Students studying for a particular degree will take a series of lecture courses which run in parallel at a fixed time in each week and may last one academic term or the whole year.

攻读特定学位的学生将在每周的固定时间同时参加一系列讲座课程，可能持续一个学期或一整年。

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Schools often offer more than one programme (e.g. academic and vocational, academic four or six-year courses).

学校经常提供一个以上的选择(比如，学术和职业，4年或6年的课程安排)。

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In the second academic year, I went to University of Maryland to study and write 4 courses.

第二学年赴马里兰大学进行4门课程的学习和论文写作。

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Pencoed College, near Bridgend, has announced it is discontinuing under-subscribed agricultural courses from the end of this academic year.

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But, says Balbir Chatrik of the Unemployment Unit, an independent research body, it would be better if the colleges providing the courses abandoned their fixation with the traditional academic year and offered more flexible starting dates.

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Its nondegree executive-education courses have about 1, 000 participants this academic year, about one-third the size of its Singapore program and one-fifth the figure in Fontainebleau.

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