12 June 2025
SY
By email
: [FYI request #30688 email]
Dear SY
OIA 25.276 Headcount of specific courses
I refer to the Official Information Act (the Act) request dated 15 May 2025 regarding headcount of specific
courses. You have specifical y requested:
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I'd to know the headcount of specific courses in fol owing:
Cinematic Arts
Game Arts
Game Development
Screen Sound
Screenwriting
Moving Image
Graphic Design
Painting
Photography
Sculpture
Composition
Creative Music Technology
Music Studies
Performance
On 21 May 2025, the Information and Records Management team asked for the fol owing clarification of the
request –
Regarding your OIA request OIA 25.276, may you please confirm a timeframe for the headcount information
you are requesting?
Also, if there are any course codes of specific courses that you are interested (i.e. FINA101) that you that wish
to highlight, that would be greatly appreciated.
On 22 May 2025, you clarified the fol owing courses that you were interested in were:
MUSA110 Composer's Toolbox
MUSA213 Composition in Context
MUSA210 Composer's Toolbox
MUSA224 Orchestration and Arranging
MUSA311 Composition Studio
MUSA313 Composition in Context
MUSA228 Audio production
MUSA300 Musicianship, Harmony, and Analysis 3
MUSA331 Music, Ideas and Revolution
MUSA337 Early Music
MUSA141 Performance 1A
MUSA142 Performance 1B
MUSA241 Performance 2A
MUSA242 Performance 2B
MUSA341 Performance 3A
DESI211 Graphic Design 2A
DESI212 Graphic Design 2B
DESI311 Graphic Design 3
DESI411 Graphic Design 4
PAIN211 Painting 2A
PAIN212 Painting 2B
PAIN311 Painting 3
PAIN411 Painting 4
PHOT211 Photography 2A
PHOT212 Photography 2B
PHOT311 Photography 3
PHOT411 Photography 4
SCUL211 Sculpture 2A
SCUL212 Sculpture 2B
SCUL311 Sculpture 3
SCUL411 Sculpture 4
Please see attached the headcount numbers for the above courses for the 2023 and 2024 academic years as of
April and December in each year. If there is a blank cell in the spreadsheet there are no enrolments in that
course.
Please note that where there are five or less students in a particular category, the actual number is not
provided, rather a range of less than or equal to five (≤5). This is to protect the individual’s privacy under s
9(2)(a) of the Act. It is in the public interest that individuals are not identifiable when providing information
about student enrolment numbers.
You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision. Information about
how to make a complaint is available
at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
Yours sincerely
Information and Records Management
Attachment: OIA 25.276 Data
