Schools close for summer holiday this week
Article by July 7, 2021
Public schools will close for summer recess tomorrow, Thursday, July 8, for students, and Friday, July 9, for teachers. Ten weeks have been allotted for the holiday period.
The new academic year 2021-2022 is scheduled to begin with a planning session for teachers from Monday, September 13, to Friday, September 17.
Students will return to the classroom on Monday, September 20.
According to the Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training, there will be 38 weeks of instruction for the upcoming school year.
Term 1 (Michaelmas Term) will run for 13 weeks, with a mid-term break from Thursday, November 4, to Friday, November 5. The term will end for students on Thursday, December 16, and for teachers on Friday, December 17.
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17 min read The author spent less than three years at St Columbaâs College in Dublin, but they had a huge influence on his life and work
William Trevor, whose birthday it would have been today, died in November 2016, aged 88. He entered St Columbaâs College, Dublin under his real name, Trevor William Cox, in January 1944 and left in July 1946. Those mere two and a half years out of the 88 were, however, disproportionately important in the shaping of his artistic imagination.
Schools can sometimes, for their own PR purposes, claim more influence than they should on the achievements of their famous alumni, but in this case the evidence is plentiful, and it is of course in the words of William Trevor himself.
13 lessons from our Journalist Fellows on the future of journalism worldwide
On the first global journalism seminar of this term, our Fellows shared what they ve learned about their profession during their time in Oxford
Our Journalist Fellows share their experiences at an event which was part of our global journalism seminar series.
Wednesday 28 April 2021
In January 2021, a truly determined group of journalists from Kyrgyzstan, India, Hungary, Norway, Finland, Indonesia, Pakistan, Kenya, Nicaragua, and Brazil moved to Oxford to join the journalism fellowship programme.
With no chance of meeting in person, the fellows forged ahead with an itinerary of online seminars and social meetings. “We carried on with the fellowship online despite lockdown, speaking about the future of journalism and the challenges facing the news industry,” said Meera Selva, Director of the Journalism Fellowship. “It is vital to have these conversations – now, more than ever.”
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