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Definition: Academic Year |
Academic YearNoun1. The period of time each year when the school is open and people are studying. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Federal Student Aid | A time period of at least 30 instructional weeks in which a full-time undergraduate student is expected to complete* 24 semester or trimester hours or 36 quarter hours at an institution using credit hours in an educational program whose length is measured in credit hours, or* at least 900 clock hours at an institution using clock hours.There is an exception to the 30-week requirement for schools with at least a two-year or four-year academic program that leads to an associate or bachelor's degree. Those schools may request, in writing, that ED reduce the minimum period of instructional time of the academic year for any of its programs -- as long as they are at least 26 weeks in length. AY. (references) |
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Synonym: Academic YearSynonym: school year (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Academic Year |
| English words defined with "academic year": prom, promenade ♦ semester ♦ trimester. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "academic year": Demon Internet Ltd. ♦ o For a program not using a semester, trimester, or quarter system ♦ Satisfactory Academic Progress, self care unit. (references) |
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Business | During the 1999-2000 academic year, approximately 4,000 Kuwaiti students attended foreign universities, colleges, trade & specialty schools. (references) | |
The U.S. commercial Service in Kuwait has surveyed 107 Kuwaiti students receiving U.S. student Visas for the Academic Year 2000-2001. In the survey students were asked to list all the most important sources of information used in the selection of an American university or college. (references) | ||
The most recent indicator of this capacity problem manifested itself in the rejection by Kuwait University of 600 otherwise qualified graduates for the 2000-2001 academic year. While plans are under way that would add new campuses to Kuwait's public university system, action has been slow. In addition, there have also been discussions concerning the establishment of local campuses of foreign universities (as is common elsewhere in the region). (references) | ||
Children | Italy | The dropout rate for the academic year 2000-01 was 4.6 percent. (references) |
Ghana | In the 1998-99 academic year, the University of Ghana enrolled 852 women and 2,226 men. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | According to government statistics, 57 percent of school age children attended primary school in the 2000-2001 academic year. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Niger | As a result of financial problems and student strikes, the 2000-2001 academic year was interrupted in February. (references) |
Thailand | Students at the primary level are required to take 80 hours of instruction per academic year in religious studies classes. (references) | |
Russia | On July 18, municipal authorities issued a decree closing the school for the upcoming academic year and transferred the students to another school. (references) | |
Economic History | Uk | The total number of students in further and higher education in the 1999/2000 academic year was 4.7 million and 1.8 million, respectively. (references) |
France | For the academic year 1999/2000, over 14,000 student and exchange visas were issued in France for the United States (6,877 of which were student visas). (references) | |
Switzerland | Switzerland's 12 institutes of higher learning enrolled 95,700 students in the academic year of 1999-2000. The constitution guarantees freedom of worship. (references) | |
Travel | Trinidad | An accredited international school, with a predominantly U.S. curriculum for kindergarten through grade 12, opened in Port of Spain in September 1994 and moved into a new modern complex in 1999. School enrollment reached over 300 students for the 2000-2001 academic year. (references) |
Ghana | The Lincoln Community School, a U.S. Department of State-supported school, has an American-based curriculum and teachers that are all certified to teach in the U.S. The Lincoln School is planning to offer the International Baccalaureate program effective academic year 2002-2003. The others are the Ghana International School, with a British-based curriculum, and the Kokrobitey School, which has U.S. high school year-abroad programs. (references) | |
Women | Tunisia | Four women were named deputy governors during the year bringing the number to ten out of 24. Approximately 50.4 percent of university students enrolled in the 2000-2001 academic year were women. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "academic year": start of the academic year. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
academic year calendar | 4 |
academic year planner | 4 |
academic year | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "academic year"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | سنة دراسية (scholastic year, school year). (various references) | |
Chinese | 學年 . (various references) | |
Danish | studieaar, studieår. (various references) | |
Dutch | academisch jaar. (various references) | |
Finnish | lukuvuosi (school year), lukutie (school year). (various references) | |
French | année académique. (various references) | |
German | Studienjahr (session). (various references) | |
Greek | σχολικό έτος, ακαδημαϊκό έτοσ, ακαδημαϊκό έτος, ακαδημαïκό έτος. (various references) | |
Hungarian | egyetemi tanév. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tahun kuliah. (various references) | |
Italian | anno scolastico (school year, session), anno accademico (session), anno academico. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | academicay yearay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ano letivo (school year), ano académico. (various references) | |
Spanish | año escolar (school year), año académico. (various references) | |
Turkish | akademik yıl (session). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-d-e-e-i-m-r-y" | |
-4 letters: academia, academic, medicare. | |
-5 letters: academe, academy, acceder, amerced, arcadia, camerae, cardiac, cardiae, ceramic, cicadae, creamed, daymare, decayer, deciare, madeira, mediacy, midyear, racemed, racemic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 61 64 65 6D 69 63 59 65 61 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01100001 01100100 01100101 01101101 01101001 01100011 00100000 01011001 01100101 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c a d e m i c   Y e a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0061 0064 0065 006D 0069 0063 0059 0065 0061 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3569677071797569259716784 |
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