An organisation that provides courses leading to this university's awards
through a validation process has recently gone into liquidation. The
liquidators have offered us paper files and 2 PCs apparently containing the
student records so that we may assist the student to complete their studies
and gain their awards.
Normally we exchange student data with such an organisation on the basis of
the contract between them and ourselves for normal administrative purposes
(both organisations notified with the IOC etc). As they are in liquidation,
has our contract lapsed ? If so, I believe we cannot process the files and
data on the PCs without obtaining consent from each student, with whom we do
not have an explicit contract.
Obviously we want to act in the best interests of the students but
ironically the contact information for many of them will be held in the
files we would be asking them to allow us to access !
Any comments ?
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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