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高等教育 (こうとうきょういく) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
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She received higher education overseas.
The rate of advancement to higher education institutions is rising.
Usage patterns 〈 人ひと 〉 が 高こう 等とう 教きょう 育いく を 受う ける for someone to receive higher education
More and more young people are receiving higher education.
高こう 等とう 教きょう 育いく を 提てい 供きょう する to provide higher education
高こう 等とう 教きょう 育いく の 質しつ を 高たか める to improve the quality of higher education
Kanji 等 etc., and so forth, class (first) 育 bring up, grow up, raise Related words 大学教育 refers specifically to university-level education, while 高等教育 is the broader term covering universities, junior colleges, and technical colleges alike.
高等教育 describes higher education as an institutional system, while 高学歴 describes an individual's personal attainment of such education.
Opposites 中等教育 refers to secondary education (middle and high school), the stage that precedes 高等教育 in the Japanese education system.
初等教育 refers to elementary/primary education, the earliest stage of schooling, in contrast to 高等教育 which comes after secondary school.
Etymology A compound of 高等, meaning 'higher' or 'advanced,' and 教育, meaning 'education'; the spelling directly reflects the modern institutional meaning.
There are few institutions providing higher education in this region.
The government is advancing policies to improve the quality of higher education.
