Release notes
v2025.0 — 23 July 2025
Date published: 23 July 2025
Overview
This release note sets out changes to reference data used in the Register service for the 2025 to 2026 academic year.
It includes:
- new data values
- removed values
- updated labels
- values that are not currently supported
- confirmation of unchanged data items
These changes must be reflected in provider submissions.
New values
The following new value has been added:
Training route
| Code | Label |
|---|---|
| 14 | Teacher Degree Apprenticeship |
Removed values
The following value has been removed and must no longer be used:
Training route
| Code | Label |
|---|---|
| 13 | Provider-led salaried postgraduate |
Updated values
The following existing values have had their labels updated to improve clarity or reflect current policy. The codes have not changed.
Fund code
| Code | Label |
|---|---|
| 2 | Not eligible for student finance |
| 7 | Eligible for student finance |
Unsupported values
The following values are not currently supported by the Register service and must not be used. These have either never been accepted or are now explicitly excluded.
Nationality
| Code | Label |
|---|---|
| AA | Stateless |
| EH | Western Sahara |
| GS | South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands |
| MP | Northern Mariana Islands |
| QN | Serbia and Montenegro not otherwise specified |
| QO | Kosovo |
| XC | Cyprus not otherwise specified |
| XL | Channel Islands not otherwise specified |
| XM | Czechoslovakia not otherwise specified |
| XN | USSR not otherwise specified |
| XO | Yugoslavia not otherwise specified |
| ZZ | Not known |
Age range
| Code | Label |
|---|---|
| 99801 | Teacher training qualification for further education or higher education |
| 99803 | Teacher training qualification described as other |
No changes
The following reference data items have not changed. All existing values under these categories remain valid and supported:
- Age ranges (excluding unsupported codes listed above)
- Awarding institution
- Course subjects
- Degree country
- Degree grade
- Degree subject
- Degree types
- Disabilities
- Ethnicity
- Fund code (excluding updated labels above)
- Funding method
- ITT aim
- Nationality (excluding unsupported codes listed above)
- Qualification aim
- Sex
- Study mode
- Training initiative
- Training route (excluding changes listed above)
If you have questions, contact the Register team.