How to Use higher education in a Sentence

higher education

noun
  • Students and their parents worry about the rising cost of higher education.
  • And yet, these debates about race and higher education focus on the end of a long pipeline.
    Emma Green, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Their strike was seen as a precursor to a surge of union activism in higher education.
    Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • In my view, the promise of higher education means access to stories like the one of Graham Jackson’s.
    David Cason, The Conversation, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The cost of higher education has increased faster than inflation for years.
    Mike Scott, Arkansas Online, 11 July 2023
  • That leaves a lot of students who could be getting help to pay for training in higher education without support.
    Edward Conroy, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Has higher education gone from being the Great Equalizer meant to level the playing field to a system that tilts it further toward those who need it least?
    Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 8 July 2023
  • The shift has mostly been limited to the upper tiers of higher education, however.
    Collin Binkley, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2023
  • In the decades since, some African Americans have achieved high office, some have achieved higher tax brackets and a growing number have achieved higher education.
    Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • At the time, it was intended to make higher education more affordable to low-income students.
    David Bushman, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • What about those rare and lasting life lessons at institutions of higher education?
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The measure, which now heads to the majority-GOP House for a vote, would also apply to public schools and institutions of higher education.
    Fox News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • And so, in higher education, in the media, even in big tech, conservatives saw themselves being censored.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The past decades have seen huge increases in costs at public institutions of higher education.
    Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The teens took a deep dive into the ethical issues that face engineers, as well as what to expect when pursuing higher education and a STEM career.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2023
  • On the one hand, interacting with students from different backgrounds better prepared them for the world of higher education and work.
    Elizabeth Aries, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2023
  • With the war in Gaza dividing college campuses across the country, Greg Lukianoff believes this difficult moment reveals the depth of the free-speech crisis in higher education.
    Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The news has a connection to another story in higher education: the return of the standardized test requirement at some colleges.
    David Leonhardt, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Roughly a third of Americans expressed confidence in the value of higher education, down from more than half in 2015, according to a Gallup poll earlier this year.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Vinson: All of us have been recognizing over the past several years an overall declining faith in the value of higher education.
    Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
  • But at the same time, the very idea of a higher education is at risk when threats of canceling or blacklisting become a part of educational relationships.
    Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Supreme Court justices have some personal exposure to the costs of higher education; all attended pricey private colleges and law schools, and several have children who have or may do the same.
    Jess Bravin, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Anything left over could be put toward higher education.
    Talia Richman, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Add that to persistent worries about higher education debt, and you’re left with a contingent of radicalized young people, ready to demand more.
    Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The shake up of higher education rankings induced U.S. News to reform its methodology for its law school rankings in January.
    Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
  • People with higher education are also more likely to be able to work hybrid or remotely (between 59% for those with college degrees and 41% for those without).
    Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2024
  • And for those without higher education or a close relative in the U.S., there is typically no route to lawful entry other than seeking asylum at the U.S. border.
    Wendy Edelberg and Tara Watson, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
  • There are fewer younger individuals in the workforce, which Bain & Co. attributes to the rise of young adults spending more time in higher education as well as lower fertility rates.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 20 July 2023
  • Morris had worked in higher education for the better part of two decades; his last post was coordinator of equity and diversity for Cal State Northridge.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Her mom never got the chance to go on to higher education, despite being a voracious reader and having an endlessly curious mind.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2023

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