单词 | higher education |
释义 | > as lemmashigher education higher education n. education beyond school, esp. to degree level at a university or similar educational establishment. ΘΚΠ society > education > [noun] > systematic education > higher education higher learning1826 higher education1834 1741 Selecta Historica 141 To say that the softness of their [sc. women's] nature makes them incapable of a higher education..is doing them an unpardonable unjustice.] 1834 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 215 The oldest word for an unexclusive institution of higher education, was studium, and studium generale—terms employed in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and retained in those which followed. 1866 E. Davies (title) The higher education of women. 1884 C. Bird Higher Educ. in Germany & Eng. i. 5 Few [sc. people] realise to what an extent we are surpassed by Germany..as regards the liberal provision made for higher education. 1931 (title) Report of the Commission on Christian Higher Education in India. 1961 Sunday Times 26 Feb. 12/6 By 1970 there could be 140,000 children applying for the 70,000 places there will then be in higher education. 2011 Daily Tel. 14 July 2/5 An English ‘Ivy League’ consisting of just a handful of leading universities could develop as a result of government plans to shake up higher education, figures suggest. < as lemmas |
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