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Spring term attendance confirmations

Please submit your spring term attendance confirmations as soon as you're confident that students are in attendance. You must make your submissions by close of business on Thursday 1 May to make sure of payment of tuition fees on Wednesday 7 May.

Course collection for academic year 2025/26

You should now be concluding course submissions for academic year 2025/26. You should update postgraduate master's courses for SFE and SFW students on CMS by 11 April. For all part time undergraduate courses and postgraduate master's courses for Northern Ireland, the deadline for these is Friday 18 April.

Maintaining contacts

The HE Gateway holds a list of HEP contacts that use each service under the Maintain Contacts tab. If we need to contact someone at your university or college, we use this list to identify the most appropriate person. We’ll also send service updates and news bulletins to this list of contacts. Please take the time to review and update your contact information to ensure it’s up to date.

Latest news

Service updates, bulletins and other news about the delivery of student finance.

8/04/2025

HEP bulletin - April 2025

Our HEP bulletin for April has information about attendance confirmations, course collection and fee changes.

10/03/2025

SFE full time undergraduate applications are now open for academic year 2025/26

New and continuing full time undergraduate students from England can now apply for student finance.

3/03/2025

HEP bulletin - March 2025

Our HEP bulletin for March has information about worklists, registration confirmations and financial reporting.

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Creating courses

Creating a DSA course

Explains how to create a DSA course to allow your students to access DSA support.

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Term dates

An overview of term dates and their importance when adding full-time undergraduate courses to CMS.

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Confirming ongoing attendance

Negative attendance confirmation

Negative attendance confirmation and attendance codes explained.

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Confirming ongoing ATTENDANCE

Attendance Home

An introduction to the attendance home page.

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