The new academic year begins on August 1st 2025. Preparations for the change of academic year have been ongoing for some time and ther changes made to bud in preparation for this can be found in the following articles:
2025-26 Funding rules
2025-26 Ilr Specification Changes
To support the 2025 to 2026 academic year we need to perform several essential technical changes.
To release these changes, we will be taking the Bud platform offline from:
- 11pm on 31st July to approximately 3am 1st August
When the changes have been completed and the platform reinstated you will see a number of subtle changes as we stop supporting the 23/24 ILR and switch support to the 24/25 and 25/26 ILRs.
Your data will be automatically copied into the 25/26 ILR schema and the appropriate validation rules applied to it. You will be able to access and edit data for the outgoing 24/25 academic year up until the R14 submission window closes at 6 pm on the 23rd of October (at which point 24/25 data will become read-only).
Due to the transition between academic years a Data Warehouse (DWH) update will not occur on the night of the 31st July, but will resume as normal on the 1st Aug. This means you will not see your ILR data updated in the DWH until the morning of the 2nd August.