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higher education

noun

  1. education beyond high school, specifically that provided by colleges and graduate schools, and professional schools.


higher education

noun

  1. education and training at colleges, universities, polytechnics, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of higher education1

First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences

Harvard calls itself “the oldest institution of higher education in the United States.”

Emory is also one of dozens of higher education institutions with open Title IX sexual violence investigations.

The politicization of public higher education in Texas is hardly new.

“Economic diversity,” by contrast, brings economic difference into higher education in order to liquidate the difference.

“Economic diversity” has entered the language as a standard way to talk about inequality in higher education.

It has continued to be an outstanding institution for higher education in the United States.

These four great centres of learning constitute the system of Higher Education in Scotland.

She had not liked this quotation from Mrs. Owen's utterances on this vexed question of higher education.

Similar arguments are frequently urged against the desire to raise the standard and widen the avenues of the "higher education."

Who's this rival who has made the higher education seem necessary for Morton Bassett's daughter?

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