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Higher education

Post-secondary education at universities, academies, colleges, and institutes of technology etc.

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Higher education

Upper-division

Education; Higher education

The part of the curriculum which is generally taught beyond the second year of a bachelor's degree programme and which constitutes its more advanced component.

Master's degree

Education; Higher education

A post-baccalaureate degree usually earned after one or two years of course work.

Exemption

Education; Higher education

The practise of exempting a student from a requirement. For example, if a college required all students to take freshman English, but on the basis of evidence of outstanding prior achievement (such ...

Remedial education

Education; Higher education

Instruction designed to bring students up to required basic skills or knowledge levels to allow them to attend programmes which they would otherwise have been unable to follow.

Multiple-choice examination

Education; Higher education

An objective examination giving students several choices of answers to a question of which one is correct.

Load

Education; Higher education

An informal term used by students and faculty to refer to the number of credits they are studying or teaching, respectively.

Semester system

Education; Higher education

The academic year is divided into two 15-week semesters.

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