> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eugene Critchlow
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 8:24 AM
> To: Dan Porter-Brown
> Cc: Liz Jenkinson
> Subject: FW: Experian
>
>
> fi: I agree with Hoad/walker
>
> Eugene Critchlow
> Academic Registrar
> De Montfort University
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liz Jenkinson
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 8:21 AM
> To: Eugene Critchlow
> Subject: FW: Experian
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Hoad [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 3:56 AM
> To: Robin Walker; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Experian
>
>
>
> > On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, David Ealey wrote:
> >
> >> Their degree certificate had the incorrect title on caused by an error
> >> on their record. They have obviously heard about the HESA deal with
> >> Experian and have asked us how we are going to get the record changed.
>
> and Robin Walker replied:
>
> > You have a duty under the Data Protection Act 1984 (let alone the 1998
> > one) to correct your own records.
> >
> > The ex-student(s) can use their rights under the Data Protection Act to
> > see their record at Experian and require them to correct it.
>
> But as far as I am aware the student would have to pay Experian for the
> priviledge of correcting wrong information which they had no control over
> in
> the first place. Unless, of course, HESA / Experian are going to operate a
> free correction service which seems unlikely.
>
> Shouldn't the institution be responsible for bearing any costs associated
> with the correction of information? Isn't there a principle of duty of
> care
> towards the student on the part of the institution?
>
> Jeremy Hoad
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