How to Use higher education in a Sentence

higher education

noun
  • Students and their parents worry about the rising cost of higher education.
  • And that’s been enough to help the higher education lobby long stymie calls for reform.
    Frederick Hess, Forbes, 9 Oct. 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
  • While the bubble of higher education is in some respects a different world, that seems to be a pretty good representation of the prevalence of procrastination.
    Trey Williams, Fortune, 11 Oct. 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
  • 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 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
  • This firm, which is based in Fort Worth, provides a virtual health and well-being solution for higher education.
    Dallas News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The New Republic’s ‘American Fascism’ issue reveals, among other things, the depth of the rot in elite higher education.
    Nathan Schlueter, National Review, 13 July 2024

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