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higher education
noun
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▪ He said the increase might force cuts in prisons and higher education and prevent any tax cut this year.
▪ I did make my escape from Roundhay - by a route taken by many of my contemporaries: higher education.
▪ In a higher education curriculum, second-handedness is eschewed.
▪ President Clinton is asking Congress to increase federal aid to higher education by more than 50 percent by the year 2002.
▪ The early 1960s were a hopeful time, and it was then that California devised its system of higher education.
▪ There were constituencies that had no interest in the civil rights issues, but great interest in expanded access to higher education.
▪ While she affirmed learning across social classes, Jane Addams was a critic of higher education.
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higher education

n. university education or higher.

WordNet
higher education

n. education provided by a college or university

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Higher education

Higher education, post-secondary education, or third level education is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after secondary education. Often delivered at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology, higher education is also available through certain college-level institutions, including vocational schools, trade schools, and other career colleges that award academic degrees or professional certifications. Tertiary education at non-degree level is sometimes referred to as further education or continuing education as distinct from higher education.

The right of access to higher education is mentioned in a number of international human rights instruments. The UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966 declares, in Article 13, that "higher education shall be made equally accessible to all, on the basis of capacity, by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education". In Europe, Article 2 of the First Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights, adopted in 1950, obliges all signatory parties to guarantee the right to education.

In the days when few pupils progressed beyond primary education, the term "higher education" was often used to refer to secondary education, which can create some confusion.

Higher Education (novel)

Higher Education is a 1996 science fiction novel by Charles Sheffield and Jerry Pournelle. The book is part of the Jupiter series and was published through Tor Books.

Higher Education (journal)

Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering educational developments throughout the world in universities, polytechnics, colleges, and vocational and educational institutions. The journal reports on developments in both public and private higher education sectors. It is published by Springer and has a 2008 impact factor of 0.600.

Usage examples of "higher education".

The young people who now proposed to devote themselves to intellectual studies no longer took the term to mean attending a university and taking a nibble of this or that from the dainties offered by celebrated and loquacious professors who without authority offered them the crumbs of what had once been higher education.

There are many humans who, through lack of intelligence or temperament, simply cannot profit from higher education or more elaborate training.