Meaning Of Academic Year In English - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of academic year in English academic yearnoun [ C ] uk /ˌæk.əˌdem.ɪk ˈjɪər/ us /ˌæk.əˌdem.ɪk ˈjɪr/ Add to word list Add to word list the period of time each year when people attend school, college, or university, usually starting in September: He will be transferring to a new school for the next academic year. In the academic year 2019–2020, 140,000 students were enrolled at the college.

• These are the official enrolment numbers for the 2012–2013 academic year.
• Earlier in the academic year she was struggling with some of her classes.
• The competition is open to young people aged 12 to 16 who are attending a UK school during the current academic year.
• We have improved our attendance with each academic year.
• The school is proposing a shorter academic year.
• She will spend a semester abroad during the next academic year.

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Classes & courses (Definition of academic year from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of academic year

academic year Table 3 presents these data for semesters 1 and 2, in order to be able to consider any significant change across the academic year. From the Cambridge English Corpus The academic year 2002/03 saw grade 12 being newly introduced as the last grade of secondary schooling. From the Cambridge English Corpus Naturalistic observations were carried out in the two classrooms over a 10-week period during the spring semester of the academic year. From the Cambridge English Corpus All assessments were administered within a 6-week period in the middle of the academic year. From the Cambridge English Corpus One local authority, for example, required evidence of movement of at least two-thirds of a level within an academic year. From the Cambridge English Corpus Each year, information from school districts on children's adaptation to school was obtained for the academic year prior to camp. From the Cambridge English Corpus Absence was allowed on ten mornings during each of the two terms of the academic year. From the Cambridge English Corpus Intervention began in the spring of that academic year and continued throughout the following academic year, when boys were in either fifth or sixth grade. From the Cambridge English Corpus The course ran for the whole of an academic year. From the Cambridge English Corpus Individual language knowledge and use is examined in seven two hour sessions, spread over the academic year. From the Cambridge English Corpus The argument is that the invalidation of the academic year 1999-2000 did not affect the children of the political elite. From the Cambridge English Corpus End-of-course grade point average was found to be negatively correlated with the psychological stress experienced near the beginning of the academic year. From the Cambridge English Corpus During the 1999 academic year, the department mounted some 100 concerts in out-of-college venues + something of a milestone for us. From the Cambridge English Corpus Each year, information from the school district on children's adaptation to school was obtained for the academic year prior to summer camp. From the Cambridge English Corpus Student assessments in the various disciplines were held at the end of each academic year. From the Cambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of academic year?

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in Chinese (Traditional) （中小學、大學等的）學年… See more in Chinese (Simplified) （中小学、大学等的）学年… See more in Spanish año académico… See more in Portuguese ano acadêmico, ano escolar… See more in French in Turkish in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Ukrainian année scolaire, année universitaire… See more ders yılı… See more cursusjaar… See more akademický rok… See more skoleår, akademiske år… See more tahun kuliah… See more ปีการศึกษา… See more năm học… See more rok akademicki… See more läsår, skolår… See more tahun akademik… See more das Schuljahr, akademisches Jahr… See more skoleår… See more навчальний рік… See more Need a translator?

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