College

The word "college" is from the Latin verb lego, legere, legi, lectum, "to collect, gather together, pick", plus the preposition cum, "with",[4] thus meaning "selected together".

The municipal government of the city of Paris uses the phrase "sixth form college" as the English name for a lycée.

Private schools that specialize in improving children's marks through intensive focus on examination needs are informally called "cram-colleges".

In Sri Lanka the word "college" (known as Vidyalaya in Sinhala) normally refers to a secondary school, which usually signifies above the 5th standard.

[citation needed] As well as an educational institution, the term, in accordance with its etymology, may also refer to any formal group of colleagues set up under statute or regulation; often under a Royal Charter.

They are collegiate-level institutions that a student typically enrols in if they wish to continue onto university in the Quebec education system,[note 1] or to learn a trade.

The institution is a full-fledged university, with the authority to issue graduate degrees, although it continues to word the term college in its name.

A number of post-secondary art schools in Canada formerly used the word college in their names, despite formally being universities.

Officially, since 2009, the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile incorporated the term "college" as the name of a tertiary education program as a bachelor's degree.

[16] But in Chile, the term "college" is not usually used for tertiary education, but is used mainly in the name of some private bilingual schools, corresponding to levels 0, 1 and 2 of the ISCED 2011.

The word and its derivatives are the standard terms used to describe the institutions and experiences associated with American post-secondary undergraduate education.

Some borrow the money via loans, and some students fund their educations with cash, scholarships, grants, or some combination of these payment methods.

For state-owned schools (called "public" universities), the subsidy was given to the college, with the student benefiting from lower tuition.

Until the 20th century, liberal arts, law, medicine, theology, and divinity were about the only form of higher education available in the United States.

While there is no national standard in the United States, the term "university" primarily designates institutions that provide undergraduate and graduate education.

A university typically has as its core and its largest internal division an undergraduate college teaching a liberal arts curriculum, also culminating in a bachelor's degree.

The term college is also, as in the United Kingdom, used for a constituent semi-autonomous part of a larger university but generally organized on academic rather than residential lines.

The small institutions they founded would not have seemed to them like universities – they were tiny and did not offer the higher degrees in medicine and theology.

Instead, the new institutions felt like the Oxford and Cambridge colleges they were used to – small communities, housing and feeding their students, with instruction from residential tutors (as in the United Kingdom, described above).

The first Missionary institution to impart Western style education in India was the Scottish Church College, Calcutta (1830).

Also, some significant changes can pave way under the NEP (New Education Policy 2020) which may affect the present guidelines for universities and colleges.

In Turkey, the term "kolej" (college) refers to a private high school, typically preceded by one year of preparatory language education.

Alternatively, with lower grades, the GCE certificate holders will have an added advantage over their GCSE counterparts if they choose to enroll at a polytechnical college.

These institutions have delegated authority which entitles them to give degrees and diplomas from Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) in their own names.

A number of private colleges exist such as Dublin Business School, providing undergraduate and postgraduate courses validated by QQI and in some cases by other universities.

These are specialist institutions, often linked to a university, which provide both undergraduate and postgraduate academic degrees for people who want to train as teachers.

These degrees and diplomas are often certified by foreign universities/international awarding bodies and are aligned to the National Framework of Qualifications at Levels 6, 7 and 8.

[11] Presently in Portugal, the term colégio (college) is normally used as a generic reference to a private (non-government) school that provides from basic to secondary education.

The term colégio interno (literally "internal college") is used specifically as a generic reference to a boarding school.

Many colleges have strong traditions and rituals, so are a combination of dormitory style accommodation and fraternity or sorority culture.