Spain 2014/15 - academic year

Beginning of the academic year

Type of programme: University tertiary education:

Between the first and the third week of September 2014.

Type of programme: non-university tertiary education:

Between 1 and 3 September 2014

Teaching activity and holidays of the academic year

Type of programme: University tertiary education

Beginning of the teaching activity:
Throughout the month of September (The beginning of the teaching activity in third-cycle education (to gain a PhD) generally occurs between the second week of October and the first week of November.)

Teaching activity:
Between the beginning of the teaching activity and Christmas holidays

Christmas Holidays:
About 18 days between 20 December 2014 and 7 January 2015

Teaching activity:
Between the end of Christmas holidays and the start of the examinations

Teaching activity:
Between the end of January/February examinations and Easter

Holidays Easter Holidays:
About 10 days between the fourth week of March and the first of April 2015

Teaching activity:
Between the end of Easter holidays and June examinations

Summer Holidays:
Between the end of June/July examinations and the end of August

Type of programme: non-university tertiary education:

Beginning of the teaching activity:

Between mid-September and the beginning of October

Teaching activity:

From the beginning of the teaching activity to June

Holidays  / Christmas:

2 weeks between 22 December 2014 and 7 January 2015.

Easter: About 10 days between the third week of March and first week of April 2015.

Summer: 13/16 weeks between mid-June and beginning/mid-September or the beginning of October.

Public holidays: 12 (some of them common throughout the whole country and some specific of the different Autonomous Communities)

Examinations of the academic year

Type of programme: University tertiary education

Examinations:
2 or 3 weeks between beginning of January and mid-February (no teaching activity)
About 1 month between May and mid-July depending on whether the university has its extraordinary examinations in July or in September (no teaching activity)

Extraordinary examinations:
3 weeks between the second week of June and the second week of July (in some universities the first two weeks of September 2015)

Type of programme: non-university tertiary education:

There are generally three periods of examinations: before Christmas holidays, before Easter holidays and before summer holidays. Schools are free to fix examination dates within those periods.

End of the academic year

Type of programme: University tertiary education

One day before the beginning of the 2015/16 academic year

Type of programme: non-university tertiary education:

Between the second and third week of June