New rules on stating the academic year

Break out the town crier!

Hear ye, hear ye, thou shalt cease and desist the use of 2018/19 as a style to denote the academic year from September 2018 to July 2019. It seems it has caused some confusion with someone understanding 2018/19 to mean 2018 AND 2019.

From this day forth thou shalt only use 2018–19, using the longer en dash – rather than a shorter hyphen -; and preferably (but not obligatory) in combination with the term ‘academic year’. So these are all good:

• the academic year 2018–19
• the 2018–19 academic year
• the academic year starting in 2018
• for students starting their studies in 2018.

Hear ye, hear ye, so ends the proclamation on this day.