How to Use higher education in a Sentence

higher education

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  • 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
  • And that’s been enough to help the higher education lobby long stymie calls for reform.
    — Frederick Hess, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The goal of higher education is to prepare students with skills for the real world.
    — WSJ, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Their strike was seen as a precursor to a surge of union activism in higher education.
    — Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The plan does nothing to help our most needy increase their chances of success in higher education.
    — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2022
  • 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 issue of student loan debt is only set to get worse as the price of higher education continues to rise.
    — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024
  • But the ever-rising cost of higher education, rather than the loans people take out to pay for it, is the actual root of the problem, Abrams argued.
    — Erin B. Logan staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
  • If trends continue, about 1 million students from around the world will come to the U.S. to pursue higher education this year.
    — Barnet Sherman, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Does this mean pricey higher education will get the reset or even comeuppance many say is coming to it?
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • My grandfather was such a progressive man in a time in Nigeria and around the world, frankly, where the choice for women to go to school and get higher education was sort of, there was a ceiling, was capped.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Lois Rosenthal first hired me to teach at Uptown Arts and saw my potential in higher education.
    — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The authors are likely right about one thing – higher education is at or near an inflection point.
    — Derek Newton, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Such views could amount to a red flag for the higher education sector, especially as the share of young, male high school grads who are enrolled in college has declined.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 23 May 2024
  • But barriers in the state's higher education systems, like Cal State and UC, make the transfer process difficult, the audit found.
    — Kate Murphy, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
  • That means anyone can throw up a website that seems like a place offering higher education.
    — Chris Quintana, The Courier-Journal, 9 May 2024
  • 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
  • And don’t be afraid to ask for help from your higher education institution and learn how to advocate for yourself.
    — Christina Rodriguez, refinery29.com, 13 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • With plans to meet through the year and into next, the 18-member panel is considering reform and the challenges the state’s higher education public system faces.
    — Benjamin Yount | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 July 2024
  • Meanwhile, recruiters globally are now five times more likely to search for new hires by skills over higher education.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 4 Oct. 2024
  • At the time, it was intended to make higher education more affordable to low-income students.
    — David Bushman, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Their other daughter, Rowan, 20, is also out of the house and pursuing higher education.
    — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024
  • Off camera, Avery was married to his wife, Barbara, who worked in higher education.
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 8 May 2024
  • For decades, the California State University system focused on graduation rates as the top marker of student success, in line with most of its fellow higher education institutions.
    — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The income limits for taxpayers eligible to claim the Lifetime Learning Credit, which is a tax credit for individuals or their dependents who are enrolled in higher education programs, also remain unchanged for 2025.
    — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024

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