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  2. English school holidays - Wikipedia

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    Summer Term runs from Easter to mid-July (half term ends in late May/early June). At the end of each half-term a holiday lasts about one week (usually nine full days, including two weekends), although in the autumn term, some schools give students two week long holidays (16 full days, including 3 weekends) to account for the term being longer ...

  3. Academic year - Wikipedia

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    The Christmas holiday usually begins a few days before December 25 and ends a few days after January 5. There is up to a week off half-way through the Spring term and a two-week break for Easter. After Easter is Summer term and the 3rd half term break is the half-way point to the summer holidays. The summer holiday usually begins at the end of ...

  4. Academic term - Wikipedia

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    An academic term (or simply term) is a portion of an academic year during which an educational institution holds classes.The schedules adopted vary widely. Specific synonyms are commonly used to denote the duration or a term.

  5. Half term - Wikipedia

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    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Half_term&oldid=475037132"This page was last edited on 4 February 2012, at 22:55 (UTC). (UTC).

  6. Michaelmas term - Wikipedia

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    Michaelmas (/ ˈ m ɪ k əl m ə s / MIK-əl-məs) term is the first academic term of the academic year in a number of English-speaking universities and schools in the northern hemisphere, especially in the United Kingdom. Michaelmas term derives its name from the Feast of St Michael and All Angels, which falls on 29 September. The term runs ...

  7. Full Term - Wikipedia

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    Full Term in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge refers to the eight weeks within the longer academic term, during which lectures are given and students are required to be in residence. The dates of Full Term may differ from year to year within the fixed dates of the whole term (simply, but ambiguously, referred to as "Term" with a capital ...

  8. Trinity term - Wikipedia

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    Trinity term is the third and final term of the academic year at the University of Oxford, [1] [2] Trinity College Dublin, [3] Canterbury Christ Church University, and some private schools in the United Kingdom. It runs from about mid-April to about the end of June and is named after Trinity Sunday, which falls eight weeks after Easter, in May ...

  9. Lent term - Wikipedia

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    Lent term, named for Lent, the six-week fasting period before Easter, is the name of the winter academic term at the following British universities: University of Cambridge [1] Canterbury Christ Church University [2] University of Lancaster [3] University of Liverpool [4] London School of Economics and Political Science [5] Swansea University [6]