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continuing education
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con·tin·u·ing education (kn-tny-ng)
n.
1. An instructional program that brings participants up to date in a particular area of knowledge or skills.
2. Instructional courses designed especially for part-time adult students.
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Noun1.continuing education - a program of instruction designed primarily for adult students who participate part-time
didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy, teaching - the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruction was carefully programmed"; "good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded"
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continuing education [kənˈtɪnjuːɪŋɛdjʊˈkeɪʃn] ncorsi mpl per adulti


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He graduated from Boston English High School and attended Harvard University Extension School (Liberal Arts).
During his tenure with Evergreen, he studied real estate finance at the Harvard Extension School.
Often there is either a division or a school of continuing education, which is also at times given names such as university extension or extension school.
 
 
 
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