FOI_25-009 BSc Speech and Language Therapy students enrolled in 2024-25
Date of response: 22 January 2025
We have now considered your request of 11 January 2025 for the following information:
Please accept this as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act, as follows below in respect of your undergraduate programme, BSc Speech and Language Therapy
Question 1. Total Number of Applications received via UCAS for entry onto BSc Speech and Language Therapy for this academic year 2024/2025;
Our response:
There were 190 applications received via UCAS for entry onto the BSc Speech and Language Therapy course in 2024-25.
Question 2. Number of places that were available for BSc Speech and Language Therapy for this academic year 2024/2024;
Our response:
There were 42 spaces available.
Question 3. Please provide the age of students at time of enrollment onto BSc Speech and Language Therapy for this academic year 2024/2025;
a. Number of students aged 18-25 at time of enrolling =
b. Number of students aged 26-35 at time of enrolling =
c. Number of students aged 36-45 at time of enrolling =
d. Number of students aged 46-55 at time of enrolling =
e. Number of students aged 55 and above at time of enrolling =
Our response:
| 18-25 | 26-35 | 36-45 | 46-55 | 55 and above |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 |
On this occasion, it is not possible to provide all the requested information. The Act contains several exemptions that allow public authorities to withhold certain information from release. We have applied the following exemption to part of your request.
| Exemption | Reason |
|---|---|
| s.40(2), Personal information | Disclosure of some of the requested information would be contrary to the requirements of the UK General Data Protection Regulation |
We can confirm that the University does hold this data. However, due to the small numbers involved, we consider these details are exempt from disclosure under Section 40(2) of the FOI Act.
Due to the small numbers involved, it would be possible to identify a living individual(s) from this information and, therefore, we would consider it to be personal data. Disclosure of this personal data would contravene the first data protection principle of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), that being Principle (a) – lawfulness, fairness, and transparency. We consider that disclosure would constitute unfair processing of the data as any individual would reasonably expect for their data to remain confidential and not released to the public. The University is only permitted to disclose personal data if to do so would be fair, lawful, and transparent. Therefore, the requirements of this exemption are met, and we are unable to disclose this information.
To ensure that we do not inadvertently release personal data in this response or in combination with other publicly available data, we have replaced all values between 0 and 4 in relation to the number of individuals with the value ‘<5’.