Term dates

If you offer postgraduate doctoral courses, you need to enter 3 sets of term dates for all course years. This is so students receive their funding payments throughout the period of their study.

The term dates you enter determine the student’s payment dates. If you do not have terms, we still need 3 terms in our system. This is because we pay students at 3 points throughout the academic year. You should create term dates that reflect the study pattern of your students. For example, you could use any holiday periods as a natural term break.

If you enter term start or end dates that are on a weekend, the system will ask you to confirm this is correct before it lets you save the course.

Adding intakes

When you create a new course and enter term dates for all years of the course, there is an option to add another intake.

If the course you are creating has a September start, you can enter another intake that starts later in the academic year, for example January.

You cannot add an intake once you've saved a course, so you should add all intakes before you save.

You can create up to 12 intakes under a postgraduate doctoral course – only one per month.

If you need to, you can amend the first intake month when you save the course in the new academic year. For example, if your course had a September intake in the previous academic year, you can change this to October in the new academic year.