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Barmymoo:
--- Quote from: Metope on 22 May 2011, 14:52 ---The standard for the rest of Europe (and for the UK except Scotland) is 3 years. I'm from Norway, and the summer break usually started in early June and ended in mid-August. 4 months is pretty insane I think, can't believe the year is over already.
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The standard for the UK is to finish in June and start again in September, but Oxbridge as Schimmy mentioned have very short terms - I only have about twenty weeks of classes, and then four weeks with revision lessons and exams. We start in October and finish at the end of May, so holidays are all very long.
Oh and you get awarded an MA seven years after matriculation purely for staying out of trouble. Very stupid.
StaedlerMars:
I've always suspected that Oxford just did the whole "set really high admission standards and then do fuck all once you get there" thing. Sounds like I was right!
pwhodges:
Of course, it's never as simple as that. Even when I was there as a student (Oxford, that is), "full term" (3x 8 weeks) was simply the period within which lectures and tutorials fell - but there was plenty of stuff that was required to be done outside those dates. The weeks in full term are referred to as "1st week" - "8th week" (rather obviously), but these days calendars routinely have references to "0th week", "-2th week", "10th week" and suchlike; and some schools now have formal "extended term" dates, with stipulations of the minimum number of weeks to be spent up each year (e.g. 38 for the first degree in chemistry). And medics have crazy timetables.
The number of years varies. My Engineering degree (a BA) took three years; but the same department now offers a four-year degree (M Eng) as the minimum available option.
As for the MA - since I never went to a degree ceremony to be awarded my BA, I don't officially have it - and so the MA didn't follow either (both the degree ceremony and the subsequent MA involve paying fees, of course).
Tom:
13 wk semester plus for us plebs with a midsem break somewhere in between (Easter pushed the current one after the 8th week). This is followed by 1-2 weeks of stuvac and then 2-3 weeks of finals. Summer and Medicine remain weird.
look out! Ninjas!:
ten week semesters, with two weeks for exams, three times a year
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