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Eights Week, also known as Summer Eights, is a four-day regatta of bumps races which constitutes the University of Oxford's main intercollegiate rowing event of the year. The regatta takes place in May of each year, from the Wednesday to the Saturday of the fifth week of Trinity Term .
It is housed in Madingley Hall, about four miles west of the Cambridge city limits. [29] Madingley Hall was built in the 1540s and was later rented by Queen Victoria for the young Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) while he was a student at Cambridge. [15] [29] [30] The Hall incorporates 14 classrooms, 62 study bedrooms and full catering. [31]
[136] [137] The proportion of undergraduates drawn from independent schools has dropped over the years, constituting, as of 2020, 26% of total admissions among the university's 3,436 applicants from independent schools compared to 23% of the 9,237 applications from state schools. [138] Cambridge, together with Oxford and Durham, was among those ...
The term is also the name of the first of four terms into which the legal year 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 ...
Netherlands: Utrecht Summer School - Utrecht (2010) [25] Norway: International Summer School Oslo - Oslo (2011) [26] Russia: NYI Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture - St. Petersburg [27] every summer since 2003 France: International School in Linguistic Fieldwork (FieldLing) [28] every summer since 2010
The summer solstice is actually the same thing as the "first day of summer," so it also takes place on Thursday, June 20. Specifically, it'll occur at 4:50 p.m. EST.
In North America, summer officially begins on Thursday, June 20. It’s the longest day of the year and follows Father's Day and Juneteenth, which fall earlier in the same week.
Summer school (or summer university) is a school, or a program generally sponsored by a school or a school district, or provided by a private company, that provides lessons and activities during the summer vacation. Participation in summer schools has been shown to have substantial beneficial effects on education.