noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a college/university course
▪ students who fail their college courses
a school/university/college library
▪ She was studying at the college library.
a university/college degree
▪ For many jobs you need to have a university degree.
a university/college/school student
▪ How many college students are politically active?
College Boards
college professor
▪ Ted’s a college professor.
community college
electoral college
high school/college diploma
junior college
leave home/school/college etc
▪ How old were you when you left home your parents’ home?
▪ My daughter got a job after she left school.
▪ The lawsuit will be postponed until the president leaves office.
school/college/university fees
▪ She paid for her college fees by taking a part-time job as a waitress.
sixth form college
start school/college/work
▪ I started college last week.
teach school/college etcAmerican English (= teach in a school etc)
technical college
theological college
training college
▪ a teacher training college
university/college education
▪ Do you have a university education?
university/college/school admissions
university/college/school entry
▪ Japan has one of the highest rates of college and university entry in the world.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
electoral
▪ As the rule book insists, 12 weeks will elapse before the electoral college is convened.
▪ If the system had been built on popular votes rather than the electoral college, each would have pursued a different strategy.
▪ The most obvious example is the electoral college, the phantom body that stands between voters and the final outcome.
▪ This leaves 143 electoral college votes in 14 swing states undecided.
▪ Even under the electoral college rules, this achievement ought to make Gore the next president.
▪ Outdated voting mechanisms, a decentralised, idiosyncratic procedure, and the archaic electoral college have received comment.
▪ But in the electoral college, Kennedy won by a comfortable 303 votes to 219 votes for Nixon.
further
▪ Some years later, I left school for a further education college in King's Cross to study A levels.
▪ The sample will be built up from students in Further Education colleges in six locations in Britain.
▪ These courses, run by further education colleges, are all based on National Certificate Modules.
▪ The Access to Teaching scheme was extended and now includes participation by 5 Further Education colleges.
▪ Read in studio Hundreds of staff at polytechnic and further education colleges have been on strike in a protest over pay.
▪ In some areas specific further education colleges will be involved as members of the Compact partnership.
▪ This includes: A new independence for schools and further education colleges.
▪ In addition, there is conflict between Government Training Centres and further education colleges on training.
high
▪ The latest craze sweeping high schools and college dorms across the States is True Crime trading cards.
▪ Simon has given hundreds of educational presentations about rape to high school and college students and other community groups.
▪ The protesters, some of whom told how they had suffered from discrimination, were nearly all high school or college age.
▪ They can work with teachers in high schools and colleges to improve their understanding of the workplace and to support classroom activities.
▪ What courses in high school or college were the best?
▪ Before they recalculated, the high school informed colleges that Brian was second in his class, based on junior year-end records.
▪ A high school or college student could be your best bet for providing in-home care.
▪ Then he came back and attended high school and college.
junior
▪ In Quebec, this was adapted to cover late secondary, junior college, and university work.
▪ It was a great gallery for a junior college.
▪ Four defensive starters are freshmen, two others are sophomores, and another is a first-year junior college transfer.
▪ Cal has only one other kicker in junior college transfer Tim Wolleck, whom Brache beat out during fall camp.
▪ Junior Dan Nash, a 6-0 junior college transfer from Pierce College, is the setter.
▪ Since 1961, the new junior college had been making do with the evening hours at Chula Vista High School.
▪ Two rows behind the bench sits a sweet-faced junior college girl who just announced her intention to play for Oregon next year.
▪ A junior college recruit she had great hopes for is not coming along fast enough.
local
▪ He was 16 in 1959, and just entering a local arts college still run on quasi-Victorian lines.
▪ That game was held at Los Angeles Coliseum, where California law prevented local college bands from performing at a professional event.
▪ The company is also using the Merseyside visit for workshops sessions with 150 students at local schools and colleges.
▪ I got her a catalogue from the local community college, and we started talking about courses.
▪ She signed up with her local college for a typing course, and later she taught herself Braille.
▪ Update and refine your skills, preferably in adult education programs at a local college.
▪ That has improved in recent years and I congratulate the local authority and the local schools and colleges on that.
▪ And those vignettes were made by local college students working with an award-winning independent film director.
old
▪ Local educators established the non-profit university in 1964, making it one of the country's oldest private colleges.
▪ But I was too old to start college.
▪ He built a political alliance with his old college chum and fellow L. A. Democrat, Rep.
▪ Their responsibilities increased as the old college laboratories began to close.
▪ Aunt Mary gasped as we passed the old college chapel.
▪ This is my old college, where under apartheid a celebrated anti-authoritarian spirit characterised staff and students.
▪ John's, the 300-year-#old college famed for its Great Books curriculum.
technical
▪ Some were from a local technical college and were taken for short periods.
▪ He attended a technical college for engineering studies before moving to Los Angeles in 1982.
▪ For most students education in the universities and professional and technical colleges promised access to a relatively privileged position in society.
▪ The four-year program begins in the last two years of high school and continues through two years of technical or community college.
▪ About 9 out of 10 were in educational services in elementary, secondary, and technical schools and colleges and universities.
▪ Determined not to re-enter blind institution life, I headed for the nearby technical college who wouldn't have me either.
▪ Ohio has viewed the involvement of community and technical colleges in tech prep as critical.
theological
▪ It has generally been much more effective in forming the musical sensibilities of clergy than hit-and-run visits to theological colleges.
▪ In 1960 he was appointed principal of Cuddesdon theological college, near Oxford.
▪ Unfortunately, theological colleges give little specialist training in the area of new church planting or moribund church rejuvenation.
▪ The remainder train for three years at theological college.
▪ A theological college is a narrow world, frequently compared to a greenhouse.
▪ At theological college, near Oxford, the docility of most of the wives of other students irritated Anna.
▪ I had been four years at an evangelical theological college but no one had ever put it like that to me.
▪ The worst of the teaching offered in theological colleges occurs because the staff are few and the ground to be covered enormous.
■ NOUN
admission
▪ The Bakke decision permitted the use of race or national origin as a factor in college admissions.
▪ To be sure, dressing up the college admissions application often motivates the teen charity work, but so what?
▪ The students might not have done well enough to preserve the 80 average that guaranteed senior college admission.
▪ But the briefest conversation with Shahi Smart reveals some one college admissions officers might well duel over.
▪ Raise college admissions standards so that young people have an incentive to work harder and achieve more in high school.
▪ They are working on performance-based standards for college admission.
▪ Counselors say the program has pushed some success-driven students, egged on by their parents, to prepare earlier for college admissions.
▪ Even some college admissions officials worry that it is too much, too soon.
art
▪ They always encouraged varied materials where I studied at art college in Loughborough.
▪ Could City serve as an antipoverty program or a fine liberal arts college, but not both?
▪ When he made it big, in the mid-Seventies, Dury was a 35-year-old former art college lecturer in callipers.
▪ He looked rather like a sympathetic young dean at an eastern liberal arts college.
▪ One's best friend's cousin's daughter might well be at a loose end after leaving art college.
▪ A recent letter from the senate of a local liberal arts college is sitting on my desk.
▪ The setting is a Vermont liberal arts college where Sarah Matthews is dean of students.
▪ But Brandeis' status as a hybrid of an elite liberal arts college and a small research university compounds its difficulty.
basketball
▪ They told Gardner he would be out of college basketball after two seasons.
▪ The weather conditions back East postponed several college basketball games last week.
▪ Then fans could become college basketball experts, anticipating the player the Celtics might draft with their Top 3 pick.
▪ This is what big-time college basketball is all about?
▪ We have an inalienable right to play college basketball.
▪ The same commute reshaped the college basketball world.
▪ Hanks came with his children and wife Marva, a college basketball star at Iowa.
▪ His distinguishing trait is an unwavering moral compass, conspicuous by its absence in college basketball.
campuses
▪ On college campuses across the country, Chagnon's name is a dormitory word.
▪ This was particularly the case on college campuses, where the young radicals of the New Left dominated public debate.
▪ Racist behavior on college campuses is, of course, not limited to students.
▪ Gay bashing has also been widely visible on college campuses.
▪ Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., has said the tactic is a major problem on college campuses.
▪ Merrill points out that most often rape on college campuses is date rape, but that date rape is rape.
▪ Campus networks include university and college campuses, research laboratories, private companies, and educational sites such as K-12 school districts.
▪ Others might want to take a concentration of advanced-placement courses or courses on college campuses.
community
▪ The college has reached out to area high schools in other ways. Community college faculty teach courses at the high schools.
▪ She enrolled at a Colorado community college and discovered how inadequate her education had been when she tested at the remedial level.
▪ Instead, students who arrive on campus with some community college credits under their belt can graduate early.
▪ One of the most widely available resources are adult-education classes run by local school districts or community colleges.
▪ Enrollment at community colleges and other two-year learning institutions has soared.
▪ The state of Missouri will spend some $ 20 million upgrading worker skills for local companies at its community colleges.
▪ Ohio has restructured its community college system so that no resident lives more than twenty minutes away from a local institution.
course
▪ Most evening and weekend college courses are around the £100 mark and can be paid in instalments if necessary.
▪ The film was for some college course.
▪ Others will be following more conventional, academic types of college courses.
▪ At issue in the Gingrich case is a college course he taught in 1993-95 with financial support from a nonprofit foundation.
▪ Courses are also run by local authorities around the country, and private training agencies and college courses are available.
▪ She has also considered re-training and thought about enrolling for a college course.
▪ The investigation focused on a college course Gingrich taught with financial support from nonprofit foundations.
degree
▪ So she took the route of a lot of young people who have college degrees but are still floundering for a career.
▪ I was convinced that without a college degree I could never succeed.
▪ Many industrial production managers have a college degree in business administration or industrial engineering.
▪ And no more than one in twenty earned a college degree.
▪ When Helen and I had children, we were both determined that they would get their college degrees.
▪ Such things were important in the Johnson household, where all five of the children went on to receive college degrees.
▪ The path is somewhat different for those who enter without a college degree or do not go through the internship program.
▪ White men with high school diplomas earn more than Hispanic women with college degrees.
education
▪ Some years later, I left school for a further education college in King's Cross to study A levels.
▪ The sample will be built up from students in Further Education colleges in six locations in Britain.
▪ These courses, run by further education colleges, are all based on National Certificate Modules.
▪ The Access to Teaching scheme was extended and now includes participation by 5 Further Education colleges.
▪ This is sometimes possible, too, if you have attended a further or adult education college.
▪ Read in studio Hundreds of staff at polytechnic and further education colleges have been on strike in a protest over pay.
▪ Swindon College is one of the biggest further education colleges in the country.
▪ In some areas specific further education colleges will be involved as members of the Compact partnership.
football
▪ A college football association is charged with conspiring to limit the number of college games that football fans can see on television.
▪ Very much like being named No. 1 in the final Associated Press college football poll after the bowl games.
▪ Rejected for the college football team, he persisted and got in.
▪ Steve Spurrier will remain in college football until he lives down the Nebraska defeat.
▪ When he retired from football, he went to work for Turner Broadcasting as the color analyst of their college football telecasts.
▪ National college football champions, it knows.
▪ When he was at Miami, he turned some heads by proclaiming himself the best receiver in college football.
▪ That's the same way it would have ended up in all the years before college football went high-tech.
form
▪ The information will be gathered in 4 city centre retail and catering firms and 3 sixth form colleges in Swansea.
▪ The former Branksome Comprehensive and Darlington sixth form college pupil is now doing a postgraduate teaching course in Birmingham.
▪ From April next year, further education and sixth form colleges will be independent of local government control.
▪ Sixth form colleges Sixth form colleges are separate schools for 16-19-year-olds.
▪ From April 1993, all colleges of further education, tertiary and sixth form colleges will be removed from local authority control.
▪ Tertiary colleges Tertiary colleges combine the functions of a sixth form college and a further education college.
▪ Sixth form colleges offer a half-way house providing a link between school and higher education or work.
graduates
▪ There were 162 first-time deputies and the official media stressed that the percentage of college graduates was higher than before.
▪ The dispersion of earnings increased among college graduates.
▪ Paying competitive salaries means paying teachers on a par with other professions open to talented college graduates.
▪ Recruiters also are targeting community college graduates with technical skills.
▪ He worked only part-time, an elevator operator, because the country was awash in college graduates.
▪ Some companies hire college graduates as blue-collar worker supervisors and then promote them.
▪ New college graduates are beginning to experience something similar.
▪ Community college graduates had a stronger theoretical background but no hands-on skills.
library
▪ His college library had provided two books.
▪ Students have the opportunity to join the college library and are encouraged to join the Students' Union.
▪ It affected a large number of libraries, and it included college libraries as well as public libraries.
▪ The next missive was a postcard from the college library, which had acquired a book for her on inter-library loan.
▪ Her college library has interesting books, as well as the latest art magazines.
▪ On first entering your college library, you may well feel daunted by the sight of so many books and journals.
▪ Both are expensive, but both will be available in all public libraries, and in most larger school and college libraries.
▪ There were far more teacher-training college libraries than any other kind of library from which multiple examples appeared in the shops.
life
▪ This is the very stuff of college life.
▪ During their sophomore and junior years, many feel their way toward active participation in one or more facets of college life.
▪ Every opportunity to maximise the differences between school and college life was seized.
▪ The College does not want to use security guards for fear of disrupting college life.
▪ But college life is no picnic, admit Barclays, who sign up nearly a third of students.
▪ With their combination of brisk movement and weighty shadows, they richly evoke the ambience of the city and of college life.
▪ Write a memo to the Head of your Department suggesting social and/or sports events which you think would improve college life.
▪ Smoking cannabis, or being offered it has been pretty much a part of college life for decades.
professor
▪ He must have enjoyed it when he was scoring off his pupils in his days as a college professor.
▪ Doctoral degree recipients generally become college professors or work in an area of research.
▪ A survey asked 1,245 randomly selected college professors how much they gave to charity each year.
▪ He plays Sherman Klump, a college professor and genetics researcher.
▪ Perhaps this person was a college professor who assigned absurd papers-and too many of them.
▪ Susana Orozco wants to be an actress or a college professor, is the oldest of three children and loves art class.
student
▪ This in reality is only partially true, in that many college students and academics were also involved in the project.
▪ Third, many of those college students had just finished their exams and were celebrating.
▪ Case No. 11: 21 year-old college student, constitutionally Nat.
▪ Even college students, after all, eventually go to work.
▪ It was already over when I first discovered it, as a college student in the late 1970s.
▪ The company offers college students a chance to learn management of a company and earn money during their summer breaks.
▪ While a college student, Say was drafted into the U.S.
training
▪ He qualified as an electronics engineer before going to teachers' training college after which he obtained a degree in art history.
▪ Voice over A course in communication skills at the force's training college in Berkshire.
▪ Teacher training colleges which are to train teachers in these subjects will also require funds for equipment.
▪ Other recommendations concerned the expansion of the teacher training colleges.
▪ There he came to the attention of the Principal of the government teachers' training college.
▪ The first relates to the capacity of the teacher training colleges adequately to supervise their scattered students.
▪ Teacher training colleges are also listed, as are books for further reading.
▪ The Arts Centre was doubly appropriate because the building was formerly a Quaker-run training college for teachers.
tuition
▪ They had families of their own with mortgages, automobile loans and college tuition to pay.
▪ To cover college tuition for their two kids.
▪ Something to bet the college tuition on?
▪ To keep campaign pledges to make education his top priority, Clinton wants two new middle-class tax breaks for college tuition.
▪ In other words, Schott gives smart folks the air of superiority they paid all that college tuition to obtain.
▪ The current contracts are priced based on an 8 percent inflation rate for college tuition in Virginia.
▪ Or that tax breaks for college tuition should go to everyone, even the next Kennedy entering Harvard.
▪ Adding to the burden, the money available to students and their families for swelling college tuition increasingly comes with a premium.
■ VERB
attend
▪ I attend college for the first time in weeks.
▪ He attended a technical college for engineering studies before moving to Los Angeles in 1982.
▪ Perhaps they had attended the same college: the college whose colours were cerise and silver.
▪ In the 15 previous years, two residents of Kenilworth-Parkside had attended college.
▪ It is quite revolutionary that I have left home to attend college.
▪ Today even 16-year-old boys on street corners look up to those who attend college.
▪ I first witnessed the phenomenon at a huge pentecostal rally I attended as a college freshman.
▪ In essence he insists that he has a right to attend a college in his home community.
go
▪ We went back to college for lunch and changed before heading off again.
▪ All those girls you go to college with?
▪ Why didn't they go straight to agricultural college?
▪ Q: Did you go on to college?
▪ Pupil goes to college and is taught analysis.
▪ He goes away to college unimpeded, unrepentant.
▪ I went out to college to be smarter than them.
▪ Vern Friedli went to college on a drama scholarship.
graduate
▪ After graduating from college in 1938, she got a job on the San Francisco News for $ 24 a week.
▪ A lot of my friends who graduated from art college still aren't earning any money.
▪ I wanted to graduate from this college.
▪ He never had anything to do with me until I graduated from college nearly two years back now.
▪ Once they entered these programs, the percentage of students expecting to graduate and enter college or vocational training more than doubled.
▪ When I graduated from music college, I began working at piano bars, while continuing to write at the same time.
▪ About me: When I graduated from college, I came home.
leave
▪ They chose each other carefully before leaving college on the basis of previously existing friendship.
▪ Ever since leaving college, Susan has lived for publishing and worshiped Simon.
▪ It will leave St Hildas college as the last remaining women-only college in Oxford.
▪ Seventeen kids left for college the first August.
▪ Many delegates were concerned about increasing numbers of young people leaving schools and colleges before completing their courses.
▪ Your father and I are selling the house as soon as you two leave for college.
▪ One's best friend's cousin's daughter might well be at a loose end after leaving art college.
▪ On leaving college, not much had changed.
teach
▪ Just like they taught us at college.
▪ Epstein taught college courses concurrently with his work at the two newspapers.
▪ It will celebrate the successes of science teaching in schools and colleges and will share the latest ideas.
▪ In 1985 she stopped teaching college mathematics, dumped her belongings and trashed her apartment.
▪ Katherine Mansfield is held to be a great writer in the States and taught in their college classes.
▪ James was to teach at a small college in upstate New York.
▪ They teach him at school, they teach him at college, and they keep making films of him, too.
▪ With his background in teaching and politics, Davis said he might turn to teaching a college course in practical politics.
train
▪ Five years ago, she became an enthusiastic trainee in the Merseyside police training college, near Warrington.
▪ His vision of the future is centered on individuals: job training, access to college, day care and so forth.
▪ They had been trained at college to preach Western-style sermons based on abstract thinking arranged in linear form.
▪ A lecturer at a police training college published essays written by officers in training which showed them to be openly racist.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Dartmouth College
Joe College/Citizen etc
college/medical boards
▪ I have reflected on the position of elected councillors being allowed to become chairmen of college boards.
▪ Soldo and his co-developer, librarian Richard Schiff, visited many state medical boards to introduce the concept.
▪ That will provide the college boards with new perspectives and new experience.
▪ The activity of state medical boards is directly related to their independence and financial backing, Winn said.
▪ Three times during that year, Cottle was called before medical boards to assess his fitness for active service.
put sb through school/college/university
▪ I'm grateful to my wife for putting me through law school.
▪ He put himself through school with wages earned as a carpenter.
▪ He put his kids through college.
▪ I put my children through college doing it.
▪ I felt guilty thinking of my father working so hard to put me through school.
▪ Instead, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a waitress and put herself through school.
▪ Some said Pops sent his Social Security checks to his daughter to put his grandchildren through college.
▪ The boys were to be sent by their father, but he was able to put just one through school.
▪ There were stories of people putting themselves through college by working during the day and studying at night.
single-sex school/college etc
the Electoral College
▪ As the rule book insists, 12 weeks will elapse before the electoral college is convened.
▪ Even under the electoral college rules, this achievement ought to make Gore the next president.
▪ However, as it is for any poll, the Electoral College outlook is a snapshot in time, not a prediction.
▪ If the system had been built on popular votes rather than the electoral college, each would have pursued a different strategy.
▪ Instead, the candidates have to put together a jigsaw puzzle of states, bagging their votes in the electoral college.
▪ That would deliver almost half of the trade union votes - 40 percent of the electoral college.
▪ The most obvious example is the electoral college, the phantom body that stands between voters and the final outcome.
▪ The outcome, in the electoral college, is likely to be quite close.
work your way through school/college/university etc
▪ He worked his way through college, performing menial tasks in exchange for reduced tuition.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a college degree
▪ Half of the college must've been at the demonstration.
▪ He teaches at the college.
▪ Many college graduates are unable to find work in their field.
▪ My brother never went to college, but he still has a very good job.
▪ Our youngest daughter is in college now.
▪ Revell College at UC San Diego
▪ the College of Engineering
▪ The grant money is for low-income college students.
▪ Tim's at business college to learn computer accounting.
▪ We hadn't seen each other since we graduated from college.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Beyond that, McCord said she hopes to get a job and find a legitimate way to obtain a college education.
▪ He goes away to college unimpeded, unrepentant.
▪ Impotence has for some time been the leading complaint at most college psychiatric clinics.
▪ It can offer college education and job training as bonuses for new recruits.
▪ Often official syllabuses and timetables reflect the influence and expertise of infant method specialists in ministries or from colleges of education.
▪ She was not allowed into the pre-university college even though she had the necessary qualifications.
▪ The college confirmed that he came second.
▪ The Training Commission's involvement in vocational training in local authority colleges of further education provides a further example.