higher learning

noun

Higher education.

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Meanings

nounhigher learning (uncountable)
  1. uncountableHigher education.
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    Over the years, he has held various appointments, including former trustee of the journalists association and research society of the College newspapers of the institutions of higher learning in Hubei, correspondent of Information newspaper and newspaper of Wuhan Grain Industry College, editor of the Reference on Party and Government at colleges and universities and trustee of the research society of the management of personnel affairs at the institutions of higher learning in Sichuan.

    1992, “Yu-chang Han”, in International Who's Who of Intellectuals, Ninth edition, Cambridge, England: International Biographical Centre, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 305

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