Changes to academic year

The University Senate has approved a proposal to revise the academic year.

The changes will come into effect from the beginning of 2011/12.

This will give students extra revision and staff extra teaching time.

Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA) and academic teaching staff have been keen to see changes to the current amount of teaching and revision time.

Semester one changes

The proposal will introduce a revision week at the end of the 11-week teaching block.

To accommodate this, the start date will fall two weeks after the last Monday in August and term end will run closer to Christmas.

The revision week will be followed by a two-week examination block and a three-week Christmas holiday period.

No teaching for undergraduate and postgraduate taught students will take place during this time.

Semester two changes

Teaching will commence around the beginning of January.

There will be 12 weeks of teaching followed by a revision week.

The examination block will be reduced from five weeks to four.

We are pleased that Senate has given its support to the proposal, which offers students a week’s extra revision time in semester one and a week’s extra teaching in semester two.

Documentation

Documentation on these changes is available from the Academic Affairs Section.

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