Dear Luke
We refer to your Freedom of Information request received on 19/02/2024 about
tuition fee fraud. Details of any exemptions applied are included below (where
applicable).
Those parts of the University’s response (together with the details of how to ask the
University to review the management of your request, or thereafter to seek a review
by the Scottish Information Commissioner, should you wish to do so – please see
below) constitutes the notice in writing that the information specified is not held by
the University which is required under section 17 of the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002 (“FOISA”) and under Regulation 10(4)(a) of the Environmental
Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (“EIRs”).
Your Request and Our Response (Request in Bold)
1) For each year since 2018, how many students have been investigative for
tuition fee fraud?
The University is required to consider applying legislative tests if addressing a
request related to personal data. This includes where information, either on its own
or in combination with other information, might lead to the identification of individuals
and/or the disclosure of personal data about them (e.g., in cases where numbers are
low), or their ‘special categories’ of personal data.
The University considers that the release of parts of the information requested in this
request could result in the identification of a data subject(s) and would therefore be
in breach of the Data Protection Principles (Article 5, General Data Protection
Regulation). Where this is the case, the information is exempt from release under
section 38(1)(b) Personal Data (3rd party) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland)
Act 2002 and, where applicable, information has been anonymised and presented as
<5.
By Calendar Year:
2018 0
2019 0
2020 0
2021 0
2022 <5
2023 <5
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2) What were the outcomes in each case?
In each instance the student applications were withdrawn.
3) Of the total number of students investigated since 2018, how many were of
Chinese nationality?
0
This concludes the University’s response.
Your right to seek a review of how your information request was managed.
If you are not satisfied with our response or our reasoning set out above, you have
40 working days in which to require a review of our decision. Any such request
should be put in writing and should be sent to the University Secretary, Abertay
University, at the address provided below.
Vice Principal (Strategy and Governance) and University Secretary
Abertay University
Bell Street
Dundee
DD1 1HG
Tel (01382) 308000
E-mail
: xxx@xxxxxxx.xx.xx
The request should:
(a) detail your request for a review of our decision to be undertaken
(b) describe the nature of your original request
(c) explain the reasons why you are dissatisfied with our response
If you remain dissatisfied with how your request for information has been dealt with,
you also have the right, in terms of section 47 of FOISA and section 17 of the EIRs,
and within 6 months, to apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a
decision as to whether we have handled your request properly.
Information relating to your right to seek review is available from the Scottish
Information Commissioner's website:
http://www.itspublicknowledge.info
Abertay University is a registered Scottish charity, no. SC016040
or by contacting the Scottish Information Commissioner's Office at the following
address:
Scottish Information Commissioner,
Kinburn Castle,
Doubledykes Road, St Andrews,
Fife KY16 9DS
Telephone: 01334 464610
E-mail
: xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Website
: http://www.itspublicknowledge.info
Or via the SIC’s online appeals service:
https://www.itspublicknowledge.info/appeal
If you are unhappy with the Commissioner’s decision, you also have the right to
appeal further to the Court of Session, on a point of law only, under section 56 of
FOISA. Please refer to the Commissioner’s website (details above) for further
information about your right of appeal to the Court of Session.
Yours sincerely,
FOI Processing
Abertay University
Abertay University is a registered Scottish charity, no. SC016040