College

A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offering vocational education, or a secondary school. A sixth form college or college of further education is an educational institution in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Belize, the Caribbean, Malta, Norway, Brunei, or Southern Africa. In Singapore and India, this is known as a junior college.

About College in brief

A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offering vocational education, or a secondary school. In Australia the term is applied to any private or independent primary and, especially, secondary school as distinct from a state school. A sixth form college or college of further education is an educational institution in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Belize, the Caribbean, Malta, Norway, Brunei, or Southern Africa. In Singapore and India, this is known as a junior college. The municipal government of the city of Paris uses the phrase ‘sixth form college’ as the English name for a lycée. In some national education systems, secondary schools may be called ‘colleges’ or have ‘college’ in their title. In the United States, ‘College’ and ‘university’ are used interchangeably, but generally ‘University’ is the more common term for a university. In many Canadian cities, many government-run secondary schools are called “collegiates” or ‘legiate institutes’. In New South Wales, some high schools, especially multi-campus schools resulting from mergers, are known as “secondary colleges”. In Queensland some schools which accept high school students are styled state college, but only state schools offering secondary education are called state high schools. In Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory, college refers to the final two years of high school.

This is because these schools have traditionally focused on academic, rather than vocational, ability levels. Here, the word is a shorter version of matriculation college, which is a more complicated form of the word “college.” In the UK, a college is a body created for that purpose, for example Eton College was founded in 1440 by letters patent of King Henry VI for the constitution of a college of Fellows, priests, clerks, choristers, poor scholars, and old poor men, with one master or governor, whose duty it shall be to instruct these scholars and any others who may resort thither from any part of England in the knowledge of letters, and especially of grammar, without payment. In South Africa, students aged 16 to 19 typically study for advanced school-level qualifications, such as A-levels, BTEC, HND or its equivalent and the International Baccalaureate Diploma, or school- level qualifications such as GCSEs. The term can be used to refer to: A-level college, a training institution that awards trade qualifications, a higher-education provider that does not have university status, or a constituent parts of a university. In the U.S. the term “ college” is used in the name of all state high Schools built since the late 1990s, and also some older ones. In Canada, some government schools have been renamed as ‘Colleges.’ In Australia, some state high. schools are referred to as secondary colleges.

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