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Academic Year Dates

Semester Dates

If you are looking for basic semester dates, follow this link for Semester dates up to 2011/2012.  To view the Structure of the Academic Year, including week numbering for timetable purposes, click on the relevant year below:

Almanac 

The Almanac is an academic year calendar of key University dates, providing semester dates as well as meetings of key governance and management committees including the Strategic Leadership Team, Council and Senate. A separate listing of special University events is available here.

The Almanac 2009/10 (last updated 18 February 2010) is available in several different formats:

1. Almanac Outlook Calendar

From their campus desktop Microsoft Outlook University staff can open other users’ folders for which they have appropriate permissions. All staff have “Reviewer” access to the Calendar folder of the user “Almanac” that appears in the global address list. Download the Instructions (PDF) to find out how to access the public Almanac and copy or import individual events into your own Outlook Calendar.   NEW: This format now includes 2010/11 semester dates.

2. Almanac Diary 2009/10

If you wish to have a hard copy of Almanac dates in chronological order, the  Almanac Diary is ideal for printing (PDF file, Acrobat Reader is required to open this file).

3. Almanac Year Planner 2009/2010

This one-page planner (available here as a PDF file) incorporates Almanac dates in summary format.

4. Microsoft Access database files

These files can be used for importing multiple Almanac dates into personal Microsoft Outlook Calendars. From your campus desktop Microsoft Outlook you can download a file to import Almanac dates (either all academic year dates and Almanac meetings or just the key semester dates/holidays) into your Outlook Calendar. The files available for download and importing are complete_almanac_2009-10 and semester_dates_2009-10. Read the Instructions for viewing the University Almanac Outlook Calendar and importing Almanac Events to another Calendar (PDF).

NEW: Now available for download in this format: Semester dates 2010-11.

Contacts

  • Contact ITS Service Desk (ext 52444) for help with downloading or using electronic versions of the Almanac.
  • Email Almanac to make comments on or suggest additions to the Almanac. Feedback on the usefulness and ease-of-use of the Almanac formats would be particularly appreciated.

Training

If you have little or no experience of Microsoft Outlook Calendar and wish to know more you can book yourself on a relevant IT course through the ITS website: www.isd.salford.ac.uk/training/courses/ict/#4