secondary education
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsecondaryandeducation
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secondary
adjective
uk/ˈsek.ən.dri/us/ˈsek.ən.der.i/
less important than ...
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education
noun[S or U]
uk/ˌedʒ.ʊˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌedʒ.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the process of teaching or learning, especially in a school or college, or the knowledge that you get ...
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(Definition ofsecondaryandeducationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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By the time they entersecondaryeducation(13 years old), students have a vocabulary of 16,000 words.
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Given the substantially low level of public investment insecondaryeducation, secondary schools can only make modest contribution to student learning with their limited resources.
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Those men and women aged 25-44 and living-apart-together had both spent a full year longer insecondaryeducationthan had those in co-residential relationships.
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The levelling process, through mobility of population andsecondaryeducation, has been disastrous for dialect.
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Of women who have had at least some experience ofsecondaryeducation40% would accept the four-child family and 66% would accept thefive-childfamily as ideal.
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Until at least the 1950s the education sector, particularlysecondaryeducation, formed the largest single source of demand for graduates.
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Many with early onset schizophrenia completedsecondaryeducation, but none completed the tertiary level.
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All except for three had completedsecondaryeducation.
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Mean age at first intercourse for married men and bachelors with higher orsecondaryeducationwas 17-7 years for both groups.
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Table 14 reveals a similar, though not as marked, trend for males with primary orsecondaryeducation.
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This falling percentage was due to the decreasing component of women withsecondaryeducationat the older ages.
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Many therefore aspire to completesecondaryeducationor benefit from vocational training, expect to be able to access treatment when sick, and so on.
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The hypothesis of zero correlation cannot be rejected for primary andsecondaryeducationand the exchange-rate volatility index at reasonable levels.
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So, we began to have interest sections, in adult education, elementary andsecondaryeducation, applied linguistics, and other areas.
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Agents differ in natural ability, the quality of their primary andsecondaryeducation, access to training programs and postsecondary institutions, and attitudes toward formal education.
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Although the effect of severe mental disorders was damaging to education, 60 % of subjects with mental disorders achieved uppersecondaryeducationand 8 % tertiary education.
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However, one neophyte did entertain notions of a durable allegiance tosecondaryeducation; regardless, she was retaining choices.
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Twenty-five years later selectivesecondaryeducationhad all but disappeared.
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