Students home time schedule eg when can I book holidays!

[AlpineadventuresandCowbells]

DD should be starting uni this sept and I'm wondering whether they have half terms I assume they have no time for half term ? So Xmas ,Easter and main summer ? Is that correct ? I have tried to look at some of the unis she's looking at but I also thought I'd check here thank you

I find my son has loads of time off university. His couse starts in October and he gets a few weeks of Christmas and Easter. He usually finishes in June and back again in October!

You should check with her. Like as in ask her if she will be available.

Year 1 they will still want to go away with you. Year 2 they might come home for a few weeks. Year 3 no chance

My 2 post Uni dcs still come away with us for our summer holiday…one with partner. They get rather miffed when we go away without them!

Same here. Mine are 22 & 25 - we still have a family holiday each summer.

University holidays are usually different from school holidays. Most students have breaks at Christmas, Easter and summer, but the exact dates vary by university and course. I'd wait until the university publishes its academic calendar before making any travel plans.

She won’t know yet.

It does rather depend on destination and if you are paying!

Times have changed....when I was a student, none of us ever went on holiday with our parents (most of us would rather have chopped off our right arm!). And I still think many young adults would rather do their own thing or, of course, might be working during vacations. The younger siblings just have to get used to it.

I went on holiday with my parents as a student, as did many of my friends at uni. I think most of us would have found it odd to be at home with family and siblings over the summer and for them to have all disappeared off on holiday without us. But then we didn’t have the money to be independently travelling all summer.

Difficult to say, my uni did semesters but we did have a Christmas and Easter break with a break between semesters. And quite a long summer holiday. But DP is studying medicine at Nottingham, their academic year is roughly the same as tax years, and they don't have a summer break (he's currently in the two week summer break that they get), they study for most of the year.

I guess it must just depend on preference. I was very happy to stay home as a teenager as I found it so cringe being with my parents, but I did go away with them while I was studying, I'd grown up a bit by then. I was at uni 96-99.

My university had 'reading week' at half term which was basically a week off, that was a full time degree course