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Further Reading: Education

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Term Paper ... During the years from 1870 to 1900, Moulton and Holmes (2003) write that "American education was transformed as writing became a method of discourse and research the hallmark of learning." Russell (1991) writes that in the 1910s, "the research paper began to harden into its familiar form" adding that plagiarism and the sale of research papers both became a problem during this time... In the present day an entire industry has sprung up to provide plagiarized, pre-written, or custom written term papers to students of levels of education...

College Athletics ... Competition between student clubs from different colleges, not organized by and therefore not representing the institutions or their faculties, may also be called "intercollegiate" athletics or simply college sports. College sports originated as student activities...

Spanish Language ... In 1999 there were, according to Ethnologue, 358 million people speaking Spanish as a native language and a total of 417 million speakers worldwide. Currently these figures are up to 400 and 500 million people respectively...

University ... The first universities in Europe with a form of corporate/guild structure were the University of Bologna (1088), the University of Paris (c. 1150, later associated with the Sorbonne), the University of Oxford (1167), the University of Palencia (1208), the University of Cambridge (1209), the University of Salamanca (1218), the University of Montpellier (1220), the University of Padua (1222), the University of Naples Federico II (1224), the University of Toulouse (1229), the University of Siena (1240)...

Philosophy Of History ... Sometimes critical philosophy of history is included under historiography. Philosophy of history should not be confused with the history of philosophy, which is the study of the development of philosophical ideas through time...

Homeschooling ... In some cases a liberal arts education is provided using the trivium and quadrivium as the main model...

Community College ... The majority of colleges by the late 20th century had also become Registered Training Organisations; recognising the need to offer individuals a nurturing, non-traditional education venue to gain skills that would better prepare them for the workplace and potential job openings... Colleges are educational institutions providing higher education and tertiary education, granting certificates, diplomas, associate's degrees, and bachelor's degrees...

Primary Education ... In most countries, it is compulsory for children to receive primary education although it is permissible for parents to provide it... The major goals of primary education are achieving basic literacy and numeracy amongst all pupils, as well as establishing foundations in science, mathematics, geography, history and other social sciences... Typically, primary education is provided in schools, where the child will stay in steadily advancing classes until they complete it and move on to high school/secondary school...

Middle School ... The admissions for most students to enroll in senior middle schools from junior stage are on the basis of the scores that they get in "Senior Middle School Entrance Exam", which are held by local governments. Other students may avoid the exam, based on their distinctive talents, like athletics, or excellent daily performance in junior stage...

Fordham University ... Fordham is composed of four undergraduate colleges and six graduate schools. Enrollment at Fordham includes approximately 8,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students spread over three campuses in New York State: Rose Hill in the Bronx, Lincoln Center in Manhattan, and Westchester in West Harrison...

Education In The Palestinian Territories ... In the Palestinian territories education system, compulsory basic education includes Grades 1 to 10 and this is divided into the preparatory stage (Grades 1 to 4) and the empowerment stage (Grades 5 to 10)... Secondary education (general secondary education and a few vocational secondary schools) covers Grades 11 and 12... UNRWA’s education provision has played a major role in Palestinian territories education since 1967...

High School ... In all of New Zealand and Malaysia along with parts of Australia, Bangladesh and Canada, high school is synonymous with secondary school, and encompasses the entire secondary stage of education... The later years of high school are known as the Higher School Certificate (HSC) in New South Wales for Year 12, Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) in Victoria for Years 11 and 12 and similar names in other states...

Elementary School ... Education was restructured into three progressive stages which were known as primary education, secondary education and further education...

School Discipline ... Historical attitudes to school discipline Corporal punishment Throughout the history of education the most common means of maintaining discipline in schools was corporal punishment...

Second-language Acquisition ... As well as the various branches of linguistics, second-language acquisition is also closely related to psychology, cognitive psychology, and education... Writers in fields such as education and psychology, however, often use bilingualism loosely to refer to all forms of multilingualism...

Elementary Schools In Japan ... Virtually all elementary education takes place in public schools; less than 1% of the schools are private...

Virtual School ... All or a majority of the student services are conducted via Internet technology. The virtual school differ/contrasts from the traditional school through the physical media that links administrators, teachers, and students...

Tuition Payments ... Tuition payment Some methods students use to pay for the cost of tuition include: Scholarships Bursaries Grants Parents' money Student savings Government Student loans Financial institution loans Educational institution loans Company funding Tuition is one of the costs of a post-secondary education in the U. S...

Education ... A right to education has been created and recognized by some jurisdictions: Since 1952, Article 2 of the first Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights obliges all signatory parties to guarantee the right to education... Etymology Etymologically, the word education is derived from the Latin ēducātiō (“A breeding, a bringing up, a rearing) from ēdūcō (“I educate, I train”) which is related to the homonym ēdūcō (“I lead forth, I take out; I raise up, I erect”) from ē- (“from, out of”) and dūcō (“I lead, I conduct”)...

Romanian Educational System ... Kindergarten is optional under the age of six. At the age of six, children must join the "preparatory school year", which is mandatory in order to enter the first grade...

Medieval University ... These universities evolved from much older Christian cathedral schools and monastic schools, and it is difficult to define the date at which they became true universities, although the lists of studia generalia for higher education in Europe held by the Vatican are a useful guide...

Amateur Sports ... The middle and upper class men who dominated the sporting establishment not only had a theoretical preference for amateurism, they also had a self-interest in blocking the professionalisation of sport, which threatened to make it feasible for the working classes to compete against themselves with success. Working class sportsmen didn't see why they shouldn't be paid to play...

Online Tutoring ... The tutoring may take the form of a group of learners simultaneously logged in and receiving instruction from a single tutor, also known as many-to-one tutoring. This is often known as e-moderation, defined as the facilitation of the achievement of goals of independent learning, learner autonomy, self-reflection, knowledge construction, collaborative or group-based learning, online discussion, transformative learning and communities of practice...

Further Reading: University

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History Of European Research Universities ... By the 18th century, universities published academic journals; by the 19th century, the German and the French university models were established... The German university — the Humboldtian model — established by Wilhelm von Humboldt was based upon Friedrich Schleiermacher’s liberal ideas about the importance of freedom, seminars, and laboratories, which, like the French university model, involved strict discipline and control of every aspect of the university... Moreover, until the 19th century’s end, religion exerted a significant, limiting influence upon academic curricula and research, by when the German university model had become the world standard...

Education In Singapore ... Education spending usually makes up about 20 per cent of the annual national budget, which subsidises state education and government-assisted private education for Singaporean citizens and funds the Edusave programme, the costs for which are significantly higher for non-citizens. In 2000 the Compulsory Education Act codified compulsory education for children of primary school age (excepting those with disabilities), and made it a criminal offence for parents to fail to enroll their children in school and ensure their regular attendance...

List Of Medieval Universities ... There is no official strict definition of a Studium generale, the term having emerged from customary usage. The following properties were common among them, and often treated as criteria: (1) that it received students from everywhere (not merely the local district or region); (2) That it engaged in higher learning, i.e...

Education In Malaysia ... Education may be obtained from the multilingual public school system, which provide free education for all Malaysians, or private schools, or through homeschooling. By law, primary education is compulsory...

Higher Education In The United States ... The United States has a total of 4,495 Title IV-eligible, degree-granting institutions, 2,774 4-year institutions and 1,721 2-year institutions., an average of more than 115 per state. As of 2010, the US had 20.3 million students in higher education, roughly 5.7% of the total population...

List Of Schools In Singapore ... ITE College Central (Former ITE East Network) ITE College Central (Bedok) ITE College Central (Bishan) ITE College Central (MacPherson) ITE College Central (Tampines) ITE College Central (Yishun) ITE College West (Former ITE West Network) ITE College West (Ang Mo Kio) ITE College West (Balestier) ITE College West (Bukit Batok) ITE College West (Clementi) ITE College West (Dover) ITE College East (Regional Campus at Simei) Polytechnics Nanyang Polytechnic Ngee Ann Polytechnic Republic Polytechnic Singapore Polytechnic Temasek Polytechnic Universities See also List of universities in Singapore Singapore universities Nanyang Technological University National University of Singapore Singapore Management University SUTD International universities Central Queensland University Undergraduate, permanent campus UNSW Asia (closed June 2007) Gr...

Vocational Education ... Vocational education may be classified as teaching procedural knowledge. This can be contrasted with declarative knowledge, as used in education in a usually broader scientific field, which might concentrate on theory and abstract conceptual knowledge, characteristic of tertiary education...