This page contains information about term dates for 2012/13.
Term 1: Thursday 30 August – Friday 21 December, 2012
Teaching begins on Monday 3 September 2012. Students are asked to arrive from the afternoon of Thursday 30 August for the College Induction and Welcome Event the next day.
Christmas and New Year
The College closes between Christmas and New Year, when all resident students, staff and others in the College community are expected to leave (resident students’ may leave belongings in their rooms).
Term 2: Wednesday 2 January 2013 – Thursday 28 March 2013
Students may arrive back at the College after the Christmas and New Year holiday from Tuesday 1 January 2013. This day is a UK Bank Holiday, so that the first Schumacher College short course of the year, which will be one of the Masters options, will start on Wednesday 2 January.
The term ends on the Thursday before Easter. Resident students will be expected to leave the College at this time to work on their dissertation projects.
Students who wish to remain living at the College after 28 March may be able to do so by special arrangement, depending upon room availability. They must discuss and agree this with the College in advance, no later than the start of the second term. All students may continue to use College facilities (i.e. the library and computers) throughout the course programme through to late July, when the Dartington International Summer School begins.
International Summer School – Summer 2013
Students are advised that from late July through August 2013 the College and its accommodation blocks are occupied by visiting musicians who attend the Dartington International Summer Music School. Masters students may still use the computer room and the College library by special arrangement, but there are no snack or meal facilities in the College during this time.
