Student demographics and demographic details pertaining to academic misconduct.

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Dear St Catharine's College, Cambridge,

I would like to request the following information please. Where possible could this be provided in a spreadsheet:

Questions about student demographics:

1.1 In the final semester of the academic year 2020/2021 how many students in total (across all levels and modes of study) studied at your institution?

Of this total please provide a breakdown by:

1.2 Nationality

1.3 Ethnicity

1.4 The number that were required to provide evidence of English Language competence to commence study due to International status.

1.5 Disability, as a total figure and where possible a breakdown of type, for example in the following format:
A No disability
B social/communication impairment such as Asperger's syndrome/other autistic spectrum disorder
C Blind or have a serious visual impairment uncorrected by glasses
D Deaf or have a serious hearing impairment
E Long standing illness or health condition such as cancer, HIV, diabetes, chronic heart disease, or epilepsy
F Mental health condition, such as depression, schizophrenia or anxiety disorder
G Specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia, dyspraxia or AD(H)D
H Physical impairment or mobility issues, such as difficulty using your arms or using a wheelchair or crutches
I Disability, impairment or medical condition that is not listed above
J Two or more impairments and/or disabling medical conditions

Academic misconduct questions:

Total number of referrals:

2.1 In the final semester of the academic year 2020/2021 how many students were referred for academic misconduct (institution wide)? If a student was referred more than once, please only count them once.

Of that number please provide a breakdown (in numbers) by:

2.2 Nationality

2.3 Ethnicity.

2.4 The number that were required to provide evidence of English Language competence to commence study due to International status.

2.5 Disability, as a total figure and where possible a breakdown of type, for example in the following format:
A No disability
B social/communication impairment such as Asperger's syndrome/other autistic spectrum disorder
C Blind or have a serious visual impairment uncorrected by glasses
D Deaf or have a serious hearing impairment
E Long standing illness or health condition such as cancer, HIV, diabetes, chronic heart disease, or epilepsy
F Mental health condition, such as depression, schizophrenia or anxiety disorder
G Specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia, dyspraxia or AD(H)D
H Physical impairment or mobility issues, such as difficulty using your arms or using a wheelchair or crutches
I Disability, impairment or medical condition that is not listed above
J Two or more impairments and/or disabling medical conditions

Total cases proved / substantiated

3.1. In the final semester of the academic year 2020/2021 how many student cases of academic misconduct (institution wide) were found proven/ substantiated? If a student was referred more than once, please only count them once.

Of that number please provide a breakdown (in numbers) by:

3.2. Nationality

3.3 Ethnicity.

3.4 The number that were required to provide evidence of English Language competence to commence study due to International status.

3.5 Disability, as a total figure and where possible a breakdown of type, for example in the following format:
A No disability
B Social/communication impairment such as Asperger's syndrome/other autistic spectrum disorder
C Blind or have a serious visual impairment uncorrected by glasses
D Deaf or have a serious hearing impairment
E Long standing illness or health condition such as cancer, HIV, diabetes, chronic heart disease, or epilepsy
F Mental health condition, such as depression, schizophrenia or anxiety disorder
G Specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia, dyspraxia or AD(H)D
H Physical impairment or mobility issues, such as difficulty using your arms or using a wheelchair or crutches
I Disability, impairment or medical condition that is not listed above
J Two or more impairments and/or disabling medical conditions

4. Does your institution use Turnitin to help staff identify cases of academic misconduct?

5. Does your institution give students access to Turnitin to help students understand academic misconduct prior to submission of work?

Yours faithfully,

Rachel Harrad

FOI - St Catharine's College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge

FOI – acknowledgement of request

Our Reference: FOI_0141

Dear Rachel,

Thank you for your Freedom of Information Request on 19/08/2022. We will respond to your request on or before 19/09/2022 – 20 working days.

Yours sincerely,

Nicola Robert
Bursar

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FOI - St Catharine's College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge

FOI – response

Our Reference: FOI_0141

Dear Rachel

 

The response to your Freedom of Information Request is as follows:

 

1.1.

 

539 undergraduate students.

 

1.2.

 

┌───────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────┐
│Nationality │Number of Undergraduate Students │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Australia │10 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Bangladesh │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Belgium │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Bosnia and Herzegovina │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Canada │8 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│China │14 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Croatia │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Cyprus │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Czech Republic │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Estonia │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│France │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Germany │8 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Hong Kong │7 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Hungary │7 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│India │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Ireland │13 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Israel │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Italy │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Korea, Republic of │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Latvia │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Lithuania │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Malaysia │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Malta │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Netherlands │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│New Zealand │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Nigeria │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Poland │12 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Portugal │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Romania │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Singapore │11 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Slovakia │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Slovenia │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│South Africa │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Spain │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Sri Lanka │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Sweden │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Switzerland │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Thailand │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Trinidad and Tobago │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Ukraine │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│United Kingdom │374 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│United States │12 │
├───────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────┤
│Uruguay │0-5 │
└───────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────┘

 

1.3.

 

┌───────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
│Ethnicity │Number of Undergraduate Students│
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Any other Asian background │17 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Any other ethnic background │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Any other Mixed or Multiple ethnic │13 │
│background │ │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Any other White background │17 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Arab │0-5 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Asian - Bangladeshi or Bangladeshi │6 │
│British │ │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Asian - Chinese or Chinese British │48 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Asian - Indian or Indian British │36 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Asian - Pakistani or Pakistani British │7 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Black - African or African British │10 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Information Refused │22 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Mixed-White & Asian/Asian British │24 │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Mixed-White & Black African/Black │0-5 │
│African British │ │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│Mixed-White & Black Caribbean/Black │0-5 │
│Caribbean British │ │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│White - English, Scottish, Welsh, N │329 │
│Irish, British │ │
├───────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
│White - Irish │0-5 │
└───────────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘

1.4.

 

0-5 undergraduate students.

We don’t hold such information for postgraduates.

 

1.5.

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────┐
│Disability │Number of │
│ │Undergraduate│
│ │Students │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│A - No disability │441 │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│B - Social/communication impairment such as Asperger's│0-5 │
│syndrome/other autistic spectrum disorder │ │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│C - Blind or have a serious visual impairment uncorrected│0-5 │
│by glasses │ │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│D - Deaf or have a serious hearing impairment │0-5 │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│E - Long standing illness or health condition such as│0-5 │
│cancer, HIV, diabetes, chronic heart disease, or epilepsy │ │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│F - Mental health condition, such as depression,│26 │
│schizophrenia or anxiety disorder │ │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│G - Specific learning difficulty such as dyslexia,│28 │
│dyspraxia or AD(H)D │ │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│H - Physical impairment or mobility issues, such as│0-5 │
│difficulty using your arms or using a wheelchair or│ │
│crutches │ │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│I - Disability, impairment or medical condition that is│15 │
│not listed above │ │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────┤
│J Two or more impairments and/or disabling medical│10 │
│conditions │ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────┘

 

2.0 and 3.0.

 

College didn’t record any academic misconduct cases.

 

4.0 and 5.0.

 

Please refer to the University of Cambridge website for such information:

[1]https://www.plagiarism.admin.cam.ac.uk/i...

Please be advised that for postgraduate students, there is no enrolment
term to fix them to a particular year and therefore we can’t provide
information for questions 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.5.

Due to the small numbers involved we have substituted 0-5 for real numbers
to prevent identification of specific individuals (under Section 40(2) of
the Freedom of Information Act). You have the right to appeal against this
decision by requesting an internal review by ourselves. You may also
complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, who will only entertain
a complaint after any internal review process is complete.

 

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your
request and wish to make a complaint or request an internal review of this
decision, you should contact us quoting the reference number given above.
If you choose to do so please state your reasons for dissatisfaction and
any other matters to which the College should have regard.

 

If you are not content with the outcome of your review, you may apply
directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally the
Information Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted
the complaints procedure provided by the College. The Information
Commissioner may be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
([2]https://ico.org.uk/).

 

Yours sincerely

Nicola Robert

Bursar

 

 

 

 

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