In China, all schools including elementary, middle and high schools, colleges and universities have two semesters. First from September to January, and the other from February or March, depending on the date of Chinese New Year of that year, to July. »View More
Generally in Canada, high schools run on a two-semester arrangement (often with a between-semester school holiday including Christmas and New Year’s Day), also known as fall and spring semester, the first semester starting from September to late-December and the second running from January until June. The semesters are often divided into two terms each. Some schools in Canada run on a trimester system, the first running from September to January, the second from January... Read More....
In Belgium, kindergarten, elementary and secondary schools begin on 1 September and end on June 30. Schools also take breaks/holidays: * Autumn break: One week at the start of November * Christmas break Two weeks around Christmas and New Year * Spring break One week at the end of February. * Easter break Two weeks around Easter. * Summer break is the break from the 1st of July until the 31st of August Read More…. »View More
In Bangladesh, the kindergarten, elementary and schools follow bi-semester system. Most of the public universities follow a yearly system except universities that teach Applied Sciences. Most engineering and agricultural universities follow a bi-semester system with each semester being six months long. Engineering universities describe the academic year system as YEAR-X(1-4), TERM-X(1-4).This system is followed by universities like BUET, and SUST. Most of the private universities... Read More....
In Brazil, due to the Law of Directives and Bases of Brazilian Education, the academic year must have 200 days, both at schools and at universities. The school year usually begins during the first week of February. There is a 3-week long winter break in July. The Brazilian school year ends in December, summer in Brazil. In Brazilian universities academic terms are defined as periods or semesters (período, semestre). The majority of academic degrees courses are 8 semesters (four-year)... Read More....
The Barbadian school year is fashioned after the British system, and as such, it follows a scheduling with three terms per school year. The first term begins the second week of September, adjourning in mid-December. The second term begins in the second week of January, adjourning in the first week of April. The final third term begins at the end of April and concludes in the first week of July. »View More
The Austrian school year for primary and secondary schools is split into two terms, the first one starts on the first Monday in September in the states of Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland and on the second Monday of September in Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Tyrol and Vorarlberg. Most schools have holidays between the national holiday on October 26 and All Souls Day on November 2, but those are unofficial holidays not observed by all schools in Austria. Christmas... Read More....
In most of Australia, the school year lasts from late January to early December, and is split into four terms: * Term 1 starts in late January or early February and ends one or two weeks before Easter * Term 2 starts one or two weeks after Easter and ends in late June. * Term 3 starts in mid-July and ends mid-September. * Term 4 starts in early October and ends mid-December. The exact dates vary from year to year, »View More