20 August 2025

Admissions release notes

The release notes detail the new features, bugs, and known issues in release 2025.08.

Features

The new features in release 2025.08 are as follows:

Applicant portal

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Affected topics

541866

Applicant tasks and timeline visual improvements

A few small problems have been fixed and a number of visual improvements have been implemented in the timeline and the task page in the applicant portal to make the user experience of applicants more engaging and pleasant.

Not applicable

578853

Separation of credit offer choice before decision acceptance

Applicants must choose if taking credit offers or offers without credits prior to confirming their decision to accept offers.

Not applicable

Clearing

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Clearing review

Academic reviews can take place for clearing enquiries.

What is clearing? Clearing reviews

Clearing enquiry

561301

Manual Linking of enquiry with UCAS application

Clearing officers can manually link the enquiry and UCAS application.

What is clearing? Applications

Confirmation

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Affected topics

602884

Remove response required flag to appear in confirmation grid

The response required validation has been removed from the confirmation grid. Therefore, admissions officers can view applications that don't have applicant responses.

Not applicable

Immigration

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590591

Approved student visa language test on Qualification reference data

Staff can now record if a qualification is an approved student visa language test. The Approved student visa language test checkbox available on the reference data Qualification can be selected if the institution has approved that qualification for use for immigration related activities, such as CAS requests and visa processing.

What are qualifications?

Qualifications

580221

CAS processing actions in Actions list

Staff can now view CAS processing related actions in the actions of a desk.

A new CAS section has been added to the key processing actions, which enables staff to view when an application is ready for preparing for a CAS and when it is ready for a CAS to be created. Applications appear in the Prepare for CAS and Create CAS actions when the relevant criteria are met. For example, using the Visa sponsorship status, offer and acceptance status of the application, and for Create CAS specifically, when the current date is within six months of the course start date.

Staff require the UK Visa Sponsorship - View permission to view these actions.

Attention.

Administrators in the UK must ensure that only the UK permissions are enabled. If incorrect permissions are set up, then staff could see content not relevant to them and also see applications in duplicate actions.

What are actions?

Bugs

There are no bug fixes in release 2025.08.

Known issues

None