Term Dates

Each Reading Break commences on Friday at 5.00pm

University Centre Year equates to 30 Teaching Weeks*

* Although the HE teaching year is 30 weeks – this includes 5 days scheduled staff development training (to allow UCS to meet the DfE CPD requirement). As a consequence the taught time for degree students is equivalent to 29 weeks for HE programmes. 

1st years (full and part-time): Monday 16 September 2019 to Wednesday 11 December 2019

2nd and 3rd years: Monday 23 September 2019 to Friday 13 December 2019

MSc: Monday 23 September 2019 to Friday 13 December 2019

Reading Break
Monday 28 October 2019 to Friday 1 November 2019

Christmas Holiday 2019
Sparsholt will close at 5pm on Friday 13 December 2019 for the Christmas break.

Monday 6 January 2020 to Thursday 2 April 2020 (12 teaching weeks)

Reading Break
Monday 17 February 2020 to Friday 21 February 2020

Monday 20 April 2020 to Friday 12 June 2020 (7 teaching weeks)

Bank Holiday Closure
Friday 8 May 2020

Monday 25 May 2020

Reading Break
Monday 25 May 2020 to Friday 29 May 2020