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Tertiary education refers to education beyond secondary school, such as college or university education. It includes both undergraduate education and vocational/graduate programs. Tertiary education aims to impart broad knowledge and develop intellectual skills and is normally offered by institutions like universities and colleges. In many countries, tertiary education has become very important to individuals and economies by providing educated and trained workers and also constituting a significant industry itself through activities like teaching, research, and services.

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Tertiary (Higher) : Higher Education Adult Education

Tertiary education refers to education beyond secondary school, such as college or university education. It includes both undergraduate education and vocational/graduate programs. Tertiary education aims to impart broad knowledge and develop intellectual skills and is normally offered by institutions like universities and colleges. In many countries, tertiary education has become very important to individuals and economies by providing educated and trained workers and also constituting a significant industry itself through activities like teaching, research, and services.

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Tertiary (higher)

Students in a laboratory, Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University

See also: Higher education and Adult education

Universities often host prominent guest speakers for student audiences, e.g. First Lady of the United
StatesMichelle Obama delivering remarks at Peking University, Beijing, China

Higher education, also called tertiary, third stage, or postsecondary education, is the non-compulsory
educational level that follows the completion of a school such as a high school or secondary school.
Tertiary education is normally taken to include undergraduate and postgraduate education, as well
as vocational education and training. Colleges and universities mainly provide tertiary education.
Collectively, these are sometimes known as tertiary institutions. Individuals who complete tertiary
education generally receive certificates, diplomas, or academic degrees.
Higher education typically involves work towards a degree-level or foundation degree qualification. In
most developed countries, a high proportion of the population (up to 50%) now enter higher
education at some time in their lives. Higher education is therefore very important to
national economies, both as a significant industry in its own right and as a source of trained and
educated personnel for the rest of the economy.
University education includes teaching, research, and social services activities, and it includes both
the undergraduate level (sometimes referred to as tertiary education) and the graduate (or
postgraduate) level (sometimes referred to as graduate school). Some universities are composed of
several colleges.
One type of university education is a liberal arts education, which can be defined as a
"college or university curriculum aimed at imparting broad general knowledge and developing
general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational, or technical
curriculum."[15]Although what is known today as liberal arts education began in Europe,[16] the term
"liberal arts college" is more commonly associated with institutions in the United States such
as Williams College or Barnard College.[17]

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