schoolingschool‧ing /ˈskuːlɪŋ/ noun [uncountable] 
children in their final year of compulsory schooling (=the time during which children have to attend school by law) Al’s dad had only a few years of schooling.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Walter only had seven years of schooling.
- Both documents seek to identify the skills and understandings which their respective subjects should seek to achieve at different stages of schooling.
- So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study.
- The conference will also discuss the legalisation of the use and sale of cannabis and whether denominational schooling should be ended.
- The skills needed are mostly those which our schooling found useless and it has atrophied them without irreparably damaging them.
- They would be helped enormously if other agencies of enlightenment, particularly the schooling system, contributed to the task.
- Unfortunately, Rose did not elaborate on the nature of such mixed schooling experiences.
- We hear terrible things of your schooling system in my country, and I've met a lot of you.
- We were lucky in their schooling.
WORD SETS
academy, nounadvanced, adjectiveAdvanced level, nounA level, nounA/S level, nounassembly, nounbaccalaureate, nounblazer, nounboard, verbboarder, nounboarding school, nounbursar, nouncane, nouncaretaker, nouncarnival, nounchurch school, nounclassroom, nounclasswork, nounCollege Boards, nouncomp, nouncomprehensive school, nounconvent school, nouncorporal punishment, nouncrammer, nounday boy, nounday girl, nounday pupil, nounday school, noundemerit, noundetention, noundictation, noundinner lady, noundiploma, noundomestic science, noundormitory, noundrill, noundrill, verbdriver's education, noundunce, noundunce's cap, nounelementary, adjectiveelementary school, nounfag, nounfeeder school, nounfinishing school, nounform, nounGCE, nounGCSE, noungrade, noungrade school, noungraduate, noungraduate, verbgraduation, noungrammar school, noungrant-maintained, adjectivehead boy, nounhead girl, nounheadmaster, nounheadmistress, nounheadship, nounhead teacher, nounhigh, nounhigh school, nounhome room, nounhomework, nounhonor roll, nounhouse, nounhousemaster, nounhousemistress, nounindustrial arts, nounintermediate school, nounintramural, adjectivejunior, nounjunior high school, nounjunior school, nounlollipop lady, nounmagnet school, nounmake-up, nounmaster, nounmatron, nounmiddle school, nounMilitary Academy, nounminus, adjectivemistress, nounmixed ability, adjectivemonitor, nounmultiplication table, nounO grade, nounold boy, nounold girl, nounO level, nounparochial school, nounPE, nounperiod, nounplus, adjectivepop quiz, nounpractical, nounprefect, nounprep, nounprep, verbpreparatory school, nounpreppy, adjectiveprep school, nounprimary, adjectiveprimary school, nounprimer, nounprivate education, nounprivate school, nounproject, nounPTA, nounPTO, nounpublic school, nounpupil, nounquiz, nounRE, nounrecess, nounreport, nounreport card, nounsatchel, nounschool board, nounschoolboy, nounschoolchild, nounschoolday, nounschool district, nounschoolgirl, nounschool governor, nounschoolhouse, nounschooling, nounschoolkid, nounschool-leaver, nounschoolmaster, nounschoolmate, nounschoolmistress, nounschoolroom, nounschoolteacher, nounschool tie, nounschoolwork, nounsecondary modern, nounsecondary school, nounsemester, nounseminary, nounsenior, nounsenior high school, nounset, nounsex education, nounshop, nounshow and tell, nounsixth form, nounsixth form college, nounsophomore, nounspecial education, nounspecial school, nounspeech day, nounsports day, nounstatement, verbstream, nounstream, verbsubject, nounsubstitute teacher, nounsummer camp, nounsummer school, nounsuperintendent, nounsupply teacher, nounsyllabus, nountermly, adjectivetheme, nountruant, noununit, nounupperclassman, nounupperclasswoman, nounupper school, nounvaledictorian, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY children in their final year of compulsory schooling (=the time during which children have to attend school by law)COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES 11 years of compulsory educationCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
children in their final year of compulsory schooling (=the time during which children have to attend school by law) 11 years of compulsory education· The use of education services has become more equal during the years of compulsory schooling.· This will help pupils to develop a personal love of reading which will continue after compulsory schooling.· To compel a pupil to obey a teacher makes no sense without placing it in the context of compulsory schooling enforced legally.· This list is carried in publicity and in information given directly to pupils in their final year of compulsory schooling.· Historically, she has laid much greater stress than her continental neighbours on sophisticated external examinations at the end of compulsory schooling.
· Although the formal process of schooling began in 1911 and terminated in 1929, the critical phase was between 1917 and 1927.· Even Illich's onslaught is directed at formal schooling and not at education as such.· One of the most significant was in the increase in formal schooling, particularly of the young.· Then, when he was five or six years old, he entered a masculine world and his formal schooling began.· There was also a massive expansion in the formal schooling system, with an emphasis on building rural schools.
· But this will avail us nothing unless we get primary and secondary schooling right.
· Many of the requests are for practical, technical and vocational literature for all levels, from secondary schooling upwards.· Full mixed-ability teaching, especially if it reached into the middle and later years of secondary schooling, was comparatively rare.· But this will avail us nothing unless we get primary and secondary schooling right.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- A father explained to me that he would put one of his three sons through primary and secondary education.
- All had to prepare a Development Plan describing five years' improvement to bring about secondary education for all.
- During secondary education, the use of the spoken word increases.
- Full mixed-ability teaching, especially if it reached into the middle and later years of secondary schooling, was comparatively rare.
- If you came from a poor family the only way you could get secondary education was by gaining a scholarship.
- In practice, given the monoglot tendency in secondary education it might be difficult to recruit students with the necessary competence.
- Remember that people were then leaving school at 12 or 14 and there was no secondary education available in the town.
- These differences increased during secondary education: children from lower-status occupational groups declined from their 11 plus position relative to higher groups.
WORD FAMILYnounschoolpre-schoolschoolingadjectivepre-schoolverbschool
school education: children in their final year of compulsory schooling (=the time during which children have to attend school by law) Al’s dad had only a few years of schooling.