as in higher education
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With prestigious institutions from Georgetown to Carnegie Mellon setting up campuses, Qatar has been able to project an image as the center for higher learning in the Middle East, usurping a position once held by far more populous countries such as Egypt and Lebanon.
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Allen Fromherz / Made By History, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
But this caricature obscures a long-standing tension between academic freedom and the rigid bureaucracies endemic to higher learning institutions.
—Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024
Northwest Arkansas schools of higher learning are increasing employee benefits.
—Alex Golden, Axios, 9 July 2024
The gift marks an emphatic endorsement of the value of higher learning at a time when academia has been increasingly under political attack.
—Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
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Allen Fromherz / Made By History, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
But this caricature obscures a long-standing tension between academic freedom and the rigid bureaucracies endemic to higher learning institutions.
—Hazlitt, 4 Sep. 2024
Northwest Arkansas schools of higher learning are increasing employee benefits.
—Alex Golden, Axios, 9 July 2024
The gift marks an emphatic endorsement of the value of higher learning at a time when academia has been increasingly under political attack.
—Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
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“Higher learning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/higher%20learning. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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