Educational terminology

[J.W.]

Ottawa (Canada), Tuesday 15/5/07 9h35 EDT

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     "Shrager, Miriam" <mshrage at INDIANA.EDU> wrote:

     Regarding "colledge", it is a college, but one that has a "lower" status than the university or an "Institute". ... Usually, those who want to be in academia don't study in a college. I think that this one is hard to translate because I don't know of an equivalent, say, in the USA for that. Hope it helps.

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(a) This is exactly the (at least, the most common) usage of the term 'college' in Canada, where, as a rule, only universities grant degrees, while colleges offer non-degree programmes, generally (but by no means limited to) technical and trade disciplines.
(b) But a 'college' can also be an institution within a university, the degree coming from the university, not the college.
(c) Finally, academia-bound pupils might well study in a 'college', as a prelude to university, in the sense of a privately-run secondary school.

I'd be interested to know whether either of these latter senses of 'college' has been attached to the Russian "kolledzh" (колледж).

(Mr) John Woodsworth
Certified Translator (Russian-English)
Website: http://www.kanadacha.ca
E-mail: jw at kanadacha.ca / vanya1v at yahoo.com

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