How to Use higher education in a Sentence

higher education

noun
  • Students and their parents worry about the rising cost of higher education.
  • Stephani works in higher education and Jeff works at a truck dealership, and the two live in Fort Wayne.
    Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 25 July 2022
  • During the meeting, Revels of De Queen spoke about the role of the board in the state's higher education system.
    Jaime Adame, Arkansas Online, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Five out of the nine are in the top ten lowest for rates of higher education attainment.
    Hank Sanders, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • By then, Youngkin had signed the state budget with boost in funding for higher education; the board scrapped the hike at that meeting.
    Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Read on to see who else has pursued higher education at some of our nation’s top schools.
    Diana Pearl, People.com, 2 Dec. 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
  • The House had already killed the higher education budget twice.
    Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 4 July 2022
  • But the focus ought to be on the cost of higher education, and a reformation on how to deliver it to more people.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Today, Grossmont is the largest provider of higher education and job training in East County.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • But pursuing that plan meant leaving the island for a higher education in the States, and college was costly.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 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
  • At this point, the universe isn’t just trying to tell us something about our out-of-control higher education system.
    BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Why are the new elites growing exponentially at a time when the rest of higher education is in decline?
    Brandon Busteed, Forbes, 7 May 2022
  • 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
  • The group was behind the cases that led the high court to reject affirmative action in higher education in June 2023.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 6 Dec. 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
  • This includes students with disabilities, students who are low-income and students in early childhood or higher education programs.
    Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Attacking science and higher education, whether under the guise of reducing taxpayer waste or punishing antisemitism, was always part of this administration’s plan.
    Celia Ford, Vox, 17 Mar. 2025

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