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The University of Chile, the oldest university in the country, distinguishes three academic categories: Ordinary Category, Teaching Category, Adjunct Category, and Postdoctoral Researcher. [6] "Each category has its own academic ranks. Academics in the Ordinary Academic Category must carry out higher education and research or artistic creation".
College. A college (Latin: collegium) is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a degree -awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offering vocational education, a further education institution, or a secondary school.
Definition. The original Latin word universitas refers in general to "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc". [13] As urban town life and medieval guilds developed, specialized associations of students and teachers with collective legal rights (these rights were usually guaranteed ...
Student activities (also known as campus activities) are student-focused extracurricular clubs and programs offered at a college or university. Student activities are generally designed to allow students to become more involved on campus. Often, such activities provide the students with opportunities to develop leadership, social responsibility ...
A teaching assistant interacts with a reading child in October 2006 at U.S. Sasebo Naval base. A teaching assistant (TA) or education assistant (EA) is an individual who assists a professor or teacher with instructional responsibilities. TAs include graduate teaching assistants (GTAs), who are graduate students; undergraduate teaching ...
Medieval university. Illustration from a 16th-century manuscript showing a meeting of doctors at the University of Paris. A medieval university was a corporation organized during the Middle Ages for the purposes of higher education. The first Western European institutions generally considered to be universities were established in present-day ...
In Kenya, for K-12 education, the calendar year starts in January and ends in November. The academic year is divided into 3 terms as follows: Term 1: Early January – Late March. Term 2: Early May – Late July. Term 3: Early September – Early/Mid November. April, August and December are usually school holidays.
A Bachelor of Technology (Latin Baccalaureus Technologiae; B.Tech.) is an undergraduate academic degree in the field of engineering and technology conferred after the completion of a four-to-five-year program of studies at an accredited university or accredited higher education institution, such as a college or university in India and other countries.