noun
higher normal school; pre-war teacher training college
Historical term for a pre-1945 public institution that trained male secondary-school teachers. Often abbreviated as 高師 (こうし).
彼の祖父は高等師範学校を卒業して、旧制中学の教師になった。
His grandfather graduated from a higher normal school and became a teacher at an old-system middle school.
高等師範学校は戦後の学制改革で新制大学に移行した。
Higher normal schools were reorganized into new-system universities after the post-war educational reform.