How will Ipsos MORI have access to students’ contact details? Does this raise any data protection issues?

HEIs are asked to provide Ipsos MORI with the necessary student contact details.They are also advised to tell students that they will be providing contact details for this purpose, (as they do for a number of other statutory uses of students’ personal data, for example, by HESA). This is normally set out on the HEI web site or similar. The data will be handled in full accordance with data protection legislation, as with other personal data about students that the funding bodies and other national agencies use. The survey itself will include information about the handling and uses to be made of students’ responses and the other data held about them. It will explain that neither feedback to HEIs nor published statistics will enable individuals to be identified. Students’ contact details will be destroyed once they are no longer needed, and will not be used for any other purpose.  more