FOI in college

vector

A hypothetical college lecturer is known for being a hard marker of exam scripts.
While this may be somewhat amusing in first year, as students move into the final year, and things get competitive, it becomes annoying.

The students want to find out three pieces of information for this years cohort in the one module
1-percentage of students who passed the module
2 percentage of students who failed the module
3-average mark of all students who sat the module

The lecturer isin't interested in talking, so an FOI request is prepared, however informal discussions with the FOI officer reveal that the data requested doesn't actually exist. While the individual results of students exist, no one has yet calculated the averages requested. So the FOI request would be denied with a reason information not held here. The students cannot use any mechanism to force the creation of the averages.

What are the general comments of readers on this hypothetical issue

stepbar

I would suggest talking to your Student Union / Education Officer, that information should be made available, in fact the Exams office must have a break down of the results of each subject somewhere i.e the results had to have been compiled form somewhere.