Topic Specific Vocabulary-Education

 Education Vocabulary

• Secondary education – Secondary education refers to school studies and culminates in a High School Diploma.
• Higher education – Education for people above school age, including college, university, and vocational courses. (also called Tertiary education).
• Certificate – For short academic programs.
• Diploma – University level programs shorter than a degree.
• Degree – Relatively long academic programs covering specific areas in great depth.
• Traditionally the first degree you acquire is the Bachelor’s. You can then apply for Master’s and PhD (doctorate). PhD courses may be a mix of theory and practice in your chosen subject.
• Curriculum – It means the content taught in a specific academic program. By curriculum, we often mean courses offered by a school.
• Tuition fees –  What you pay directly to the university and the cost of attendance includes food, housing, transportation, books, and supplies.
• Top-tier institutions – Leading or prestigious institutions.
• Scholarship – Money for your education awarded based on various criteria defined by a sponsor. Scholarships are awarded for scholastic achievement.
• Bursaries – Awarded on the basis of financial need, so it is a certain type of social financial help.
• Grants – Funds provided by a certain party, often a government department, corporation, or foundation to an individual or institution.
• Fellowships – usually refer to grants in support of post-baccalaureate projects, or to pre-baccalaureate projects pursued outside the standard curriculum.
• to revise – to make changes especially to correct or improve (something); to study (something) again.
• to enrol (in a degree course) – to enter (someone) as a member of or participant in something; to take (someone) as a member or participant; to become a member or participant.
• to review – to look at or examine (something) carefully especially before making a decision or judgment; to study or look at (something) again; to describe or show (a series of things or events from the past).
• to research – to study (something) carefully; to collect information about or for (something).
• to attend (classes) – to go to or be present at some event.
• to major in a subject – to pursue an academic major.
• to deliver a lecture – to carry out/conduct a lecture.
• to graduate (from a university) – to earn a degree or diploma from a school, college, or university.
• to keep up with (your studies) – to go or make progress at the same rate as others.
• to demonstrate academic gains – to show academic progress/education achievement.
• to broaden horizons – to enlarge/expand someone’s scope.
• to fall behind (with studies) – lag behind.
• to evaluate – to determine or fix the value of something; to determine the significance, worth, or condition of usually by careful appraisal and study.
• to procrastinate – to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done
• Campus – the area and buildings around a university, college, school, etc.
• Essay – a short piece of writing that tells a person’s thoughts or opinions about a subject
• Debate – a discussion between people in which they express different opinions about something
• Attendance – the number of people present at an event, meeting, etc. the act of being present at a place; a record of how often a person goes to classes, meetings, etc.
• Compulsory – required by a law or rule; having the power of forcing someone to do something
• Inquisitive – tending to ask questions; having a desire to know or learn more asking too many questions about other people’s lives
• Dissertation – a long piece of writing about a particular subject that is done to earn an advanced degree at a university
• Discipline – a field of study
• Faculty – a branch of teaching or learning in an educational institution
• Peer – a person who belongs to the same age group or social group as someone else
• Literacy – the ability to read and write; knowledge that relates to a specified subject
• Alumnus – someone who was a student at a particular school, college, or university
• Assignment – a specified task or amount of work assigned or undertaken as if assigned by authority
• Thesis – a long piece of writing on a particular subject that is done to earn a degree at a university
• Play Truant – Be absent without permission.
• Mental agility – ability to think quickly and clearly.
• Straight A student – a student who always gets very good marks.
• Core subjects – compulsory subjects.