Your academic record.
What the College knows about your studying, who else can see it, and which parts of it are yours to decide. The last question is the one most institutions answer badly.
Attempts, marks, feedback and time.
Every one, not just the best
Quiz attempts and assignment submissions are kept with their dates. A record that shows only your best attempt is a record of your best day, not your learning.
By skill and by competency
Not one aggregate. The whole reason for marking the four skills separately is lost if they are averaged before they reach you.
Attached to the work it is about
Feedback lives with the submission it responds to, so that reading it a month later still makes sense.
Your voice, kept deliberately
Speaking recordings are retained so that improvement over months can be heard. This is the point of them, and it is why they are not deleted after marking.
Three decisions that are yours, not the College’s.
An academic record is written about you by an institution. These are the points at which that arrangement is deliberately reversed.
Whether your record is shared at all
Nothing about your studying is disclosed to anyone without you deciding it should be. The College does not publish student names, marks or progress.
What a share link exposes
You can create a link that shows a specific view of your record to a specific person — an employer, a university, a sponsor — and you decide what it contains and when it stops working.
Whether you appear in the Graduate Register
The Register is a public roll of people who hold a AIPC award. Appearing in it is a choice you make, not a consequence of graduating. A graduate who wants no public entry has none.
How a stranger checks a AIPC credential.
A credential nobody can check is a decorated file. The verification route is built and open to anyone holding a code.
On every credential
Each issued credential carries a verification code and a scannable code that resolves to the same place. No account and no relationship with the College is needed to use either.
Cryptographic, not decorative
Credentials are signed, and the verification page checks the signature rather than merely looking the record up. A record that can be looked up but not verified can be forged by anyone who can make a convincing page.
Not deletion
If an award is ever withdrawn, the verification page shows it as withdrawn. A register that quietly loses entries is not a register, and the difference matters most to the people whose awards remain valid.
All of this is built and tested, and none of it has been used, because no award has been conferred on anyone — see Awards and honours. The verification system exists ahead of the first award deliberately: building it afterwards would mean the first graduates held credentials nobody could check.
Where it is held, and the gap in accountability.
In the College’s own database and storage
Records live in the College’s database; voice recordings live in its own object storage. Neither is passed to a third party for analysis, advertising or any other purpose.
A named Data Protection owner
No such person has been appointed. Until one is, questions about your data are answered by the founding team. The gap is stated here and on the Admissions policy rather than left to be discovered.