Undergraduate law admissions: data on candidates applying through non-traditional routes

The request was refused by University of Brighton.

Dear University of Brighton,

I would like to request the following data relating to all law courses (i.e. both the single honours LLB or BA and any joint honours law courses) offered by your university.

I am requesting the data for candidates who received offers for one of the aforementioned law courses in the 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 admissions cycles (I refer to these candidates as ‘the offerholders’).

If the data for 2018/2019 is not available for whatever reason, please provide it for 2016/2017 (I am looking for at least two admission cycles’ worth of data, in order to ensure that it is reliable).

I request the following data for each admissions cycle:

1. The total number of offerholders for the aforementioned law courses.

2. The number of offerholders who were either planning to complete or had completed BTECs as their most recent qualification.

3. The number of offerholders who were either planning to complete or had completed a Higher National Diploma (‘HND’) or Higher National Certificate (‘HNC’) as their most recent qualification.

4. The number of offerholders who were either planning to complete or had completed an Access to Higher Education diploma as their most recent qualification.

5. The number of offerholders who received offers while planning to resit their A-levels. (These individuals will show up on your system as having completed one set of A-levels already, with predictions for at least one other A-level).

I look forward to hearing from you. Let me know if I can be of assistance in any way.

Yours faithfully,

Samira El Amein

FOI, University of Brighton

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Dear Samira
 
Thank you for your Freedom of Information Act Request.
 
1. The total number of offerholders for the aforementioned law courses.
 
 
2. The number of offerholders who were either planning to complete or had
completed BTECs as their most recent qualification.
 
3. The number of offerholders who were either planning to complete or had
completed a Higher National Diploma (‘HND’) or Higher National Certificate
(‘HNC’) as their most recent qualification.
 
4. The number of offerholders who were either planning to complete or had
completed an Access to Higher Education diploma as their most recent
qualification.
 
5. The number of offerholders who received offers while planning to resit
their A-levels. (These individuals will show up on your system as having
completed one set of A-levels already, with predictions for at least one
other A-level).
 
Pursuant to S.12 of the Freedom of Information Act, we consider this
exempt from disclosure on the grounds that it will exceed the appropriate
limit. The data is not in an easily accessible format, so we need to
extract, manually review and analyse each record – and this would take in
excess of 18 hours of work to extract.
 
If it helps, the last institutional data we have is for the 2017 cycle and
tells us that 8% of applicants had a Diploma at L3 (which would include
BTECs) and 3.4% had an Access qualification. 
 
Should you wish to seek a review of this response to your request, please
write to Mr S Dudderidge, Registrar and Secretary, 8^th Floor, Cockcroft
Building, Lewes Road, Brighton BN2 4GJ. If this fails to resolve the
matter then you have the right to apply to the Information Commissioner
for a decision.
 
Yours sincerely
 
Rachel
 
Rachel Page
Head of Data Compliance and Record Management
 
[1][email address]
01273 64 2010
 
Vice Chancellors Office
University of Brighton
8^th Floor, Cockcroft Building
Lewes Road
Brighton
BN2 4GJ
 
 

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