Urgent Question from California

My daughter is a freshman at Middlesex U in London, and we just got some profoundly disturbing news. Do all universities in the UK get a FIVE MONTH SUMMER....? What are we going to do?? Does this count as a full academic year?? :stupido3:

Reply 1

TSR Community Staff

Firstly, no, not all universities get a 5 month summer holiday. That seems very long - though many unis do have long summer holidays. I went to the University of York and there the summer break was usually about 13 weeks or 3 months (end of June to start of October).

I've look this up for you and Middlesex seem to have very odd term dates. I've found this link to their calendar: http://www.middlesex.ac.uk/aboutus/docs/acad-cal-07-08.pdf

It's very complex and I can't work out what is what really, but it's has the 2007/8 term dates on the right hand side of the lower page - hopefully knowing more about that uni, you might be able to follow it better than me to find any other info you want.