Law student complaints: University of Bristol

2009.06.05

Universities were asked to provide the following information:

1. For each of the years, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 (to date of this request):

(a) The number of students at the university on (i) LLB / BA Law and (ii) (if offered) GDL/CPE programmes who, to the knowledge of the university, complained to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIA).

(b) The number of students on (i) LLB / BA Law and (ii) (if offered) GDL/CPE programmes whose complaints were regarded by the OIA as wholly or partly justified.

(c ) In the case of those complaints which were regarded by the OIA as wholly or partly justified please provide copies of the formal decision and recommendation(s) of the OIA.

The information provided is set out in the table below

Law student complaints - University of Bristol

    Complaints to OIA   Complaints regarded by OIA as wholly/partly justified   Comments
             
2005   Nil   Nil    
2006   One   Nil    
2007   One   One   The complaint concerned a student's appeal against a penalty imposed for an exam offence. The decision of the OIA was received in 2008.
2008   Nil   Nil    
2009   Nil   Nil    
             
             

2. The number of students on (i) LLB / BA Law and (ii) (if offered) GDL/CPE programmes between September 2004 and the date of this request who, having made a complaint to the university, (whether or not to the OIA), were awarded compensation by the university in respect of the complaint. And, in each case, the nature of the complaint and the amount of compensation awarded. Please provide copies of the written documents held by the university in which an offer of compensation was made to the student.

Student compensation payments

Number of Complants   Nature of Complaint   Amount of compensation   Comments
             
One   The complaint concerned an appeal against a penalty imposed for an exam offence (see above).   £100 compensation awarded by the university as recommended by the OIA (see above)   As noted in table above for 2007.
             

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Marks by subject: University of Bristol

2008.12.23

The following request for information was made to the University:

“For each of the foundation of legal knowledge / core law subjects taught on undergraduate programmes provided by the University:

(a) the average mark attained by students sitting the first examination in each subject in the academic year 2007/8.

Please provide the information based on the actual marks attained in the respective examinations and not on ‘compensated’ or ‘capped’ marks.

Please exclude data related to resit examinations taken at a laterexam. Where, for example, the first   examination was taken in May 2008 and there was a resit examination in August 2008 the average mark
should be based on the marks attained by all students taking the exam in May, whether or not they were sitting the examination for the first time or resitting. The marks attained by students in the August resit
should not be taken into account.

(b) the percentage of students attaining an examination mark of 40 or above in the first examination for each of the subjects in the academic year 2007/8

Again, as above, please base calculations on the actual marks attained and limited to the first examination.”

The information provided by the University is published below:

:

University of Bristol 2007/8

    Average exam mark %   Percentage of students with exam mark of 40% or above
Law of Contract   49.4%   80.5%
Law of Tort   51.4%   84.0%
Law and state   54.9%   93.0%
Constitutional Rights   51.4%   84.7%
Criminal Law   52.1%   88.7%
Law of Property I   56.5%   93.7%
Advanced Contract and Tort   51.7%   87.3%
Law and Policy of the EU I   51.4%   85.3%
Law of Property II   46.7%   76.2%
Trusts   57.2%   96.3%

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LLB awards by class: Bristol University

2008.06.08

Universities were asked, for each of the years,

[a] 2007
[b] 2006
[c] 2002
[d] 1997
[e] 1987

to provide the number of students graduating from the university with an LLB degree with each of the following awards

[a] First class honours
[b] Second class (upper division) honours
[c] Second class (lower division) honours
[d] Third class honours
[e] Pass degree
[f] Other award

If the university did not hold the information requested for some or all of the years indicated, but did hold the requested information in respect of other years, it was asked to provide information in respect of the year(s) closest in date to that/those requested.

Where appropriate universities were asked to provide information which they held relating to precursor institutions, such as the former polytechnics.

Based on the information provided by Bristol University the table below shows, as a percentage of the total awards, the awards for each class.

For each academic year the largest class by percentage is shown in bold

..

Bristol
1987
1997
2002
2006
2007
           
First class
0%
3.7%
4.5%
7.1%
5.9%
Upper Second
47.0%
59.8%
72.7%
63.9%
62.7%
Lower Second
51.3%
29.6%
20.2%
26.1%
30.2%
Third

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3.7%
2.0%
2.1%
0%
Pass
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
Other
0%
3.2%
0.5%
0.8%
1.2%
           
           

Percentage awarded firsts or upper seconds 2007   68.6%
Relative change 1997 – 2007   +8.0%
Relative change 1987 – 2007   +46.0%
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