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Dear Gary,

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request of 11 March 2024.

We have completed the compilation of information in response to your
request which read:

Can you give me a breakdown of 2024 offer holders and their
ethnicity/country of application If 2024 data not yet available can you
give 2023 then thanks

We can confirm that we do hold some information of the description
specified in your request and this information is provided below.  Please
note that UCL does not record ethnicity data.

OUR RESPONSE

┌────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┐
│ Country of domicile │ Number of students    │
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Azerbaijan │ ˜5│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Bulgaria │ ˜5│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│China │ 112│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Czech Republic │ ˜5│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│France │ ˜5│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Georgia │ ˜5│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Hong Kong │ ˜5│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Japan │ ˜5│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Kazakhstan │ ˜5│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Korea, Republic of │ ˜5│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Kuwait │ ˜5│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Moldova │ ˜5│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Poland │ ˜5│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Romania │ ˜5│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Russian Federation │ ˜5│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Switzerland │ ˜5│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Thailand │ ˜5│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Turkey │ ˜5│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Ukraine │ ˜5│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│United Kingdom │ 6│
├────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│Uzbekistan │ ˜5│
└────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────┘

As you will see within the table above, where the number of students is 5
or fewer (˜5), the information has been withheld because, with such low
numbers, even providing this information without names it is possible that
the underlying individuals could be identified, which means that this is
personal data of third parties or, if linked with other personal
identifiers in the public domain, would be likely to become personal data.
This information has been withheld under Section 40(2) of the FOIA by
virtue of Section 40(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. In this case, we
believe that the requested information could relate to and identify
individuals and therefore would be personal data. The disclosure of these
personal data would not be within the reasonable expectations of the
individuals concerned and it would be unfair to do so; this therefore
breaches the first Data Protection principle.

As the Section 40(2) exemption is an absolute one, there is no need to
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Kind regards,

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University College London

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Dear Gary,

Thank you for your response.

As this is a request for new data this will be logged as a new FOI and the statutory timeframe has been reset.

Kind regards

Josh

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Dear Gary

Thank you for your request for information.

In order to proceed with your request below, we need clarification and
this is mentioned below.

Please provide the requested clarification within 20 working days of this
email.

********FOI********

Thank you very much, can you also provide me full a level
(predicted/achieved) and GCSE grades of these applicants along with the
offers given out and if qualify for UCL access scheme.

********FOI********

********CLARIFICATION********

Please can you confirm whether you would accept aggregated data. For
example, the number of offer holders that achieved AAA, not split by
domicile and the total number of offers given out that qualify for the UCL
access scheme.

********CLARIFICATION********

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Josh

Josh Keyte

Data Protection and Freedom of Information Adviser

University College London

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Data Protection: [1][email address] FOI: [2][UCL request email]

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Dear Gary,

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request of 25 March 2024. 
Apologies for the delay in responding to your request.

We have completed the compilation of information in response to your
request which read:

Thank you very much, can you also provide me full a level
(predicted/achieved) and GCSE grades of these applicants along with the
offers given out and if qualify for UCL access scheme.

In a subsequent email you clarified you were happy to accept aggregated
data for the 2024 offer holders.

We can confirm that we do hold information of the description specified in
your request and this information is provided below.

OUR RESPONSE

BA Economics and business with eastern European studies: 2024 entry

Aggregated predicted/achieved GCSE grades

Results Count

4          14

5          65

6          158

7          272

8          327

9          513

A*        370

A          236

B          128

C         54

D         13

E          8

Offers given out:  213

Do they qualify for the UCL access scheme:   Yes, for more details on the
UCL access scheme please follow this link:
[1]https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-studen...

You are free to use any information supplied for your own use, including
for non-commercial research purposes. The information may also be used for
the purposes of news reporting. However, any other type of re-use, for
example by publishing or issuing copies to the public, will require the
permission of the copyright owner.

If you are unhappy with our response to your request and wish to make a
complaint or request a review of our decision, please email
[2][email address]. Emails should include the words ‘Internal
Review’ in the subject and be marked For the Attention of the
Vice-President (Operations), alternatively you should write to:

Vice-President (Operations)

University College London

Gower Street

London

WC1E 6BT

Please note, complaints and requests for internal review received more
than two months after the initial decision will not be handled.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you may
apply directly to the Information Commissioner at the address given below.
You should do this within two months of our final decision.

If you have any queries or concerns, please contact me using the details
provided in this letter and including the request reference number.

Further information on the Freedom of Information Act is available from
the Information Commissioner’s Office:

Wycliffe House

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SK9 5AF

01625 545700

[3]www.ico.org.uk

[4][email address]

Kind regards,

Josh Keyte

Data Protection and Freedom of Information Adviser

University College London

Legal Services

Data Protection: [5][email address] FOI: [6][UCL request email]

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