FOI_24-002 Failure rate medicine
Date of our response: 06 February 2024
Question 1. Please provide your failure rate for the MBBS A100 course for the last 5 years.
Our response:
2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
8.78% | 1.37% | 4.41% | 9.34% | 7.63% |
Question 2. Please further provide the breakdown of students failing over the last 5 years by sex, ethnicity, disability, fee status and widening access. Clarification received 12 January 2024: ‘Thank you for your email clarifying this, each university seems to have a slightly different definition of who they include in their widening participation schemes, most universities include Polar 4 quintiles in their definition but also the following groups. Students from lower socio-economic backgrounds; Students from non-academically selective state schools; Disabled students / students with an Education, Health, and Care (EHC) plan; Looked after children; Students who are estranged from their families; Some ethnic minority students (in certain geographical areas);Students with caring responsibilities’
Our response:
Please see accompanying document, our ref: FOI_24-002 Appendix A.
The University holds information pertaining to your request. However, due to the small numbers involved we consider these details are exempt from disclosure and have applied the following exemption to 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
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Due to the small numbers presented in our response, it is possible to identify a living individual(s) from this information and therefore we consider it to be personal data. Disclosure of this personal data would contravene the first data protection principle of the General Data Protection Regulations, that Principle being: a) lawfulness, fairness and transparency. Disclosure would constitute unfair processing of the data as any individual would reasonably expect their data to remain confidential and not released to the general public. The University is only permitted to disclose personal data where it would be fair to do so, lawful and transparent. Therefore, the requirements of this exemption are met. Where information has been removed from our response, we have replaced the text with <5 or exempt s.40(2).