Yes, that's it in a nutshell. The students' answers are not data about them. The marks and comments are. qed So if they ask, they get the comments but not the exam answers that they relate to. Strange but true. John On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:45:34 +0100 [log in to unmask] wrote: > From: [log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:45:34 +0100 > Subject: Exam scripts > To: [log in to unmask] > > It is the info recorded by candidates which is exempt from subject access > and at the conference we were given to understand that this did not extend > to scriptmarkers comments which seems rather ridiculous. Perhaps it could be > argued that if the exempted data is taken out, what is left is not personal > data. Rather tenuous but otherwise unworkable!? > Gail Waters > D.P. Coordinator. > Open University ************************************************************** * From Dr John M Gledhill * personal email: [log in to unmask] * Academic Registrar, Coventry University, * Priory St. Coventry CV1 5FB, UK * phone 024 76 838336, fax 024 76 838311 * (local calls 838336 until 22.4.2000, then 7688 8336) * for general University email use: [log in to unmask] ************************************************************** %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%