There has been a lot of contradictory advice flying about regarding the
1998 Data Protection Act, but this might be food for thought:
At a conference held by the University of Southampton in London on 4
December, the Senior Compliance Manager from the Data Protection
Registrar's Office said (quite firmly!) that students had a fundamental
right to be provided with a copy of information held about them on
computer.
He said that this would naturally include degree classifications if held
on computer, *regardless* of whether the student owed the University
money. However, he did say that exercising the sanction of withholding the
actual parchment certificate or official transcript is perfectly OK.
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Anne Johnson
Assistant Registrar (Student Systems)
University of Sussex; Tel: 01273 (67)8761
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