(n.) A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.
(n.) A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.
(n.) A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.
(n.) Fig.: A community.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
(2) Data from 579 medical students from the classes of 1979-80 through 1983-84 attending a midwestern medical college were analyzed via moderated multiple regression.
(3) Life events were collected (using the Bedford College method) in 78 women patients aged 15-40 yr, of whom 39 were admitted for the removal of an appendix which proved to be normal at operation and in whom no organic cause for their pain was found, and a matched group of 39 parasuicide patients.
(4) The Future Forum is a group of 57 health sector specialists chaired by the Professor Steve Field, the former chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
(5) You can get a five-month-old to eat almost anything,” says Clare Llewellyn, lecturer in behavioural obesity research at University College London.
(6) But leading British doctors Sarah Creighton , consultant gynaecologist at the private Portland Hospital, Susan Bewley , consultant obstetrician at St Thomas's and Lih-Mei Liao , clinical psychologist in women's health at University College Hospital then wrote to the journal countering that his clitoral restoration claims were "anatomically impossible".
(7) The Geschwind-Behan hypothesis that immune disorder (IMD) is more common among left than among right handed persons was tested in a sample of 3080 college students.
(8) The Velten mood induction procedure was used to produce neutral or depressed moods in normal weight college students.
(9) She devoured political science texts, took evening classes at Goldsmiths college, and performed at protests and fundraisers, but became disillusioned.
(10) The position that it is time for the nursing profession to develop programs leading to the N.D. degree, or professional doctorate, (for the college graduates) derives from consideration of the nature of nursing, the contributions that nurses can make to development of an exemplary health care system, and from the recognized need for nursing to emerge as a full-fledged profession.
(11) "My future was probably to become an officer [running my own church] and go to London to the William Booth College," she says.
(12) The affiliation set up a joint venture to operate two clinics, one on Scholl College's traditional campus and one at the teaching hospital.
(13) Born in Dublin and educated at University College Dublin, he has also served on the board of the Washington Post, General Electric, Waterford Wedgwood and the New York Stock Exchange.
(14) A 1977 College of American Pathologists survey of hospitals has been analyzed to compare Rh immune globulin usage (RhIgG) with methods used to screen and confirm fetomaternal hemorrhage (FMH).
(15) Join us for a spot of future gazing as we discuss: The challenges and opportunities colleges and training providers will face over the next five years International expansion The role of FE in higher education New ways to diversify New technology – the possibilities and risks.
(16) A ten-year study of the sexual behavior of college students in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, shows that students choose among three sexual subcultures: celibacy, monogamy, and free experimentation.
(17) The “final four” of the NCAA men’s college basketball competition is due to be held in Indianapolis on 4 and 6 April.
(18) A college sample of 66 women and 34 men was assessed on both positive and negative affect using 4 measurement methods: self-report, peer report, daily report, and memory performance.
(19) School sixth-form funding Will be cut to bring it in line with that in colleges by 2015.
(20) [Disclosure: Newly-elected Elise Stefanik, the youngest woman elected to Congress, is a college friend of my husband’s.]
Tuition
Definition:
(n.) Superintending care over a young person; the particular watch and care of a tutor or guardian over his pupil or ward; guardianship.
(n.) Especially, the act, art, or business of teaching; instruction; as, children are sent to school for tuition; his tuition was thorough.
(n.) The money paid for instruction; the price or payment for instruction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Education is becoming unaffordable because of tuition fees and rent.
(2) A Wall Street Journal profile, published in 2000, says the Cherrys' interpreter introduced them to Deng, who was anxious to learn English, and Joyce Cherry offered her tuition.
(3) But it's been hard to convince employers that my dream is to become a storekeeper, or a sales person for a spare parts car company, after spending four years and €40,000 on tuition fees.
(4) May 2 1997 Labour is elected with a manifesto committed to leaving the door open for tuition fees: "the costs of student maintenance should be repaid by graduates on an income-related basis ..." July 23 1997 The Dearing report is published.
(5) Students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland currently pay up to £3,225 a year in tuition fees but many universities want a rise in the cap or even its removal.
(6) But within months, Blair had introduced tuition fees for university students, begun the process of privatisation in the NHS and later took part in the Iraq war.
(7) University tuition costs have soared, provoking violent protests.
(8) • A payment of £20,000 for tuition of the head of the Libyan investment authority.
(9) "In the next few months, students will have to face a proposed indexation of tuition fees to the cost of living, a measure which does not take into account the reality of students.
(10) Osborne also blew a £600m hole in Labour’s plans to fund its cut in tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000, taking the money to fund his savings package.
(11) "Many young people decide not to go to university when they finish their A-levels, and after a few years in employment decide that they need extra skills or to retrain, and it is clear that the government's decision to raise tuition fees and cut teaching funding is impacting them particularly hard," Burns said.
(12) "Even the education budget has hardly increased – one area where we should be spending more, instead of absurd tuition fees.
(13) Hate the smoking ban, HS2, Brussels, travellers, burqas, regulation, tax, Boris, debt, windfarms, quangos, foreign aid, crime, Abu Qatada, Muslims, tuition fees, lazy people, asylum seekers, the hunting ban?
(14) Many privately admit they should never have signed the National Union of Students' pledge opposing tuition fees at the time of the election as they were actively encouraged to do by party headquarters.
(15) Education • Every primary-school child who needs it will get one-to-one tuition • Labour will pilot a scheme to give all primary-school children free school meals.
(16) Tuition fees put off the poorest students and make university more about your bank balance than your ability."
(17) Sarah Parkes, who went to Sherborne Girls school before graduating with a first in history from Bristol University and then completing a law conversion course, says the tuition made her more aware of the benefits of her own education.
(18) The Ucas chief executive, Mary Curnock Cook, said: "This in-depth analysis of the 2012 applications data shows that, although there has been a reduction in application rates where tuition fees have increased, there has not been a disproportionate effect on more disadvantaged groups.
(19) The pressure on applicants is intensified because around 2,000 students from the UK and the EC have also applied to the universities because tuition fees of £3,465 in Northern Ireland are cheaper than in Britain.
(20) When it comes to tuition fees, do not believe the voices who tell us that the average Briton thinks students are a pampered lot who should get with the government's plans and count themselves lucky.