This is interesting. We are going down the route of allowing students to opt
out of publication of award details.
Gail Waters
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owen Parry [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 02 June 2000 08:08
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Pubication of Degree Results
>
> I have recently queried the Data Protection Commissioner's office about
> the
> legality or otherwise of the way in which this university publishes degree
> results.
>
> As a federal university, we publish results for most HE institutions in
> Wales by sending those results to our Institutions for publication on
> noticeboards etc. (whether they do so or not is up to them) , the
> institutions themseleves produce degree congregation booklets of names by
> depatment and degree, and we release initial degree results for our major
> institutions to the Western Mail newspaper, (showing subject,
> classification, surname and initials). We have published such results in
> one
> form or another for 107 years and don't want to stop !
>
> I have received the following reply form the Senior Compliance Officer,
> which may be of some interest to this list:
>
> The Commissioner has considered the data protection issues regarding the
> publication of degree results. The conclusion which she has reached is
> that providing that this is done in a way which does not allow for
> individuals students to be contacted (for instances through the inclusion
> of
> e-mail or postal addresses or telephone numbers) then she does not
> consider
> that this long established practice breaches the Data Protection Act.
> Certainly there would be no question of the consent of students being
> required However, if individual students were to indicate to the
> University that they did not wish his or her name to be included on the
> published list, then his or her rights should be respected.
>
>
> Owen Parry
> Pennaeth Cyfrifiadura Gweinyddol/
> Head of Administrative Computing
> Prifysgol Cymru/
> University of Wales
> Tel: (029) 2038 2656 Ffacs/Fax: (029) 2039 6040
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