Keeping up-to-date with our developments

Currently, we translate Unicode characters in applications to ASCII, for providers that don’t use Unicode. We’ll continue to provide this translation through the current link products (odbc-link, xml-link, web-link) while they are supported. However, to improve the applicant experience, our new AMS will support the UTF-8 Unicode standard when handling text only.

When we go live with our new AMS, UCAS Postgraduate providers continuing to use xml-link (until it is decommissioned) will still be able to consume their preferred standard. The text will only be available as Unicode to UCAS Postgraduate providers using our new digital user interface or our APIs to manage applications.

This principle will be extended to the other UCAS schemes when they are migrated to the new platforms. 

If you have any queries about this, please contact your technology relationship manager.

You can now bulk copy UCAS Undergraduate and UCAS Conservatoires courses for a new intake. This replaces our rollover process, including the ability to update specific start dates for the next year. Watch our webinar or take a look at our FAQs for more information.

• Ability to bulk update course start dates in the collection tool. This can be used to update start dates for multiple options for the same course, or across multiple courses.
• Three new awarding bodies added to the collection tool – Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Université Paris 2 (Panthéon-Assas), and Humboldt University of Berlin.

• Ability to bulk update additional entry requirements, and undergraduate qualification requirements, in the collection tool.
• Improvements to bulk management of course fees in the collection tool, including the ability to add or overwrite individual fees, e.g. international, remove fees, and update additional details.
• Ability to filter by qualification in the search tool.
• Provider logo to appear on course list and details pages in the search tool.

• Ability to set undergraduate and conservatoire courses’ application status to closed when the equal consideration deadline has passed.
• Qualifications in AMS:
  • Ability for an applicant to add English language skills with dates in the future.
  • A new warning modal has been added for unsaved changes in qualifications, if the applicant tries to navigate away without saving.
  • A predictive search has been added to the qualifications entry.
  • Application history shows changes to qualifications.
  • Further place of study options have been added to the place of study drop-down.
  • Applicants can add qualifications using the QAN code.
• A free text box to allow applicants to add supporting information to their English language skills.
• Application history shows when documents have been removed from an application.
• The status of an uploaded document now shows to applicants and providers.
• Providers can download documents attached to an application.
• Nationality reference data has been updated, to show the UK at the top of the list.