Kia ora
 
Thank you for your email. 
 
If you are making a request under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA),
the University will be in touch to acknowledge your request and discuss
further if necessary.
 
Please note that the OIA statutory holiday period is 25 December 2025 to
15 January 2026 (inclusive), and any requests made during this period will
have a decision due date of 13 February 2026.
 
The University is currently experiencing high volumes of OIA requests.
Accordingly, we would be grateful if you could please instead consider the
following alternative methods to answer commonly requested information:

* If you are a prospective student seeking information to apply to study
with us, please contact the University’s Student Success Advisers for
admissions advice:
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* If you are a student seeking advice on studies, student
administration, support services, and student life in general, please
contact Tîtoko—Centre for Student Success:
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Report, Ki te râ—Student Wellbeing Outcomes Framework, Strategic Plan
and more, you can find these on the University’s website here:
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If you have found the information through any of the alternative means,
please confirm by email if you would like to withdraw your OIA request.
Otherwise, if we do not hear back from you, we will proceed with your
request as normal.
 
Thank you.
 
Ngâ mihi
OIA Team
Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington

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Kia ora

 

Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982  (OIA) request of 31
March 2026, in which you requested:

 

" I seek the following information for the 2024 academic year:

1. The average grades for all papers offered by Victoria University of
Wellington.

2. The number of students enrolled in each course."

 

I am emailing to advise that your request as currently framed would
require substantial collation and research to respond, as the University
offers more than 2,000 courses and responding to your request would
require collating information from each, creating significant and
unreasonable impact on the University's ability to carry out its other
operations. Accordingly, your request is likely to be refused under
section 18(f) of the OIA.

 

In the first instance:

o A noted in our auto-response, if you are a student seeking grade
distributions please contact your course coordinator of lecturer
directly for this information.
o Additionally, please note that a large number of other individuals
have requested similar information via the FYI website. We encourage
you to view the University’s responses to previous OIA requests for
grade distributions on the FYI website (see here:
[1]https://fyi.org.nz/body/vuw) to determine whether any of the
information you are seeking is already publicly available.

 

If you find the information you are seeking from the above means, please
ensure you notify us by email if you wish to withdraw your OIA request
following this.

 

If you wish to proceed with your OIA request, in order to assist us in
preparing a response, can you please confirm whether you are happy to
amend your request to be limited to 10 courses of your choosing.

 

If there is any additional information you can provide that can assist us
to narrow the scope of your request, please let us know.

 

Please reply with confirmation of the above by 7 April 2026. If we do not
hear back from you in this time, we will proceed with your original
request.

 

Please note, any clarification or amendment of a request is considered to
be a new request for the purpose of calculating the maximum statutory
timeframe for response—see section 15(1AA) of the Official Information
Act.

 

Ngâ mihi

 

Kayana Shaw (she/her)

Senior Advisor, Official Information and Privacy | Legal Services

Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington

[2]www.wgtn.ac.nz | 0800 04 04 04

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Byrne <[FOI #34316 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, 31 March 2026 12:05 pm
To: OIA Requests <[VUW request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Average grade of courses offered
in 2025

 

Dear Victoria University of Wellington,

 

I am writing to request information under the Official Information Act
1982. Specifically, I seek the following information for the 2024 academic
year:

 

1. The average grades for all papers offered by Victoria University of
Wellington.

2. The number of students enrolled in each course.

 

If any clarification is required or if any part of this request is too
broad, I would be happy to discuss and refine it accordingly. Please let
me know if any charges apply before processing the request.

 

Thank you for your time and assistance. I look forward to your response.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Benjamin

 

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Kia ora

Please find attached a response to your Official Information Act 1982 request of 31 March 2026.

Ngā mihi

Kayana Shaw (she/her)
Senior Advisor, Official Information and Privacy | Legal Services
Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington
http://www.wgtn.ac.nz/ | 0800 04 04 04

-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Byrne <[FOI #34316 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, 31 March 2026 3:22 pm
To: OIA Requests <[VUW request email]>
Subject: Re: Refinement: OIA 036 Byrne - Grade distributions

Dear OIA Requests,

I have made a mistake and was actually asking for the 2025 average grades. I can cut it down to: BCOM101, BCOM102, ACCY130, INFO102, INFO101, COML111, ACCY131, STAT193.

If I could have the following about these courses in 2025:

1. Number of students receiving each grade (A+, A, A- etc) 2. Median grade for each course 3. Number of participants in each course.

Yours sincerely,

Benjamin Byrne

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Kia ora

Thank you for your Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) request of 31 March 2026, in which you requested:

" I seek the following information for the 2024 academic year:

1. The average grades for all papers offered by Victoria University of Wellington.

2. The number of students enrolled in each course."

I am emailing to advise that your request as currently framed would require substantial collation and research to respond, as the University offers more than 2,000 courses and responding to your request would require collating information from each, creating significant and unreasonable impact on the University's ability to carry out its other operations. Accordingly, your request is likely to be refused under section 18(f) of the OIA.

In the first instance:

o A noted in our auto-response, if you are a student seeking grade distributions please contact your course coordinator of lecturer directly for this information.
o Additionally, please note that a large number of other individuals have requested similar information via the FYI website. We encourage you to view the University’s responses to previous OIA requests for grade distributions on the FYI website (see here:
[1]https://fyi.org.nz/body/vuw) to determine whether any of the information you are seeking is already publicly available.

If you find the information you are seeking from the above means, please ensure you notify us by email if you wish to withdraw your OIA request following this.

If you wish to proceed with your OIA request, in order to assist us in preparing a response, can you please confirm whether you are happy to amend your request to be limited to 10 courses of your choosing.

If there is any additional information you can provide that can assist us to narrow the scope of your request, please let us know.

Please reply with confirmation of the above by 7 April 2026. If we do not hear back from you in this time, we will proceed with your original request.

Please note, any clarification or amendment of a request is considered to be a new request for the purpose of calculating the maximum statutory timeframe for response—see section 15(1AA) of the Official Information Act.

Ngâ mihi

Kayana Shaw (she/her)

Senior Advisor, Official Information and Privacy | Legal Services

Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington

[2]http://www.wgtn.ac.nz/ | 0800 04 04 04

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[FOI #34316 email]

Disclaimer: This message and any reply that you make will be published on the internet. Our privacy and copyright policies:
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