COVENANT UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF THE VICE CHANCELLOR ACADEMIC CALENDAR FOR 2012/2013 SESSION ALPHA SEMESTER Monday, 6 August,

2012 Monday, 3 Setember, 2012 Monday, 3 September - 3 Monday, December, 2012 Monday, 3 September, 2012 Monday, 3 September, 2012 Advertisement for 2012/2013 PG Admission All Faculty/Staff Resumption from Holiday/Opening Assembly Lectures Begin (Returning PG Students) Resumption by Old PG Students for 2012/2013 Session Registration for 2012/2013 Session (Returning PG Students)
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Wednesday, 5 September, 2012 Thursday, 6 September, 2012 Sunday, 16 September, 2012 Sunday, 16 September, 2012 Monday 17 - Wednesday 19 September, 2012

Statutory Meeting of Committee of SPS SENATE Resumption: Returning Students (Undergraduate)/ Online Registration Begins Welcome Assembly Orientation: Returning Students (Evening)

Monday17 - Friday 21 September, 2012 Make-up Examination Wednesday, 19 September, 2012 Thursday 20 September, 2012 Thursday, 20 September, 2012 Lectures Begin (Returning Students) Online Coursework Registration Ends (Returning Students) Resumption and Registration: Fresh Students
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Thursday 20 Monday 24 September, Online Coursework Registration (Fresh Students) 2012 Thursday 20 Saturday 22 September, Orientation/Induction (Fresh Students) Evenings and 2012 Saturday Friday, 21 September, 2012 Friday, 21 September, 2012 General Friday Faculty/Staff Fellowship College Orientation (4-5pm); School Orientation (5-6pm); Departmental Orientation (6-7pm) CLR Orientation; CDS Students (9-11am); CST Students (11:30 - 1.30pm) Lectures Begin (Fresh Students) Late Registration with Penalty Faculty Fellowship (Schools)
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Saturday, 22 September 2012 Monday, 24 September, 2012 Monday 24 Sept Friday 28 September, 2012 Friday 28 September 2012

Monday 24 September Friday 28 September, 2012 Saturday, 29 September, 2012 Thursday, 27 September 2012 Thursday, 27 September 2012 Monday, 1 October, 2012

SIWES Report Defence Students' Monthly Environmental Sanitation INDEPENDENCE PARLEY (Lecture Free) SENATE INDEPENDENCE DAY

Tuesday 2 - Thursday 4 October, 2012 Library Orientation for Faculty Wednesday, 3 October, 2012 Thursday, 4 October, 2012 Thursday, 4 October, 2012 Friday, 5 October, 2012 Statutory Meeting of Committee of SPS Mentoring Chat Series SENATE Departmental/Unit Friday Faculty Fellowship
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Tuesday 9 Oct Saturday 13 October, 2012 Friday, 12 October, 2012 Friday, 19 October, 2012 Tuesday 17 - Sunday 21 October 2012 Sunday, 21 October, 2012 Friday, 26 October, 2012 Saturday, 27 October, 2012 Saturday, 27 October, 2012 Friday, 2 November, 2012

Test (1) General Friday Faculty/Staff Fellowship Faculty Fellowship (Schools) 10th Founders' Week (Lecture Free) FOUNDERS DAY (Thanksgiving Service @ Faith Tabernacle) General Friday Faculty/Staff Fellowship Community Impact Outreach in Commemoration of the Founders' Day Students' Monthly Environmental Sanitation Departmental/Unit Friday Faculty Fellowship
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Friday 2 - Saturday 3 November, 2012 Wednesday, 7 November, 2012 Friday, 9 November, 2012 Thursday, 15 November, 2012 Friday, 16 November, 2012 Friday 16 - 17 Saturday November, 2012 Saturday, 17 November, 2012 Monday 19 - Thursday 22 November, 2012 Friday, 23 November, 2012

Spiritual Emphasis Statutory Meeting of SPS General Friday Faculty Fellowship Public Lecture Friday Faculty Fellowship (Schools) Inauguration of New Faculty/Orientation of Staff COMMUNITY IMPACT (7.00am 1.00pm) Student Council Trade Fair General Friday Faculty/Staff Fellowship

Wednesday 21 - Saturday 24 November, 2012 Saturday, 24 November, 2012

National Association of Computer Science Students' Week (NACOSS) Outreach Projects to partner with Schools within the Community

Monday 26- Friday, 30 November, 2012 ARCHI-RETREAT Thursday, 29 November 2012 Saturday, 24 November, 2012 Monday, 26 November - Friday 30 November, 2012 Friday, 30 November, 2012 Saturday, 1 December, 2012 SENATE Students' Monthly Environmental Sanitation Mid Semester Test MATRICULATION (PG/Undergraduate) Christmas Break (Non-Graduating Students Vacate Campus & PG Students)

Saturday, 1 December, 2012 Sunday, Mid Semester Break 6 January, 2013 Monday, 3 December, 2012 TUESDAY 4 SATURDAY 8, DECEMBER, 2012 Monday, 10 December, 2012 End of Lectures for Second Semester PG Students SHILOH WEEK Second Semester Examinations (PG Students) Begin

Monday 10 - Thursday 20 December, Lecture Continues for Final Year Students 2012 Thursday, 13 December, 2012 Friday, 14 December, 2012 Friday, 21 December, 2012 SENATE General Friday Faculty Fellowship Final Year Students Vacate for Christmas

Friday, 21 December, 2012 Thursday, 3 January, 2013 January 3 - April 24, 2013 Sunday, 6 January, 2013 Monday 7, January, 2013 Wednesday, 9 January, 2013 Thursday, 10 January, 2013 Wednesday, 16 January, 2013 Friday, 18 January, 2013

Second Semester Examinations (PG Students) End Third Semester Registration (PG Students) Begins Research Project PG Resumption(All Students & PG Students) Lecture begins (Graduating and Non-Graduating Students) Statutory Meeting of Committee of SPS Third Semester Registration (PG Students) Ends Mentoring Chat Series Friday Faculty Fellowship (Schools)

Monday 21 - Friday 25 January, 2013 Monday 28 January, - Friday, 1 February, 2013

Upload of Final Year Lecture Attendance and Evaluation Revision for Final Year Students (Graduating Class)

Monday 4 - Saturday 16 Febuary, 2013 Alpha Semester Examinations (Graduating Students) Thursday, 31 January, 2013 Sunday 17 - Sunday 24, February, 2013 Monday 4 - Friday 8, February, 2013 Monday 11 - 15 February, 2013 SENATE Alpha Semester Break (Graduating Students) Upload of Lecture Attendance and Evaluation (NonGraduating) Revision for Non-Graduating Students

Friday 22 February - Tuesday 5 March, Marking of Final Year Examination Scripts/Upload of 2013 Results

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Monday 18 February - Saturday 2 March, 2013 Sunday 3 - Sunday 10, March, 2013 Monday 4 - Saturday 16, March, 2013

Examination for Non-Graduating Students Alpha Semester Break for Non-Graduating Students Marking of Non-GraduatingExamination Scripts/Upload of Results

Consideration of Final Year Students Results Monday, 11 March, 2013 Tuesday, 12 March, 2013 Wednesday, 13 March, 2013 Friday, 15 March, 2013 Thursday, 28 March, 2013 Departmental Examination Board School Examination Board College Examination Board Business Committee of Senate Senate: Alpha Semester Results for Graduating Students
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Consideration of Results (Non-Graduating Students) Monday, 18 March, 2013 Tuesday, 19 March, 2013 Wednesday, 20 March, 2013 Thursday, 21 March, 2013 Thursday, 28 March, 2013 Departmental Examination Board School Examination Board College Examination Board Business Committee of Senate Senate: Alpha Semester Results for Non-Graduating Students

May 2013 May/June 2013

PG Defence of Dissertation/ Submission of Results Approval of Results ( SPS Committee/Senate)

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COVENANT UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF THE VICE CHANCELLOR ACADEMIC CALENDAR FOR 2012/2013 SESSION

OMEGA SEMESTER Sunday, 24 February, 2013 Monday, 25 February, 2013 Monday, 25 February, 2013 Monday, 25 - Tuesday 26, February, 2013 Resumption (Graduating Students) Lectures Begin Interaction with Students on Final Year Projects Begins Online Registration

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Tuesday 26 February- Friday 1 March, Make-Up Examination 2013 Wednesday, 6 March, 2013 Friday, 8 March, 2013 Sunday, 10 March, 2013 Monday, 11 - Tuesday, 12 March, 2013 Wednesday, 13 March, 2013 Friday, 15 March, 2013 Statutory Meeting of Committee of SPS Departmental Friday Faculty Fellowship Resumption (Non-Graduating Students) Online Registration Mentoring Chat Series School Friday Faculty Fellowship

Monday, 18 Friday 22, March 2013 Test (1) (Graduating Students) Thursday, 21 March, 2013 Saturday, 23 March 2012 INAUGURAL LECTURE COMMUNITY IMPACT
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Thursday, 28 March 2013 Friday, 29 March, 2013 Monday, 1 Friday 5 April 2013 Saturday, 30 March, 2013 Sunday, 31 March, 2013

SENATE Good Friday Test (1) (Non-Graduating Students) Students' Monthly Environmental Sanitation Easter Sunday

Tuesday 9 Friday, 12 April 2013 Wednesday, 3 April, 2013

CDS WEEK/OPEN DAY/COLLEGE FAIR (Excursion/Campus Fair/Seminar Statutory Meeting of Committee of SPS

Friday, 5 April Friday, 28 June 2013 SALE OF ADMISSION FORMS Friday, 5 - Saturday, 6 April, 2013 Spiritual Emphasis (Evenings)

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Friday, 5 April, 2013 Tuesday, 9 April, 2013 Friday, 12 April, 2013 Saturday, 13 April 2013 Tuesday 16 Friday, 19 April, 2013 Tuesday,16 - Thurs. 18 April, 2013 Tuesday,16 - Thurs. 18 April, 2013 Thursday, 18 April 2013 Friday 19 April, 2013

Submission of Students Council Nominees Career Fair Day Friday Faculty Fellowship COMMUNITY IMPACT (7.00am 1.00pm) CST WEEK/OPEN DAY/COLLEGE FAIR (Excursion/Campus Fair/Seminar) International Workshop on Renewable Energy IBS 2013 PUBLIC LECTURE Change of Guards (Receiving New Student Council Representatives)

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Friday 19 April, 2013 Friday 19 - Saturday, 20 April, 2013 Monday 22 Friday, 26 April 2013 Thursday, 25 April 2013 Friday, 26 April, 2013 Saturday, 27 April, 2013 Wednesday, 1 May, 2013 Friday, 3 May, 2013 Wednesday, 8 May, 2013 Monday 6 Saturday 11, May 2013

School Friday Faculty Fellowship Inauguration of New Faculty/Orientation of Staff Mid-Semester Test (Graduating Students) SENATE Friday Faculty Fellowship Students' Monthly Environmental Sanitation MAY DAY - LECTURE FREE DAY Departmental Friday Faculty Fellowship Statutory Meeting of Committee of SPS FINAL YEAR PROJECT DEFENCE

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Monday, 6 Friday, 10 May 2013 Friday, 10 May, 2013 Monday, 29 April Friday, 3 May 2013 Monday, 13 May Friday, 24 May 2013 Wednesday, 15 May, 2013 Thursday, 16 May, 2013 Monday, 20 May Friday, 24 May 2013 Friday, 24 May 2013 Saturday, 25 May, 2013

Mid-Semester (Non-Graduating Students) Friday Faculty Fellowship Revision Week (Graduating Students)/Upload of Final Lecture Attendance Omega Semester Examination (Final Year Students) Mentoring Chat Series PUBLIC LECTURE Revision Week (Non-Graduating Students)/Upload of Lecture Attendance General Friday Faculty Fellowship Students' Monthly Environmental Sanitation
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Monday, 27 May Friday, 14 June, 2013 Monday, 24 - Saturday, 29 June 2013 Monday, 27 May - Friday 3 June, 2013

Omega Semester Examination (Non-Graduating Students) Omega Semester Examination - University Wide Courses (Non-Graduating Students) Submission of Projects to the Library (Bindery Section)

Mon. 27 May - Sunday 2 June, 2013 Final Year Students Vacate Campus Tuesday, 29 May, 2013 Thursday, 30 May, 2013 Wednesday, 5 June, 2013 DEMOCRACY DAY SENATE Statutory Meeting of Committee of SPS

Monday 10 Saturday, 22 June, 2013 CUSAS Saturday, 15 June 2013 COMMUNITY IMPACT FOR NON-GRADUATING CLASS
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Monday, 10 - Wednesday, 26 June, 2013 Thursday, 27 June, 2013

Spiritual Emphasis/ICT Certification Exams & University Wide Courses Examinations SENATE

Consideration of Results (Graduating Class) Thursday 6 June, 2013 Monday, 10 June 2013 Wednesday, 12 June 2013 Thursday, 13 June 2013 Friday, 14 June 2013 Departmental Examination Board Meeting School Examination Board Meeting College Examination Board Senate Business Committee Senate for Examinations

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Saturday, 15 - Wednesday, 19 June, Correction of Results 2013 Friday, 21 June 2013 Wednesday, 26 - Friday, 28 June, 2013 Wednesday, 26 June, 2013 Results leave for the Press COMMENCEMENT CEREMONIES Convocation Opening Assembly/World Press Conference/Special Convocation Service & Concert Commencement Lecture/Hooding Ceremony/ Convocation Rehearsal CONVOCATION CEREMONY Return of Academic Gowns Architecture Students' Induction

Thursday, 27 June, 2013 Friday, 28 June, 2013 Saturday, 29 June, 2013 Saturday, 29 June, 2013

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Sunday, 30 June, 2013 Monday, 1 July, 2013 Wednesday, 3 - Friday, 5 July, 2013 Wednesday, 3 July, 2013 Friday, 5 July, 2013 Tuesday, 9 July, 2013 Wednesday, 10 July, 2013 Thursday, 11 July, 2012 Friday, 12 July, 2013 Friday, 12 July, 2013

CONVOCATION THANKSGIVING SERVICE Students Vacate Campus Consideration of Lower Level Results Departmental Examination Board Meeting School Examination Board Meeting College Examination Board Senate Business Committee Senate for Examinations Submission of End of Session Report from Colleges, Schools and Departments/Units Distribution of Bound Projects to Departments
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Friday, 12 July, 2013 Friday, 12 July, 2013 July/August 2013 July/August 2013

Friday Faculty Fellowship End of Omega Semester SIWES Supervision LIFELONG LEARNING PROGAMME

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