, [2]http://www.ico.org.uk/.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Esha Goswami

Information Governance Officer

University of Huddersfield

 

 

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