A report on Education and University

Young children in a kindergarten in Japan

The University of Bologna in Italy, founded in 1088, is often regarded as the world's oldest university in continuous operation

Harvard University, founded in 1636, is the oldest university in the United States and is routinely ranked among the world's best universities

A high-school senior (twelfth grade) classrooms in Calhan, Colorado, United States

Moroccan higher-learning institution Al-Qarawiyin (founded in 859 A.D.) was transformed into a university under the supervision of the ministry of education in 1963.

Students in a laboratory, Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University

Meeting of doctors at the University of Paris. From a medieval manuscript.

Universities often host prominent guest speakers for student audiences, e.g. First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama delivering remarks at Peking University, Beijing, China

The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the United Kingdom and among the world's top ranked

Carpentry is normally learned through apprenticeship with an experienced carpenter.

The University of St Andrews, founded in 1410, is Scotland's oldest university and one of the UK's best ranked universities.

Teaching indigenous knowledge, models, and methods in Yanyuan County, Sichuan, China

Old main building of the University of Basel—Switzerland's oldest university (1460). The university is among the birthplaces of Renaissance humanism

A volunteer reads aloud to children in Laos.

17th-century classroom at the University of Salamanca

King's College London, established by Royal Charter having been founded by King George IV and Duke of Wellington in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London.

Beijing Normal University, which is governed directly by the Chinese Ministry of Education, is an example of collaboration between different entities in the education sector.

Peking University in Beijing was founded as the Imperial University of Peking

The University of Sydney is Australia's oldest university.

Nalanda, ancient centre for higher learning

The University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia in the United States was founded in 1819 by American founding father Thomas Jefferson

Matteo Ricci (left) and Xu Guangqi (right) in the Chinese edition of Euclid's Elements published in 1607

World map indicating Education Index (according to 2007/2008 Human Development Report)

The OLPC laptop being introduced to children in Haiti

A class size experiment in the United States found that attending small classes for three or more years in the early grades increased high school graduation rates of students from low income families.

John Locke's work Some Thoughts Concerning Education was written in 1693 and still reflects traditional education priorities in the Western world.

A university is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines.

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It spans the period between the typically universal compulsory, primary education to the optional, selective tertiary, "postsecondary", or "higher" education of ISCED 5 and 6 (e.g. university), and the ISCED 4 Further education or vocational school.

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Students attend a lecture at a tertiary institution: Helsinki University of Technology

Tertiary education

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Percentage of 25-29-year-olds who have completed at least four years of tertiary education, by wealth, selected countries, 2008-2014

Deakin University, one of Australia's 43 universities

The University of Pennsylvania, an American research university

Federal Polytechnic, Nekede in Owerri, Nigeria.

Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education.

The World Bank, for example, defines tertiary education as including universities as well as trade schools and colleges.

Harvard University, an Ivy League university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, routinely ranks as the best, or one of the best, institutions of higher learning in the world.

Higher education

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Tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree.

Mean financial wealth of US families by education of the head of household, 1989-2010

Mean income of US families by education of the head of household, 1989-2010

Courtyard, Al-Qarawiyyin University, Fes, Morocco

University of Bologna, located in Bologna, Italy, is the oldest university created under that name in the world.<ref>Top Universities World University Rankings Retrieved 2010-1-6</ref><ref>Our History - Università di Bologna</ref><ref>{{cite book |url =https://books.google.com/books?id=wyjnHZ1IIlgC&q=the+oldest+university+in+the+world+Bologna&pg=PA18 |title = The Challenge of Bologna |author= Paul L. Gaston |year=2010|page=18|isbn=978-1-57922-366-3 }}</ref>

Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco, located in Mexico City, Mexico, was the first and oldest European school of higher learning in the Americas<ref>{{cite book|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/101392426|title=The first college in America: Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco.|location=Washington DC|year=1936|author1=Steck|author2=Francis Borgia}}</ref> and the first and oldest major school of interpreters and translators in the New World.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.openedition.org/uop/336?lang=es|title=The Imperial College of Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco|author=Lourdes Arencibia Rodriguez}}</ref>

The University of Pennsylvania considers itself the first institution in the United States of America to use the term "university" in its name.

The University of Cambridge is an institution of higher learning in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

McGill University is an institution of higher learning in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and one of two Canadian members of the Association of American Universities.

The Moscow State University is an institution of higher learning in Moscow, Russia.

The Jeffersonian architecture of Tsinghua University, an institution of higher learning in Beijing, China.

The University of Tokyo is an institution of higher learning in Tokyo, Japan.

The University of São Paulo is an institution of higher learning in São Paulo, Brazil.

Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completion of secondary education.

In the US, higher education is provided by universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, conservatories, and institutes of technology, and certain college-level institutions, including vocational schools, universities of applied sciences, trade schools, and other career-based colleges that award degrees.

American academic doctors gather before the commencement exercises at Brigham Young University (April 2008). The American code for academic dress identifies academic doctors with three bands of velvet on the sleeve of the doctoral gown.

Doctorate

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Academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism licentia docendi ("licence to teach").

Cover of the thesis presented by Claude Bernard to obtain his Doctor of Medicine degree (1843)

The ancient ceremony of bestowing Complutense's Doctoral biretta.

Traditionally, the friends of a new doctor honored him painting a victor on the walls (in this case, the Seville Cathedral).

In 1861, Yale University awarded the first Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in the United States.

George Makdisi theorizes that the ijazah issued in early Islamic madrasahs was the origin of the doctorate later issued in medieval European universities.

Many fields offer professional doctorates (or professional master's) such as engineering, pharmacy, medicine, public health, dentistry, optometry, psychology, speech–language pathology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, health science, advanced practice registered nurse, chiropractic, naturopathic medicine, law, architecture, education, teaching, business, management, and others that require such degrees for professional practice or licensure.

Science

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Systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

The first diagram of an evolutionary tree made by Charles Darwin in 1837

First global view of the ozone hole in 1983, using a space telescope

Radio light image of M87* black hole, made by the earth-spanning Event Horizon Telescope array in 2019

Supply and demand curve in economics, crossing over at the optimal equilibrium

A steam turbine with the case opened, such turbines produce most of the electricity used today

A diagram variant of scientific method represented as an ongoing process

Cover of the first issue of Nature, 4 November 1869

For Kuhn, the addition of epicycles in Ptolemaic astronomy was "normal science" within a paradigm, whereas the Copernican revolution was a paradigm shift.

Marie Curie was the first person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes: Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911.

Picture of scientists in 200th anniversary of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, 1900

Medal of the Nobel Prize, one of the most well-known science awards

Budget of NASA as percentage of United States federal budget, peaking at 4.4% in 1966 and slowly decline since

Dinosaur exhibit in the Houston Museum of Natural Science

In the OECD, around two-thirds of research and development in scientific and technical fields is carried out by industry, and 20% and 10% respectively by universities and government.

As a student advances into higher stages of formal education, the curriculum becomes more in depth.

Teacher

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Educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence or virtue.

A teacher interacts with older students at a school in New Zealand

A primary school teacher on a picnic with her students, Colombia, 2014

A primary school teacher in northern Laos

The teacher-student-monument in Rostock, Germany, honors teachers

GDR "village teacher", a teacher teaching students of all age groups in one class in 1951

Jewish children with their teacher in Samarkand, the beginning of the 20th century.

Medieval schoolboy birched on the bare buttocks

Teacher and pupils in liberated Guinea-Bissau, 1974.

Math and physics teacher at a junior college in Sweden, in the 1960s

Students of a U.S. university with their professor on the far right, 2009

This article focuses on those who are employed, as their main role, to teach others in a formal education context, such as at a school or other place of initial formal education or training.

In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional qualifications or credentials from a university or college.

Student

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Primarily a person enrolled in a school or other educational institution.

Taiwan schoolgirls during Japanese rule, 1927

A group of high school girls of South Africa getting photographed.

Indian schoolgirls and a schoolboy in their school uniform, along with their teachers, in Delhi NCR.

Students of Stony Creek State School, Queensland, 1939

Students in a lecture on linear algebra at the Helsinki University of Technology

The new graduates of the Europa-Institut in Germany gather to throw their mortar boards in the air as part of a graduation ceremony

Admission of a student in "Germanic Nation", University of Bologna, 15th century

Students of the Cégep de St-Hyacinthe in Quebec working in a computer lab

Students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In the United Kingdom and most commonwealth countries, the term "student" denotes those enrolled in secondary schools and higher (e.g., college or university); those enrolled in primary/elementary schools are called "pupils".

A mature, non-traditional, or adult student in tertiary education (at a university or a college) is normally classified as an (undergraduate) student who is at least 21–23 years old at the start of their course and usually having been out of the education system for at least two years.