Dear Mr Benson,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - INFORMATION REQUEST

Following your request of 26th April 2010, and our acknowledgement of the same
date, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (GSMD) responds as follows.
FOI Request Terrorism Legislation
I would like to request the following information under the provisions of the
Freedom of Information Act. I would ask you to send your response by e-mail.

Q1 Does your institution provide any information or advice to students or staff

on any potential liability under Terrorism legislation which might result from
accessing materials for teaching or research ? If so please provide copies of
any documents held which detail or refer to such information or advice.
Staff - none
Students - Appendix b to Section 5A (Student Code of Conduct & Disciplinary
Procedure) of Academic regulatory framework alerts students to the legal
requirement to report incidents, in certain circumstances, to the police under
prevention of terrorism legislation - attached
Q2 Does your institution have any kind of procedure to review or assess reading
lists, module descriptors or other teaching materials which explicitly or in
practice considers questions of safety and risk under terrorism legislation as
part of its remit ? For example does the institution have anything similar or
analogous to the 'module review process' established at Nottingham University
described here :
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=407122
http://www.teachingterrorism.net/2009/08/03/nottingham-censorship-a-defence
http://www.teachingterrorism.net/2009/08/06/is-vetting-at-nottingham-in-defence-
of-academic-freedom

If so please supply full details of this policy and procedure and advise when
and how it was decided upon and implemented.
No

Q3 Does your institution have any system, policy or procedure in place for
dealing with any potential actions taken by the authorities against the
institution, its students or staff under Terrorism legislation ? If so please
supply a copy of the policy and advise the date it was decided upon and
implemented.

Staff - no
Students - only generally in respect of criminal offences (see Regulation 4 and
appendix b to Student Code (attached above in response to question 1))
Q4 Does your institution have any system, policy or procedure in place for
preventing violent extremism as recommended for example in the government
guidance document Promoting Good Campus Relations
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/tna/+/http://www.dius.gov.uk/publicati
ons/extremismhe.pdf
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/publications/extremismhe.pdf>

Please indicate what procedures or policy exist and advise when it was decided
upon and implemented, and provide copies of any documents held which detail or
refer to such policy or procedures.

No
If you wish to make a complaint about the way the City of London has handled
your enquiry under the Freedom of Information Act, please make your complaint in
writing to our Complaints Officer: Katharine Lewis, Guildhall School of Music &
Drama, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DT, or email: katharine.lewis@gsmd.ac.uk). We
aim to respond to any complaint within 20 working days beginning from the first
working day after receipt of the complaint. If, having received our response to
your complaint, you are still dissatisfied, you may under the FOIA request the
Information Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information
Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Telephone: (01625) 545700. Website: http://www.ico.gov.uk/ .
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Yours sincerely,
Katie Hudson
Student Systems & Information Manager
Guildhall School of Music and Drama,
Silk Street,
Barbican,
London
EC2Y 8DT
+44 (0)207 382 7184 - Direct Line
+44 (0)207 382 7220 - Fax
www.gsmd.ac.uk <file://www.gsmd.ac.uk>