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Trevor,
>From the horse's mouth as it were:
"• Some institutions may follow a policy of withholding examination
results from students who haven't paid examination or course fees. There is
no exemption in the Data Protection Act that a university or college could
use to refuse a request for this reason. We would stress that providing an
individual with results is not the same as awarding a degree or other
qualification."
<http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/library/data_protection/practical_application/data_protection_good_practice_note_access_to_exam_results.pdf>
Best wishes
Andrew
--On December-16-10 6:27 PM +0000 Trevor Pearce <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>
> I have a question for the HE people among you although if anyone else has
> answers feel free to chip in. We have a policy that we do not release
> examination results to students who owe us money. I suspect that, if
> someone makes a DP SAR and pays £10, then we have to give them these
> results, assuming that we are holding them somewhere in a relevant filing
> system – although we can give them in a format that will mean that they
> are not useful (ie provide in hand-written form that could not be used,
> for example, to support a job application).
>
>
>
> However, other views are that as we have entered a contractual
> partnership with the student, and they have not complied with their side,
> there are dp exemptions that apply.
>
>
>
> Does anyone have any advice on which of us is right?
>
>
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> From: Trevor Pearce
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