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Higher education
Post-secondary education at universities, academies, colleges, and institutes of technology etc.
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carnegie unit
Education; Higher education
Time-based, quantitative measure assigned to high school courses. One unit generally consists of one subject studied one 50-minute period per day, 5 times per week, for one 36-week academic year ...
exchange scholar
Education; Higher education
Individual attending a US institution by special agreement with a foreign institution. A visting scholar does not-matriculate which means that he or she is not engaged in a degree program. To ...
assistantship
Education; Higher education
Award granted to graduate students and which consists of tuition remission and a stipend for part-time teaching or research. (see also graduate assistant; research assistant; teaching assistant)
high school
Education; Higher education
Secondary School (grades 7-12 or 9-12). In the 6+6 scheme, the first three years (grades 7-9) are known as 'junior high school' and the final three years (10-12) as 'senior high school'.
lower-division
Education; Higher education
First two years of a bachelor's degree program which consists mainly of courses at the introductory and elementary levels.
