Educarion or Learning

[Konstantin Dibrova]

Dear SEELANGERs,

The terms  an institution of higher EDUCATION" and  an institution of higher LEARNING" are used interchangeably in academic texts although the former is obviously more frequent. As no two linguistic units can have identical meaning and/or usage, the problem is to distinguish the terms semantically (if possible) and according to the stylistic register they belong to. This may be of particular interest considering the usage of the Russian "высшее учебное заведение" (fairly formal) and "вуз" (less formal; professional).   

Thanks in advance

Konstantin Dibrova,
Assoc. Professor,
St. Petersburg State University

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