Lent term

Lent term

Lent term is the name of the spring Academic term at the following British universities:
*University of Cambridge
*LSE
*Exeter University
*University of Lancaster
*University of Wales, Lampeter

and was the name of the autumn term at the University of Sydney before it swapped over to the two semester system in 1989.

The term runs from January to March and thus corresponds to Hilary term at Oxford and Epiphany term at Durham. At Sydney, it ran from March to May (10th to 22nd Mondays of the year).

ee also

*Michaelmas term
*Epiphany term
*Hilary term
*Trinity term
*Easter term

References

* [http://calendararchive.usyd.edu.au/Calendar/ University of Sydney, Calendar Archive]


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