FOI_24-303 Suspected and confirmed student suicides
Date of response: 05 November 2024
We have now considered your request of 29 October 2024 for the following information:
Question 1. The number of suspected student suicides in 2023-24
Question 2. The number of suspected student suicides in university accommodation or on campus in 2023-24
Our response:
On this occasion it is not possible to provide all the requested information. In line with your rights under section 1(1)(a) of the Act to be informed whether information is held, we confirm that the University does not hold information on whether a student enrolled at the University was ‘suspected’ to have died by suicide. The University does not record any student deaths as ‘suspected suicide’ and would only record a death as 'suicide', once a Coroner’s verdict has confirmed that is the case, therefore we do not hold any information for the number of student deaths either on or off campus or within student accommodation which are ‘suspected’ suicides.
Question 3. The number of confirmed student suicides in 2023-24
Our response:
Zero.
Question 4. The number of confirmed student suicides in university accommodation or on campus in 2023-24
Our response:
Zero.