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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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