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higher learning

n.
Education or academic accomplishment at the college or university level.
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He was a college man, in dress and carriage as like as a pea to the type that of late years is being so generously turned out of our institutions of higher learning. His handshake was satisfyingly strong and stiff.
Representation from lecturers and researchers of public universities and higher learning institutions will be picked from the remaining 7 candidatures,' he said.
Legislation ought to be stipulated and decrees implemented across all institutions of higher learning. The culture of decent dressing for students should start right from primary school to tertiary levels.
She said online study platforms made access to higher learning possible even to people who could not due to different circumstances.
KARACHI -- Under Pakistan Technical Assistance Programme (PTAP) for Sri Lanka, a large number of Sri Lankan students and scholars will visit International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), University of Karachi (UoK) to pursue higher learning degree programmes.
These circles have maintained that if the shortcomings and flaws in this politically-motivated doctrine of devolution are not attended to on a priority basis it would cause irreparable damage to the entire system and our institutions of higher learning and the degrees awarded by them may lose international credibility and recognition.
HYDERABAD -- The President Quomi Awami Party Ayaz Latif Palijo Advocate has demanded the establishment of higher learning institutions in the district headquarters of Sindh instead opening of campuses adding that the campuses cannot fulfill the requirements of the students to acquire higher education.
Hyderabad -- The Governor Sindh Imran Ismail said the establishment of maximum number of higher learning institutions is the vision of the Prime Minister Imran Khan and vowed that the federal government would set up more universities districts of Sindh after Hyderabad.
The student must be enrolled full-time at a certified institution of higher learning within Illinois.
The event is also a one-stop information event on the professional and vocational courses that NRIs and other students can pursue in reputed institutions of higher learning. The event is organised by Lynx MICE, Muscat and Indus Fairs and Events (India).
He said University of Sindh is the oldest higher learning institutions of the country where the faculties have been engaged to produce the best graduates so that they could serve the country and pool their share for progress and prosperity of the homeland.

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