Trinity term is the third and final term of the academic year at the University of Oxford , Trinity College Dublin , 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 or June.
7-676: At the University of Oxford, following the resolution made by Council on 8 May 2002, Trinity Term begins on and includes 20 April or the Wednesday after Easter, whichever is later, and ends on and includes 6 July. In Trinity Term, as in Michaelmas Term and Hilary Term , there is a period of eight weeks known as Full Term, beginning on a Sunday, within which lectures and other instruction prescribed by statute or regulation are given. The dates on which each Full Term will begin and end in
14-646: Is divided by the Courts of England and Wales and the Courts of Northern Ireland . While the name is not used in the legal systems of the United States, where most American courts operate on continuous year-round calendars without terms, the U.S. Supreme Court roughly follows the English custom by beginning its annual nine-month term on the first Monday in October, a few days after Michaelmas. Universities in
21-530: 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 from September or October to Christmas. The term is also the name of the first of four terms into which the legal year
28-554: The legal year is divided by the Courts of England and Wales , from 22 May to 12 June, during which the superior courts were formerly open. Trinity term is also used for the sitting of the High Court of Justice of England between 9 June and 31 July also known as Trinity sitting . Schools and universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland which use the name 'Trinity term' include: Michaelmas Term Michaelmas ( / ˈ m ɪ k əl m ə s / MIK -əl-məs ) term
35-660: The United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland which use the name 'Michaelmas term' as of July 2018 include: In addition, the name is used unofficially in several other University of London colleges. It also used to be the third and final term at the University of Sydney before it swapped over to the two- semester system in 1989. It was formerly used at Heythrop College , King's College London , University of Kent , London School of Economics and University of Wales, Lampeter . The University of Exeter no longer seems to use
42-628: The name officially, as it formerly did (the term dates on their website don't use it), but their Anglican Chaplaincy retains the name. At the University of Oxford, following the resolution made by Council on 8 May 2002, Michaelmas Term begins on and includes 1 October and ends on and includes 17 December. In the Michaelmas Term, as in Hilary Term and in Trinity Term , there is a period of eight weeks known as Full Term, beginning on
49-528: The next academic year but one are published by the Registrar in the University Gazette during Hilary Term. At the University of Sydney , it was the second and coldest of the three terms, running from the 24th to the 34th Mondays of the year (late May to early August) in the middle of winter, until Sydney changed over to the two semester system in 1989. The term is also one of four into which
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