Jersey Bursary applications (FOI)

Request

A
I would like to know how many people, each year for the last five years, have applied for a Jersey Bursary for a fulltime postgraduate master's degree or a doctorate of up to £10,000. 

B
How many students have been awarded the bursary each year for the last five years?

C
What subjects have the students gone to study, and where in the last five years?

D
How many students who have been awarded the bursary have returned to Jersey on completion of their studies?

E
How much has been spent on the Jersey Bursary scheme in the last five years?

Response

A

B

C

The Education Department has determined that the courses studied and at which university is the personal information of the student in receipt of the Jersey Bursary, and therefore absolutely exempt under Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

D

The Education Department do not hold the information requested and therefore, cannot provide any detail on the numbers of students in receipt of a Jersey Bursary returning to the Island after completing their studies.

E

 
 *The figure provided for the current year reflects the funding as provided to students receiving Jersey Bursaries in their first year. More funding from the Bursary will be supplied for Year 2 or in some cases, Year 3 of the Masters courses. It is considered likely that this figure will reach £125,000.

Exemptions

Article 25      Personal Information

(1)     Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2)     Information is absolutely exempt information if –
(a)     it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005; and
(b)     its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.