News

Changes to functionality

20 June 2016

With the release of the new graduate application form, the functionality of various elements attached to the current application form will change. Please see an extensive list of these below: Queries Accessible via : Reporting Tools > Query > Query Viewer Stakeholders affected : GAO and Funding Bodies The following...

Applicant child age - age range confirmation

17 June 2016

Thank you for your responses received by the lead accountable contacts for the colleges to the ‘child ages’ questionnaire that was sent out on Friday, 3 rd June. Fortunately, feedback appears to have tallied, leading to the following conclusions: Age ranges are an acceptable alternative to date of birth to capture the ages...

Lead contacts, key dates and new application form draft

13 June 2016

The new Graduate Application Form is scheduled for release in early September this year. This is the first of our regular communications to be sent to stakeholders across the University and the colleges to convey important information about this new form and any connecting processes prior to its release. Feedback to these...

College lead accountable contacts

3 June 2016

The new graduate application form will be released on Monday, 5 th September. To help facilitate this, a lead accountable contact for each college is required. These have been identified on the Lead Accountable Contact . It will be the responsibility of these contacts to: Read every communication received from the project...

Applicant child ages

2 June 2016

A request has been made to all lead accountable contacts for colleges to fill out the following questionniare: http://www.gap.admin.cam.ac.uk/capturing-ages-applicants-children The ages of children specified by applicants within their application form are currently captured through a date of birth field; with this data...

Application form roll out dates

1 June 2016

Details of the cut over plan have been released, which can be found here . A short synopsis is as follows: 09/08/2016 - Applicants with unsubmitted applications are to be warned of pending closure of application system 23/08/2016 - The application system will no longer be accessible 24/08/2016 - All submitted applications...

Application form output review - support required

23 May 2016

The Graduate Admissions Project (GAP) is reaching a critical stage of its second phase - the re-creation of the online graduate application form - which requires support and guidance from the wider stakeholders of the project. A draft template of the Output PDF that is generated once an applicant has submitted his or her...

Usability testing - Round 1

11 May 2016

Usability testing for Round 1 has now taken place, which consisted of Cambridge graduates working through the existing graduate application form. The purpose of this was two-fold: firstly to understand the things that work well and not so well within the current system, which will help to form decisions for the new system...

Roll-call for the mailing list

3 May 2016

With just over three months remaining before the release of the new online graduate application form, it is important that stakeholders of the project from across different areas of the university are kept up to date with its progress. To sign up to the mailing list, please click here .

Website update

18 April 2016

Over the past weeks, several changes have been made to the GAP website in order to improve its usability and convey more information about the project and its progress as a whole. These changes will be ongoing, but if you have any recommendations about how the website could be improved or if there is content that you would...