This information has been provided to UCAS by the Department of Education in Northern Ireland, and was made available to providers as an additional field alongside the current MCDS data.
Signing up for the data
Existing modernised contextualised data service (MCDS) customers will have automatically received the new FSM data on Northern Irish applicants.
If you’re new to MCDS, and would like to receive the data, simply complete our web form. The MCDS data will be transferred to you as a CSV file via MOVEIT.
If you have any questions or would like to change the frequency of your MCDS data supplies to daily, weekly or monthly, please email mcds@ucas.ac.uk.
Feedback
We would like to hear your feedback on how you’ve made use of FSM and MEM data so far. This will help us continue to adapt our contextual data services to best suit your needs and ensure that we can continue to supply relevant and useful contextual data for future cycles.
Please send any feedback to mcds@ucas.ac.uk.