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higher education

NOUN
college and thereon
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If more market correction is to come, that tells us something important—about higher education and about other education sectors we have built to avoid correction altogether.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

“Today, we find ourselves past the higher education committee and in appropriations once again.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

The market for higher education is working on all three counts—but slowly.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

The number of people on Sheppey who have a higher education level qualification, 16.8%, is half the England average.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

In the late 1960s nonwhite Americans clamored for access to higher education, and I became a principal beneficiary of the academy’s response, its programs of affirmative action.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez