*1. Academic Year: -
The Academic
year for all Colleges affiliated to the University and Educational Institutions
and Departments maintained by the University begins on the 1st of
June each year and ends on the 31st of May next year.
2. Terms:
-
The academic year shall
consist of three terms which shall ordinarily begin and end as follows: -
First Term: June to September, closing with the Onam holidays.
Second
Term: Reopening after Onam holidays to the commencement of the Christmas
holidays.
Third
Term: January to March closing with the long vacation.
Explanation
I: Long vacation is the period between the end of the third term and the
beginning of
the first term of the next academic
year.
Explanation II: A period not exceeding 15
days shall be allowed for the Onam and Christmas holidays preceding the second
and third terms respectively. But these
holidays will not be treated as vacation.
3. Working
days: -
An academic year shall have not less than 180 working days of five hours duration each, excluding days or hours spent for examinations for all Colleges or Educational Institutions or Departments provided that for Professional Colleges, there shall be in an academic year the alternative of 960 working hours excluding hours spent for examinations in place of 180 working days.
** Provided that it shall be competent for the Syndicate to condone the shortage in the minimum number of working days or hours as the case may be, in appropriate cases’…..’
4. Holidays: -
(1) All Colleges and Educational Institutions and Departments of the University
shall be closed on the following days:
(a)
all
days declared as holidays by the Kerala Government;
(b) Such other holidays as
may be declared by the Registrar.
(2)
In
colleges affiliated to the University, the Principals may fix the working days
and holidays subject to the provisions contained in Ordinances, 2 and 3 of this
Chapter.
5 List of holidays: -
At the commencement of each academic year, the Principals of C olleges and other Educational
Institutions shall forward to the Registrar a calendar showing the list of
working days and holidays during the year and shall also report from time to
time any change in the list made by them subsequently.
* Substituted vide Amendment in University Notification No:
AcL/Ord/1204/81 dated 27-11-1981
** Proviso introduced vide Amendment No: 45