Tertiary Education
Tertiary education, also referred to as third stage, third level, and post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of a school providing a secondary education. Higher education is taken to include undergraduate and postgraduate education, while vocational education and training beyond secondary education is known as further education in the United Kingdom, or continuing education in the United States.
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... its support in areas involving education specifically, it decreased support for tertiary education supports for the poor ... In fact, government funding and investment in higher education in Venezuela between 1989 and 1998 (Hugo Chávez only entered the presidency afterwards, in 1999) saw a marked downward trend ... desire to reduce resources and state support for education while furthering the project of privatization of higher education, as per the doctrines of the Washington Consensus and neoliberalism ...
... The modern Tertiary, or Third Order of Saint Dominic, as it exists in the 21st century, has two categories regular, i.e ...
... Per capita spending on tertiary education is among the highest in the world ... Public education is managed by individual states, municipalities and regional school districts ... As in all developed countries, primary and secondary education is free, universal and mandatory ...
... In the medieval Livonian Confederation, Latin and German were the dominant languages of education and administration ... German was the language of instruction in the first institution of tertiary education on the territory of Latvia (Riga Polytechnicum, founded in 1862) ... in their mother tongues and, despite switching public tertiary education to Latvian, did not forbid private post-secondary education in minority languages ...
... "Tertiary education" includes further education (FE), as well as higher education (HE) ... Since the 1970s specialized FE colleges called “tertiary colleges” have been set up to offer courses such as A Levels, that allow progression to ... of this which expanded in September 1982 as part of a reorganization of education in the Halesowen area which also saw three-tier education axed after just 10 years in force ...
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