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Academic tenure
Academic tenure is an indefinite higher-education faculty appointment terminable only for cause or extraordinary circumstances such as financial exigency. Defined by the 1940 AAUP/AAC&U Statement, it protects academic freedom; about 21-23% of US faculty hold it.
AIESEC
AIESEC, originally the International Association of Students in Economics and Business Management, is a youth-run nonprofit founded in 1948 that builds leadership through international internships and volunteer exchanges.
Anand Kumar (आनंद कुमार)
Anand Kumar (आनंद कुमार), born 1973 in Patna, is the Indian mathematics educator who founded Super 30 in 2002 with Abhayanand, coaching 30 poor students yearly free for the IIT entrance exam; Padma Shri 2023, subject of the film Super 30, and of 2018 fraud litigation.
Bachelor of Education
Bachelor of Education (B.Ed., BEd): undergraduate teacher-preparation degree combining subject study, education sciences, pedagogy, and school practice; lengths range from 3 years (Germany) to 5 (Hong Kong), with honours and alternative-certification variants worldwide.
Bright Futures Scholarship Program
Florida's Bright Futures Scholarship Program is a lottery-funded merit scholarship created in 1997, offering Florida Academic Scholars and Medallion Scholars awards (plus vocational tiers) to state high school graduates.
Bursary
Bursary: non-repayable student financial aid awarded mainly on financial need, distinct from merit-based scholarships and government grants; covers UK 16-19 and NHS schemes, Ireland's 1916 Bursary, NSFAS, and OECD support systems.
Confucius Institute
Confucius Institute (孔子学院), China's university-hosted Chinese language and culture centers founded in 2004 under Hanban, reorganized into CIEF and CLEC in 2020; over 500 existed worldwide by 2018, but nearly all U.S. institutes have since closed.
Continuing education
Continuing education: organized adult learning beyond initial degrees, rooted in 19th-century university extension (Cambridge 1873, Oxford 1878) and the 1914 Smith-Lever Act; today spans CEUs, professional education, and micro-credentials.
Crimson Education
Crimson Education, also called Crimson, is a New Zealand-founded (2013) university admissions consultancy and edtech company led by Jamie Beaton, known for team-based admissions packages, Crimson Global Academy, Crimson Rise, and EY-verified offer counts.
Criticism of Wikipedia
Criticism of Wikipedia covers accuracy disputes (Nature 2005 vs Britannica), political and systemic bias, vandalism, hoaxes, AI-generated content, and its general rejection as an academic citation source.
Curriculum vitae
Curriculum vitae (CV), Latin for "course of one's life": a document summarizing education and professional history. US academic record versus European résumé equivalent; Europass format; structure, history, and evaluation bias.
Deemed university
Deemed university (Institution Deemed to be University) is an Indian higher-education institution declared a university under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956 by Central Government notification on UGC advice; 161 exist, governed by the UGC Deemed Universities Regulations 2023.
Dhondo Keshav Karve (धोंडो केशव कर्वे)
Dhondo Keshav Karve (धोंडो केशव कर्वे), Maharshi Karve, Anna (1858–1962), Indian social reformer and educator for women's welfare. Founded the Anath Balikashram at Hingne (1896) and India's first women's university (1916, now SNDT); married a widow in 1893; Bharat Ratna 1958.
Education in Russia
Education in Russia is a state-governed, largely public system serving 32.9 million learners, covering preschool, general (4+5+2), vocational, and higher education under Federal Law 273-FZ of 2012.
Eleazar Wheelock
Eleazar Wheelock (1711–1779), Congregational minister of Lebanon, Connecticut, founded Moor's Indian Charity School in 1754 and Dartmouth College in 1769, its first president, funded by Samson Occom's £12,000 British fundraising tour, and enslaver of at least 17 people.
Federal Work-Study Program
The Federal Work-Study Program, or FWS, is a U.S. federal student aid program offering part-time jobs to students with financial need, created in 1964 and administered by colleges.
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation, a 1936 Edsel Ford creation distinct from Ford Philanthropy, is a major US private foundation with an $18 billion endowment funding inequality-reduction grants, BUILD, IFP fellowships, and PRIs, now led by Heather Gerken.
Gap year
Gap year: a break from formal education, usually an academic year taken around age 18 before university; a British invention with Grand Tour roots, structured programs costing $390 to $36,000, and mixed matched-study academic outcomes.
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship: annual award of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (founded 1925 by Simon and Olga Guggenheim), giving mid-career scholars and artists six-to-twelve-month stipends for independent work; about 190 awards yearly.
Higher education accreditation
Higher education accreditation: external quality review of colleges and programs. In the U.S. run by private accreditors (19 institutional, ~63 programmatic) recognized by ED/CHEA, gating federal aid; reformed by Executive Order 14279 (2025).
Higher education in Japan
Higher education in Japan, or tertiary education in Japan, is the post-secondary system of universities, junior colleges, and colleges of technology overseen by the education ministry, MEXT.
Higher National Diploma
Higher National Diploma (HND): UK vocational higher education award at RQF Level 5 (SCQF 8), equivalent to the first two years of a bachelor's degree, top-up route to honours, and an approved higher technical qualification (HTQ).
Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity integrates knowledge, methods, and perspectives from multiple disciplines to address problems too complex for one field, distinct from multidisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity; term coined early 20th century by the Social Science Research Council.
John Erskine (educator)
John Erskine (1879–1951), Columbia professor of English and Juilliard's first president, created the 1920 General Honors course, the first American great-books course and ancestor of Columbia's Literature Humanities.
Khâgne
Khâgne: informal French name for the second year (officially Première supérieure) of the literary classes préparatoires, after hypokhâgne; A/L and B/L tracks preparing for ENS, IEP, and business-school concours.
Khan Sir (खान सर)
Khan Sir (खान सर), Faizal Khan, is a Patna-based educator and YouTuber who founded Khan GS Research Centre and Khan Global Studies, known for low-fee coaching and Hindi teaching; subject of 2026 FIR and coaching rivalry controversies.
Languages of science
Languages of science: the vehicular languages of research, from Arabic and Latin through French, German, and English to today's Global English, including German's WWI-era collapse, publishing share trends, and inequities for non-native speakers.
Laura Spelman Rockefeller
Laura Spelman Rockefeller (1839–1915) was an American teacher, abolitionist, and wife of John D. Rockefeller Sr.; Spelman College and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, the 1920s' leading social science funder, bear her name.
Letter of recommendation
Letter of recommendation (reference letter): a statement of support for a candidate's employment, education, or funding. Distinguished by narrative advocacy, documented inflation, racial and gender bias patterns, and standardized alternatives.
Liberal arts education
Liberal arts education: broad higher education across humanities, sciences, and social sciences, rooted in the classical trivium and quadrivium, centered in American colleges, with documented labor market and job-quality outcomes.