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09:44 Mar 9, 2015 

It's been interesting to see people's views on this. Can I say, though, that as someone who was until very recently a university lecturer set up a new Master's programme at a UK university, when I was doing the briefing documents to get the programme approved and the publicity notes for the new programme, 'intake' was the recommended normative term. Indeed, it was also the term used in all of the other documents I read, some from other institutions, before designing mine. My point is - yes the term 'standard idiom' may sound a bit absolute and prescriptive, but based on recent experience in this area, I can say with some confidence that this is what readers will expect to see.

14:27 Mar 8, 2015 

I gave my reasons in my grading comment. I am not sure it is correct, but in our business, the time comes when you have to "*** or get off the pot"!

13:11 Mar 8, 2015 

Of course, you can do what you want; it’s kind of our prerogative/role – the same as with a cook the prerogative is to be able to taste the food before it is ready to be served, as I was taught in childhood – to be the ones deciding on which word to use. What Misha says is true enough, but here too you have to allow for a mood state, and therefore a certain approach to words. I completely agree with Misha in general, but in this case I have to note: ‘intake’ to me sounds medical (I do a lot of Life Sciences translations); it sounds like an “intake interview” – I can’t imagine it being said about an “admission interview”, although “admission “ can stand for “intake”. I mentioned it earlier in DB.
In any case, did you notice that the link Adam gave is for nursing? Maybe they used it because it is easily associated?

13:09 Mar 8, 2015 

I was first going to ask you how you want to phrase the sentence with this word, but then I ran it in quotes "fourth intake" in google. Strangely enough, I come up with an 'overwhelming' number of pages for this https://www.google.nl/search?q="fourth intake "&start=190 )., Most of these sources, if you look closely enough, are not British, nor American. Yes, there is a sprinkling of some Am. and some Br., but you have to allow for bad style, mistranslations, non-native writing, even native speakers’ mistakes. About 5% of pages coming up with “fourth intake” do indeed originate in .us or .uk; take a look at the above link.

21:18 Mar 7, 2015 

According to my links below these 'trainees' (I can't call them 'students' as, probably, most of them are MBAs) are just those people who 'managed' to become 'enrolled' at the FOURTH year of existence of this 'University' (est. 2012).

21:02 Mar 7, 2015 

Maybe these students/trainees are better called "participants in the fourth year program" ? That would be literal, but quite acceptable.

20:09 Mar 7, 2015 

Whatever the real value of this "intake" thing, I beg to differ. It is not a standard idiom, even if there does exist such a thing as a standard idiom "within a field". At best, it is a clumsy piece of professional jargon and should be treated as such. It's a poor substitute indeed for good writing.

13:04 Mar 7, 2015 

I.e. it is for the fourth time in its history (since 2012) that this University has enrolled a new group of people for training that expands their skills and capabilities.

See

http://sberbank-university.ru/about.html

http://sberbank-university.ru/publication-7.html

12:44 Mar 7, 2015 

and for the same reason ‘intake’, too, it sounds a)too medical b)too abstract of a concept (as in delivery).
You can also consider ‘the entire student/enrollment body (of the fourth year)

11:36 Mar 7, 2015 

is what the translator (non-native English speaker) chose, but that has a strong aroma of freshly baked cookies. Etymology: 1400-50; late Middle English bache, akin to bacan to bake; compare Old English gebæc, German Gebäck batch. Its meaning is extended metaphorically (informally), as in "batch processing" software. But in my context, it sounds distinctly humorous, as if the students are going to be cooked. See OED: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...