Higher education

Higher education

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

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Higher education

(Senior) Lecturer (UK)/Assistant Professor (USA, CA)

Education; Higher education

University teacher holding a rank below that of "conferentiar" and above that of "asistent" still used in some universities.

Written paper, based on independent research carried out under the supervision of a senior member of the academic staff, defended before a commission created for the first degree final examination ...

Master

Education; Higher education

Second cycle of university studies assuring thoroughgoing study in the license field studies or in a related one, the development of scientific research abilities and constituting a preparatory ...

brain drain/brain gain

Education; Higher education

The loss or gain of skilled intellectual and technical labor through the movement of such labor to more favorable geographic, economic, or professional environments.

benchmarking

Education; Higher education

A standardized method for collecting and reporting critical operational data in a way that enables relevant comparisons among the performances of different organizations or programmes, usually with a ...

teaching load

Education; Higher education

Amount of work in terms of teaching, evaluation or guidance of students, that a member of the teaching staff must carry on in accordance with the statute of the teaching staff.