 "College
(Latin:
collegium)
is a term most often used today in Ireland and
the United States to denote a
degree-awarding
tertiary
educational institution
and in other English-speaking countries to refer
to a secondary school in private educational
systems. More broadly, it can refer to any group
of colleagues, such as an
electoral college,
a
College of Arms
or the
College of Cardinals.
Originally, it meant a group of
persons
living together, under a common set of
rules
(con-
= "together" + leg-
= "law" or lego
= "I choose"); indeed, some colleges call their
members "fellows".
The precise usage of the term varies among the
English-speaking countries. In the United States
and Ireland, for example, the terms "college"
and "university"
may be regarded as loosely interchangeable,
whereas in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia
and other
Commonwealth countries,
a "college" is usually an institution between
school and university level (although
constituent schools
within universities
are sometimes known as "colleges"). In French, a
"collège" refers both to 4 years of middle
school and to a general concept of
sharing an institution,
and in the
Commonwealth countries,
some older private primary and secondary schools
retain this sense of the word (for example,
Eton College)."Source:
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