MMU : no more short semester?

No more short trimester. Beginning from 0910 session, only long trimester will be applied. Long trimester means, the whole year only consist of long trimesters, the 14 weeks. Its still 14 weeks per trimester. 14 weeks x 2 long trimesters = 28 weeks = 7 months. About 3 1/2 month left after deducting the trimester holidays / breaks. So what happend to the short trimester and the remaining months?

What will happend is, the short trimester will be converted into long trimster as well. 14 weeks. So, in total, 3 long trimesters per year. 14 weeks each. 14 weeks x 3 = 42 weeks. A year consist of 52 weeks, does the remaining 10 weeks for holiday be divided accordingly to 3 trimesters ?
Well, not exactly. 1 week will be used for Final Examination (no longer 2 weeks for Final Examination as the current practice). So 1 week x 3 trimesters. Left remaining 7 weeks.

Trimester 1, will be having 1 week mid-trimester break, 1 week end trimester holiday.

Trimester 2, will be having 1 week mid-trimester break, 1 week end trimester holiday.

Trimester 3, will be having 1 week mid-trimester break, 2 weeks end trimester holiday.

Done. 52 weeks per year. Huh...... very short holidays in between the trimesters.
When does the implementation begin ? Again, beginnning from 2009 - 2010 session. Luckily, its not meant for faculties. Its only for FOSEE students.

Thus, sometime, the upcoming FOSEE students will be having holiday, while others are having classes. It might be true for vice versa as well. Why does this happend ? According to the higher management, this is a request by MQA since those days, but the MMU never follow before. Nevertheless, the starting of trimester 1, for the entire campus, each year is the same. For the other trimesters maybe not concurrent.
Students Clubs' & Societies' point of view: Quite hard to integrate later. See how it works soon.

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