Summer student

[Shenfeng]

Hey,

does anyone of the U.S. board members know what a "summer student" is?
The student here is an university student.

Does it mean that such a student takes part in certain classes over the summer vacation or that he simply works for some faculty over that period of time?

Thanks.

 

[bhaisahab]

Hey,

does anyone of the U.S. board members know what a "summer student" is?
The student here is a university student.

Does it mean that such a student takes part in certain classes over the summer vacation or that he simply works for some faculty over that period of time?

Thanks.

I don't know the term, but it could relate to summer schools. Have a look at this link: University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education - Summer Schools

 

[Shenfeng]

Yes, summer school was my first thought, too. Maybe it is.

However, in the book I'm reading, the author (an American) writes the following:


I discovered our accounting software to be a patchwork of programs written by long-departed summer students.


Come to think of it, it might have been a summer school project to write parts of the accounting software.

Well, at this point I think it is most reasonable to assume that a summer student is just a student who is attending summer school.

By the way, are they also called 'summer students' in the UK?

 

[bhaisahab]

Yes, summer school was my first thought, too. Maybe it is.

However, in the book I'm reading, the author (an American) writes the following:


I discovered our accounting software to be a patchwork of programs written by long-departed summer students.


Come to think of it, it might have been a summer school project to write parts of the accounting software.

Well, at this point I think it is most reasonable to assume that a summer student is just a student who is attending summer school.

By the way, are they also called 'summer students' in the UK?

As I said I don't know the term, but it seems logical that they could also be called "summer students" in the UK.

 

[Tdol]

We have summer courses, so the term is logical.