FOI2016/193

Please provide the following information under the Freedom of Information Act.

Number of Deaths in each of the last 5 academic years(to Sept 16) of students studying at SOAS at the time of death

Number of attempted suicides and/or serious self harm in each of the last 5 details

Cause of each death (if known)

Whether these deaths occurred on or off campus. Campus being defined as the faculty and any purpose built student housing whether owned by the university or not

Total number of students enrolled in each of the 5 years for which data is provided

Data source:

All data were taken from the data supply output from School's 2011/12 – 2015/16 Student HESA returns. Students were counted as unique instances each describing an engagement on a specific instance of study.

Parameters:

(i)HESA standard registration population

The HESA standard registration population is derived from the HESA Student record and ensures that similar activity is counted in a similar way irrespective of when it occurs.

The population splits the student experience into ‘years of programme of study’; the first year of which is deemed to start on the commencement date of the programme with second, and subsequent years, starting on, or near, the anniversary of that date.

Registrations are counted once for each ‘year of programme of study’. Students who leave within two weeks of their start date, or anniversary of their start date, and are on a course of more than two weeks duration, are not included in the standard registration population. Dormant students, incoming visiting and exchange students from overseas and from 2007/08 writing-up students and students on sabbatical are also excluded from this population.

Note that the starting point of the standard registration population is the session population, and so will exclude:

1. dormant student instances (those who have ceased studying but have not formally de-registered, including any who have been awarded)

2. incoming visiting and exchange student instances

3. postdoctoral student instances, and students primarily studying outside the UK

4. instances where the whole of the programme of study is outside of the UK

5. Teaching Agency (TA) Subject Knowledge Enhancement (SKE) student instances, and

6. students on sabbatical.

Rounding strategy

The data have been rounded using the same rounding methodology that is used by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). Their strategy is summarised below (sections on FTE and percentages not reproduced as not relevant):

Due to the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Human Rights Act 1998, HESA implements a strategy in published and released tabulations designed to prevent the disclosure of personal information about any individual. This strategy involves rounding all numbers to the nearest multiple of 5 and suppressing percentages and averages based on small populations.

HESA Services Standard Rounding Methodology:

  • 0, 1, 2 are rounded to 0
  • All other numbers are rounded to the nearest multiple of 5

Note that Totals are rounded separately, so the total will not always equal the sum of the row/column it represents.

Data

Academic Year / Enrolments
2011/12 / 5400
2012/13 / 5420
2013/14 / 5415
2014/15 / 5910
2015/16 / 6070

Senior Planning Officer – Statutory Reporting & Performance

SOAS, University of London

30thNovember 2016

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