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Publication Scheme

What is a Publication Scheme?

The Freedom of Information Act came fully into force on 1 January 2005 and aims to promote greater openness and accountability across the public sector. It gives a general right of access to all types of recorded information held by public authorities (including universities), sets out exemptions from that right and places a number of obligations on public authorities.

Under Section 19 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the University is required to maintain a publicly available Publication Scheme; a document that outlines the information that the University routinely publishes, currently makes available or intends to do so in the future. It is not a list of actual documents, but a guide to the different ‘classes’ or types of information the University is committed to proactively make available.

The publication scheme is intended to assist the public in finding information held by the University and to reduce the need to make a formal FOI request for information.

In this section

How the scheme is organised

The University has adopted the issued in October 2021, which is organised into seven classes of information:

  • Advice and guidance, booklets and leaflets, transactions and media releases. A description of the services offered.

    Information about the majority of the services we offer is available online.  These include:

    Our courses:

    • Studying through the medium of Welsh
    • View our Undergraduate prospectus
    • Search our Undergraduate courses
    • Find out about our Apprenticeships
    • Find out about the courses we offer online and through distance learning
    • Search our Postgraduate courses
    • Find out about our Work-Based Learning
    • Find out about our programmes and courses for International Students
    • Our Parents Guide to the application process
    • How to apply

    Our Fees:

    • Undergraduate Fees
    • Postgraduate Fees
    • Overseas Fees
    • Our Fee and Access Plans

    Our Student Support Services:

    • Careers Service
    • Counselling Service
    • Togetherall
    • Financial Support
    • International
    • Services for Disabled Students
    • PASS (Peer Assisted Study Sessions)
    • Study Skills Support
    • Support for Students From Care
    • Student Wellbeing
    • Emergency Contacts

     Other Student Services:

    • Faith and Spirituality
    • Information Technology and Systems
    • Library and Learning Resources
    • Sport
    • Student Hub
    • Student Accommodation
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    • Study Abroad and Exchange

     Other Services:

    • Conference And Wedding Services
    • Events
    • External Complaints
    • Information for Alumni
    • Information for Business
    • Information for Communities
    • Jobs at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø
    • Latest News and Events

The University is committed to making information available to the public which falls within those classes. More details about each class are available in the .

Additional Information...

Information excluded from the scheme

Information available in the classes will not normally include:

  • Information that is deemed to be exempt under one of the FOI exemptions or Environmental Information Regulations (EIRs) exemptions, or its release is prohibited under another statute;
  • Information which is archived, out of date or otherwise inaccessible; or
  • Information that would be impractical or resource-intensive to prepare for routine release.

 
Alternative formats

Should you require information in an alternative format or language, please contact the University Records Manager.

Charging

Much of the information is available free of charge on our website. In cases where it is impractical for us to make information available via the web, or the information is available in hard copy format only the University reserves the right to levy charges to cover photocopying, postage and packaging. Such cases will be subject to a minimum charge of £5.00. If the request exceeds 50 A4 pages an additional charge of 10p per sheet will be made. Standard postage will be applied at Royal Mail rates.

Other information

Please be aware that the majority of documents included in this publication scheme have been created primarily for internal purposes. This may occasionally create minor problems of intelligibility for external readers. Please send any requests for guidance to foi@uwtsd.ac.uk

If you cannot find the information you are looking for via the publication scheme, you may wish to try the web search facility, available in the top right of the home page.

Information held by the University which is not published under this scheme can be requested in writing. Such requests will then be considered in accordance with the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, Environmental Information Regulations and the Data Protection Act. Please e-mail foi@uwtsd.ac.uk or see the FOI pages for further details.

Copyright

Almost all publications listed in this scheme are copyright of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø; reproduction of material supplied through the publication scheme or in response to a request for information without the express permission of the University (or copyright holder) may be an infringement of copyright.

Get in Touch

Paul Osborne
Data Protection Officer
Tel: 01792  481180 

Email: foi@uwtsd.ac.uk

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