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| x Grammar school |
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The Skinners' School |
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries. In recent times these schools have provided secondary education.
The original purpose of medieval...
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| King Edward VI Grammar School | |||
| Dr Challoner's Grammar School | |||
| Aylesbury Grammar School | |||
| Bradford Grammar School | |||
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| x Private school |
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St Paul's |
Private schools, also known as independent schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition, rather than...
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| Stetson University | |||
| French American International School | |||
| Concordia College, Adelaide | |||
| St Leonards College | |||
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| x Catholic school |
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St. Joseph Parish School |
Catholic schools are education ministries of the Roman Catholic Church. Presently, the Church operates the world's largest non-governmental school system. These schools aim to develop their students through participation in the sacramental life of...
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| St. James Academy | |||
| St Peter's Primary School | |||
| Kanisius | |||
| St Joseph the Worker Elementry School | |||
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| x Voluntary aided school | Lawrence Sheriff School |
A voluntary aided school is a state-funded school in England and Wales in which a foundation or trust (often a religious organisation) contributes to building costs and has a substantial influence in the running of the school.
Prior to the 19th...
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| Adams' Grammar School | |||
| St Olave's Grammar School | |||
| The Judd School | |||
| London Oratory School | |||
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| x International school | Morrison Christian Academy |
An International school is loosely defined as a school that promotes international education, either by adopting an international curriculum such as that of the International Baccalaureate, or by following a national curriculum different from that...
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| United Nations International School | |||
| International School of Havana | |||
| Australian International School Hong Kong | |||
| Lucaya International School | |||
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| x Upper school | Castle Manor Business & Enterprise College |
Upper Schools tend to be schools within secondary education. Outside England, the term normally refers to a section of a larger school. There is some variation in the use of the term in England.
Upper Schools are a type of secondary school found in...
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| x Specialist school | Institute of Classical Studies |
The specialist schools programme is a UK government initiative which encourages secondary schools in England to specialise in certain areas of the curriculum to boost achievement. The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust is responsible for the...
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| Institute of English Studies | |||
| Institute of Philosophy | |||
| x Boarding school |
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Atlantic College |
A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board", that is, food and lodging. Most...
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| Rugby School | |||
| Harrow School | |||
| Charterhouse School | |||
| Adams' Grammar School | |||
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| x Charter school |
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George Walton Comprehensive High School |
Charter schools are elementary or secondary schools in the United States that receive public money but have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools in exchange for some type of accountability...
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| Highland Tech High School | |||
| Doctors Charter School of Miami Shores | |||
| Mater Academy Charter High School | |||
| Baltimore Freedom Academy | |||
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| x Grant-maintained school | Northampton School For Boys |
Grant-maintained schools were state schools in England and Wales between 1988 and 1998 that had opted out of local government control, being funded directly by a grant from central government.
Grant-maintained status was created by the Education...
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| x Direct Subsidy Scheme | St. Paul's College, Hong Kong |
The Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) is instituted by the Education Bureau of Hong Kong as a means to enhance the quality of private schools in Hong Kong at the kindergarten, primary, and secondary levels. The Hong Kong government encourages non...
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| St. Paul's Co-educational College | |||
| Diocesan Girls' School | |||
| x Public high school |
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Galileo Academy of Science and Technology |
A public high school is a secondary school that is financed by tax revenues and other government-collected revenues, and administered exclusively by, and at the discretion of, state and local officials. The modifier "high", as applied to the noun ...
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| Bloomfield High School | |||
| George Nelson Tremper High School | |||
| Captain Shreve High School | |||
| Princeton High School | |||
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| x Day school | Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School |
A day school—as opposed to a boarding school—is an institution where children are given educational instruction during the day and after which children return to their homes. The term can also be used to emphasize the length of full-day programs as...
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| Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood | |||
| Sydney Grammar School | |||
| Cheltenham College | |||
| Trinity Grammar School, New South Wales | |||
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| x Single-sex school | Kanisius |
A single-sex school is a school that accepts boy or girl exclusively. This has been the traditional situation for independent school, especially public school and grammar school in the United Kingdom, but many of these have now become coeducational....
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| Penrhos College, Perth | |||
| Christ Church Grammar School | |||
| Methodist Ladies' College, Perth | |||
| Guildford Grammar School | |||
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| x Alternative school |
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Berkeley Alternative High School Program |
An alternative school (sometimes called a minischool), is an educational establishment with a curriculum and methods that are nontraditional, or sometimes ultratraditional. These schools have a special curriculum offering a more flexible program of...
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| Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts | |||
| MIND | |||
| Preshil | |||
| Independence High School | |||
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| x Independent school | Greenhills School |
An independent school in the United Kingdom is a school that is not financed by taxpayers or through the taxation system by local or national government, and is instead funded by private sources, predominantly in the form of tuition charges, gifts...
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| Berkwood Hedge School | |||
| Dulwich College | |||
| Marlborough College | |||
| Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School | |||
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| x Special school |
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Ravenscroft School |
A special school is a school catering to students who have special educational needs due to severe learning difficulties or physical disabilities. Special schools may be specifically designed, staffed and resourced to provide the appropriate special...
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| Park School | |||
| Furze Down School | |||
| Alfriston School | |||
| Mary Hare Grammar School | |||
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| x Sixth form college |
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Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College |
A sixth form college is an educational institution in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Hong Kong or Malta where students aged 16 to 19 typically study for advanced school-level qualifications, such as A-levels. In Singapore and India, this is known...
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| Greenhead College | |||
| Alton College | |||
| Aquinas College, Stockport | |||
| New College, Telford | |||
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| x Foundation school | Kings of Wessex School |
In England and Wales, a foundation school is a state-funded school in which a foundation or trust has some formal influence in the running of the school. Foundation schools were set up under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 to replace...
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| King Edward VI Grammar School | |||
| Slough Grammar School | |||
| Colchester Royal Grammar School | |||
| The Crypt School, Gloucester | |||
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| x Parochial school | Marian Central Catholic High School |
Parochial school is one term used to describe a school that engages in religious education in addition to conventional education. In a narrow sense, parochial schools are Christian grammar schools or high schools run by parishes, but this...
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| Peoria Notre Dame High School | |||
| Iona Preparatory School | |||
| St. Andrew's School Parañaque | |||
| Salesian High School | |||
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| x State school | Viadrina European University |
State school is an expression used in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom to distinguish schools provided by the government from privately run schools.
In the United Kingdom, the term, state school, refers to government...
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| Boğaziçi University | |||
| Royal High School | |||
| Frome Community College | |||
| Kings of Wessex School | |||
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| x Selective school |
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Ryde Secondary College |
Selective schools in New South Wales, Australia are most commonly government high schools operated by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training, that have accepted their students based upon their academic merit. Each year,...
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| Sydney Technical High School | |||
| Smith's Hill High School | |||
| St. George Girls' High School | |||
| Gosford High School | |||
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| x Alternative high school |
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Paradise Creek Regional High School |
In education, the phrase alternative high school, sometimes referred to as a minischool, is "any junior high school, high school, senior high school, or secondary school having a special curriculum offering a more flexible program of study than a...
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| x Voluntary controlled school | Aylesbury Grammar School |
In a voluntary controlled school is a state-funded school in England and Wales in which a foundation or trust (usually a Christian denomination) has some formal influence in the running of the school.
Prior to the Education Act 1944, voluntary...
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| William Parker Sports College | |||
| Royal Latin School | |||
| Robert May's School | |||
| De Aston School | |||
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| x Public university |
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University of Michigan |
A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. A national university may or may not be considered a public university, depending on...
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| University of Karlsruhe | |||
| University of North Texas | |||
| Mississippi State University | |||
| Concordia University | |||
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| x University |
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Stanford University |
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education. The word university is derived from the Latin...
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| Tel Aviv University | |||
| Brown University | |||
| Brandeis University | |||
| Harvard University | |||
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| x Business school |
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UCLA Anderson |
A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, public relations, strategy, human resource...
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| Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School | |||
| Tepper School of Business | |||
| ESADE | |||
| London Business School | |||
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| x Private | The Dalton School | ||
| Stanford Graduate School of Business | |||
| California Institute of Technology | |||
| x Coeducation | University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
Mixed-sex education (also known as coeducation), is the integrated education of males and females in the same institution. The opposite situation is described as single-sex education. Most older institutions of higher education restricted their...
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| St Leonards College | |||
| California Institute of Technology | |||
| Saint Ambrose University | |||
| Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | |||
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| x Public junior high school | Bloomfield Junior High School | ||
| x Public middle school | Carmen Arace Middle School | ||
| Glen Hills Middle School | |||
| Martin Luther King Middle School | |||
| Willard Middle School | |||
| Mt. Ararat Middle School | |||
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| x Public elementary school | Laurel School | ||
| Wintonbury School | |||
| Bowen Island Community School | |||
| North Star Elementary School | |||
| Általános Iskola Diósjenő | |||
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| x Research |
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National University of Singapore |
Research is defined as human activity based on intellectual application in the investigation of matter. The primary purpose for applied research is discovering, interpreting, and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human...
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |||
| MIT Center for Theoretical Physics | |||
| Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | |||
| Indian Institute of Science | |||
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| x Private | University of Notre Dame | ||
| x female undergraduate institution | Mount Holyoke College | ||
| x Special college | College for Social Theory | ||
| x Liberal arts college |
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Stetson University |
Liberal arts colleges are primarily colleges with an emphasis upon undergraduate study in the liberal arts. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise defines "liberal arts" as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and...
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| Skidmore College | |||
| State University of New York at Morrisville | |||
| Grinnell College | |||
| Reed College | |||
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| x Law school |
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Stetson University College of Law |
A law school (also known as a school of law or college of law) is an institution specializing in legal education.
Law school in the United States is a postgraduate level program which lasts three years and results in the awarding of the Juris Doctor...
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| University of Minnesota Law School | |||
| Charleston School of Law | |||
| Pacific Coast University | |||
| University of South Carolina School of Law | |||
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| x Library and Information Science | School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London | ||
| UIUC Graduate School of Library and Information Science | |||
| Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kerala | |||
| Institute of Library and Information Science, University of the Philippines, Diliman | |||
| College of Information, Florida State University | |||
| x Private High School | International High School | ||
| Stevenson School | |||
| Winchester College | |||
| Archbishop Carroll High School | |||
| Puskás Tivadar Távközlési Technikum | |||
| x Research I university | University of California, Santa Cruz |
Research I university was a category previously used by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education to indicate those universities that engaged in extensive research activity.
In the 1994 edition of the Carnegie Classification,...
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| x Private university | University of Southern California |
Private universities are not operated by governments though they may or may not receive funding (depending upon the nation and university). Depending on the region, private universities may be subject to government regulation. Private universities...
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| Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Michigan | |||
| Trinity University | |||
| Rice University | |||
| Liberty University | |||
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| x Technical school | State University of New York at Morrisville |
Technical school is a general term used for two-year college which provide mostly employment-preparation skills for trained labor, such as welding, culinary arts and office management.
The Association for Career and Technical Education is the...
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| Manipal Institute of Technology | |||
| Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art | |||
| Benson Polytechnic High School | |||
| IsquareIT | |||
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| x Graduate school | MIT Center for Theoretical Physics |
A graduate school (or grad school) is a school that awards advanced academic degrees, such as doctoral degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate (bachelor's) degree. Many universities award graduate...
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |||
| Naval Postgraduate School | |||
| Interactive Telecommunications Program | |||
| Haas School of Business | |||
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| x Public Land Grant University | University of Idaho | ||
| Clemson University | |||
| Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University | |||
| Auburn University | |||
| Tuskegee University | |||
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| x Community college |
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Santa Rosa Junior College |
A community college is a type of educational institution. The term can have different meanings in different countries.
In the United States, community colleges, sometimes called junior colleges, technical colleges, or city colleges, are primarily...
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| Nova Scotia Community College | |||
| Swedish Institute | |||
| Leeward Community College | |||
| San Diego Mesa College | |||
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| x Secondary education | University High School |
Secondary education is the stage of education following primary school. Secondary education is generally the final stage of compulsory education. However, secondary education in some countries includes a period of compulsory and a period of non...
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| Apopka High School | |||
| Gompers Secondary | |||
| Goois Lyceum | |||
| Woodstock High School | |||
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| x Secondary school |
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Christ's College Finchley |
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of compulsory schooling, known as secondary education, takes place. It follows on from primary or elementary education.
There are many different types of...
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| North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics | |||
| Woodstock High School | |||
| Atlantic College | |||
| Lowell High School | |||
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| x Cambridge College | Robinson College, Cambridge | ||
| x Agricultural science |
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State University of New York at Morrisville |
Agricultural science is a broad multidisciplinary field that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture. (Veterinary science, but not animal science, is often...
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| x Military academy |
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United States Coast Guard Academy |
A military academy or service academy (in American English) is an educational institution which prepares candidates for service in the officer corps of the Army, the Navy, Air Force or Coast Guard or provides education in a service environment, the...
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| United States Merchant Marine Academy | |||
| Virginia Military Institute | |||
| Royal Military College of Canada | |||
| Royal Roads Military College | |||
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| x Electrical engineering |
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The precise meaning of the term electrical engineering is not universally agreed upon. In some parts of the world, it is considered to be the most general of the electricity-related engineering disciplines, with electronics engineering being a...
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| x Collegiate university |
A collegiate university is a university whose functions are divided between the central administration of the university and a number of constituent colleges.
A collegiate university differs from a centralized university in that its colleges are not...
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| x Vocational school |
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DigiPen Institute of Technology |
A vocational school (or trade school or career school), providing vocational education, is a school in which students are taught the skills needed to perform a particular job. Traditionally, vocational schools have not existed to further education...
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| School of Communication Arts | |||
| Pinnacle Career Institute | |||
| Bergen County Technical High School | |||
| Watchman Institute | |||
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| x Vocational university | The Hague University |
A vocational university (professional university, or college of higher vocational studies) is an institution of higher education and sometimes research, which provides both tertiary and sometimes quaternary education and grants academic degrees at...
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| Mannheim University of Applied Sciences | |||
| Bow Valley College | |||
| x College |
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Black Mountain College |
College (Latin: collegium) is a term most often used today to denote degree awarding tertiary educational institution. More broadly, it can be the name of any group of colleagues, for example, an electoral college, a College of Arms or the College...
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| Hampshire College | |||
| UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources | |||
| Art Center College of Design | |||
| Northern Lights College | |||
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| x High school |
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Garden City High School |
High school is the name used in some parts of the world (in particular the United Kingdom, Northern America and also Oceania) to describe an institution which provides all or part of secondary education. The term "high school" originated in Scotland...
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| Georgetown District High School | |||
| Alabama School of Mathematics and Science | |||
| Sheldon High School | |||
| Aiea High School | |||
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| x Primary school |
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Verda Dierzen Early Learning Center |
A primary school (from French école primaire) is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as primary or elementary education. Primary school is the preferred term in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth...
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| Lena Whitmore Elementary School | |||
| J Russell Elementary School | |||
| St Matthew's Primary School | |||
| Ashtree Primary School | |||
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| x Middle school | Creekside Middle School |
Middle school or junior high school serves as a "bridge" between elementary school and high school. The terms can be used in different ways in different countries, sometimes interchangeably. In Chinese language, especially China, Taiwan and Hong...
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| American School Foundation | |||
| Petaluma Junior High School | |||
| Keystone School | |||
| Chippewa Middle School | |||
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| x Visual arts |
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Departamento de Artes Plásticas do Instituto de Artes da Unicamp |
The visual arts are art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking. Those that involve three-dimensional objects, such as sculpture and...
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