Andrew
You raise a particular example of a general question that I've had for some
time. I'm tending to the view that in HE the contract between institution
and student is far broader in terms of organisational activities to be
provided than we often assume. These days, the provision of student support
would be seen by many as being as integral as teaching sessions. Local
government clearly is constrained by the statutory limits on carrying out
individual functions, but I don’t see why, within a University, the fact
that certain functions which are part of the contract are performed by
different organisational units (that it has arbitrarily created) prevents
sharing of personal data between them. For security purposes, and as good
practice, there is clearly a need to control who has access to what, but
that seems a different matter to internal non-disclosure.
The simple (?) answer to the point about purposes for which the data is
collected is that it is collected to enable you to fulfill your side of the
contract.
I wait to be shot at!
Steven
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