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Important updates for the service.

Registration and attendance confirmations for academic year 2024/25
Now is a good time to undertake an ‘end of year’ clean up of your worklists. The earliest deadline for payment was 1 May. This was for liability 3 attendance confirmations to release fee payments for term 3. You should also check there are no outstanding registrations on your worklists. In addition, please check previous years for reassessments that have come back on your attendance worklist. This is to reconfirm attendance in acceptance of the changes made and will let us release payments or recover overpayments.

Postgraduate student finance applications are now open for academic year 2025/26
Student Finance England (SFE) and Student Finance Wales (SFW) students can now apply for postgraduate master’s and doctoral loans for academic year 2025/26.

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.
It's time for NI part-time undergraduate students to apply for academic year 2025/26
Part-time undergraduate students from Northern Ireland can now apply for student finance.
HEP bulletin - May 2025
This month's HEP bulletin includes information on registration for academic year 2024/25, updating courses on CMS and Bursary Administration Service.
It's time for part-time undergraduate students from England and Wales to apply for academic year 2025/26
Part-time undergraduate students from England and Wales can now apply for student finance.
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