We made several changes to our systems for statutory HESA data returns (StarJ), Confirmation and Clearing (C&C) 2023, and the 2024 cycle for UCAS Undergraduate and UCAS Conservatoires.
We started gathering SOC 2020 data on UK domiciled applicant’s parental occupations at the start of the 2022 cycle and changes were implemented in June 2021 to allow you to receive this from us.
The second phase of this delivery is to make the data available for HESA returns and this will be delivered during 2022. The technical briefing document was issued last year ahead of the changes and has been updated to reflect the delivery of the second phase into our test environments.
Download our technical briefing document on Standard Occupation Code (SOC) enhancements (400.56 KB)
UCAS is updating its existing classifications for schools and colleges, aligning to those used by the Department for Education and the Welsh and Scottish governments. The change will be incorporated from the 2024 cycle (go live May 2023), please note no action or technical changes required by providers.
Providers can access the schools and colleges data via the normal route – eg web-link. For reference, UCAS will provide a list of schools/colleges with old and new classifications
Please circulate these changes at your provider to ensure the changes have been considered for reporting purposes.
More about updating UK establishment groups and types (283.29 KB)
xml-link and web-link will be enhanced to allow providers to share the reason(s) why a choice has not yet been confirmed which will then be passed to the applicant.
Download reason for Delayed Confirmation Decision briefing
DCF decisions list (229.63 KB)
Applicants will be presented with four new options when selecting their gender for the 2024 cycle application onwards.
We are going to make some changes to the web services description language (WSDL) used by XML-Link. Details can be found in the briefing document.
We will be making some changes to the data provided for your 2023 HESA data returns including alignment to codes used by JISC data futures.
Download HESA data (Star J) changes for the 2023 cycle briefing
Configuration details for upgraded test environment databases.
If you have any questions about the technical briefing documents, please contact the Technical Service Management Team on sdmtech@ucas.ac.uk.
If you'd like, you can also check our previous improvements below.