Kia ora Alex

I acknowledge receipt of your Official Information Act request.

If we have any questions or need to seek clarification on any points, we will be in touch soon. Otherwise, we will seek to respond to your request as soon as practicable and no later than 20 working days after the date your request was received (by 9 February 2023). Please note that "working days" are defined in the Act and exclude public holidays and the period between 25 December and 15 January.

If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension of this timeframe.

Ngā mihi
Kelsey

Kelsey Kennard
Official Information and Compliance Coordinator | Kaituitui Pārongo Ōkawa me te Tautukunga

Office of the Registrar | Te Tari o Te Pouroki
University of Otago | Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo
New Zealand | Aotearoa
Email | Īmera [University of Otago request email]

Kia ora Alex

I refer to your information request dated 21 December 2022 and made under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act).You have requested grade and mark distributions for 77 different papers offered by the University of Otago from 2017 - 2022.

Your request in its current form is very large and complex and therefore we are likely to need to propose a charge or decline part of the request pursuant to section 18(f) of the Act as it will require substantial research and collation. Given that your request is for a large amount of papers from several different subject areas, and is for a large time period, our staff would need to dedicate a large amount of time to respond to your request, which would unreasonably interfere with our operations.

We would be grateful if your overall request scope could be amended and/or limited so as to make the request practically manageable, such as reducing the number of papers and/or reducing the time period. As examples, our analysts have advised that if you halved the number of papers for the five-year period, this would be practically manageable. Alternatively, if you were interested in all 77 papers, reducing the time period to a two-year period would be practically manageable.

We will wait to hear back from you before we continue to process your request.

Ngā mihi
Kelsey

Kelsey Kennard
Official Information and Compliance Coordinator | Kaituitui Pārongo Ōkawa me te Tautukunga

Office of the Registrar | Te Tari o Te Pouroki
University of Otago | Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo
New Zealand | Aotearoa
Email | Īmera [University of Otago request email]

Kia ora Alex

Thank you for getting back in touch so quickly and for agreeing to limit the scope of your request.

Our analysts have confirmed that they will be able to provide the mark and grade distributions for all 77 papers for 2021 and 2022. We will continue to process your clarified request. If we have any other questions or need to seek clarification on any further points we will be in touch soon. Otherwise, we will seek to respond to your request no later than 20 working days after the date your request was clarified (by 13 February 2023). If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of an extension of this timeframe.

Ngā mihi
Kelsey

Kelsey Kennard
Official Information and Compliance Coordinator | Kaituitui Pārongo Ōkawa me te Tautukunga

Office of the Registrar | Te Tari o Te Pouroki
University of Otago | Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo
New Zealand | Aotearoa
Email | Īmera [University of Otago request email]

Kia ora Alex

Please see attached the University of Otago's response to your Official Information Act request dated 21 December 2022 (and clarified 12 January 2023).

Ngā mihi
Kelsey

Kelsey Kennard
Official Information and Compliance Coordinator | Kaituitui Pārongo Ōkawa me te Tautukunga

Office of the Registrar | Te Tari o Te Pouroki
University of Otago | Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo
New Zealand | Aotearoa
Email | Īmera [University of Otago request email]