Academic Year Selection

When creating new applications, it will be mandatory to select one of the following academic years:

  • 2025-26
  • 2024-25 & earlier

The selection will be made when creating the sub record for the application.

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There will be another chance to change your selection on the "Candidate Overview" page.

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The selection will determine two key things for the application:

  • Minimum duration validation – either 8 months (25/26) or 12 months (24/25 & earlier)
  • Minimum OTJ – either the set values per standard (25/26) or the 20% calculation (24/25 & earlier)
    At the time of releasing this, we will default all existing applications to 24/25 & earlier.

It will not be possible to edit the academic year during the application edit flow after the initial enrolment.

Please note that we have decided not to include the academic year selection in the API to create applications. We appreciate you may not know the academic year at this point. For applications created via the API, you will be able to make the selection on the "Candidate Overview" page in Bud.

Please note that changing the academic year will reset any previously collected signatures on application documents and clear the information entered on the "Set programme dates" page. This is to ensure that the correct logic can be applied to the applications, based on their start date, to help with compliance of the funding rules.