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An early experiment here in anonymised class lists showing only the fails showed how easy it was to find out who was missing, if there are 30 students in the class and 28 names on the list it is quite quickly obvious who has failed. Larger classes may take a bit longer but not much... I'm actually not too worried about missing out the failures, it is missing out people on the basis of debt and highlighting that there name may not have appeared because they are owing money that more concerns me. The question is just how anonymized is anonymous enough. One list for the University in the order of the candidate number on one board? Lists by course / dept / some combination? Garry >GARRY D MAIN wrote: >> [log in to unmask] wrote: >> > Compensation for damage/distress springs to mind >> >can you be damaged/distressed by something NOT being published? >> >john >> If the rest of your classmates had access to their results, and it was known >> that if your name was not on the list you had >> failed or were in debt to the institution, I would say yes that this would >> cause distress. >indeed, but that is predicated on the assumption that your class mates >can identify who's missing. It's the statement that all students knew >each others ID numbers that messes it up. >It's why I want to go for anonymous pass lists, or a web-based solution >as you describe. And perhaps the DP commissioner could one day give us a >ruling about whether named pass lists are permissible or not (rather >than their waiting for a test case). >John %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%