Cursos médios, pós-secundários e superiores

English translation: high school, postsecondary/pre-university, and university degrees

10:05 Dec 9, 2004
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Portuguese term or phrase: Cursos médios, pós-secundários e superiores
Os concursos destinam-se a titulares de cursos médios, pós-secundários e superiores.
Maria Guimar�es
English translation:high school, postsecondary/pre-university, and university degrees
Explanation:
The translation should resemble this: "The competitive selection process is open to holders of high school, postsecondary/pre-university, and university degrees".

The Future of Children - Sub-Sections... ISSUE: Children of Immigrant Families ARTICLE: Preparing Diverse Adolescents for the Transition to Adulthood High School and Postsecondary Degrees (3 of 12) ...
www.futureofchildren.org/information2827/ information_show.htm?doc_id=241560 - 18k - Cached - Similar pages

Figure 4.—Percentage of 1995–96 beginning postsecondary degree ...Figure 4.—Percentage of 1995–96 beginning postsecondary degree seekers who had not attained any degree and were not enrolled in 1998, by initial degree ...
nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/2002/ analyses/nontraditional/figures/fig04.asp - 10k - Cached - Similar pages

Fisheries Center Student Pages
... ecology. Before that, he lived in Switzerland, where he received a pre-university
degree and high-school degree in "pure sciences.". ...
www.fisheries.ubc.ca/students/ocheneval/ - 23k - Cached - Similar pages

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Deolindo
Angola
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airmailrpl
4Further Education/Higher Education
Paula Vaz-Carreiro
4high school, postsecondary/pre-university, and university degrees
Deolindo


  

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Cursos médios, pós-secundários e superiores
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Explanation:
Cursos médios => high school
pós-secundários => after high school
superiores => college courses..college level courses

airmailrpl
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Cursos médios, pós-secundários e superiores
Further Education/Higher Education


Explanation:
In UK:

Cursos médios = Further Education (FE) [colleges]
pós-secundários = same as above: Further Education (FE) [colleges]
superiores = Higher Education (HE) [university degrees, masters, etc]

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Note added at 2 hrs 7 mins (2004-12-09 12:13:43 GMT)
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These days HE is also provided by colleges as well as by universities.


Paula Vaz-Carreiro
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Cursos médios, pós-secundários e superiores
high school, postsecondary/pre-university, and university degrees


Explanation:
The translation should resemble this: "The competitive selection process is open to holders of high school, postsecondary/pre-university, and university degrees".

The Future of Children - Sub-Sections... ISSUE: Children of Immigrant Families ARTICLE: Preparing Diverse Adolescents for the Transition to Adulthood High School and Postsecondary Degrees (3 of 12) ...
www.futureofchildren.org/information2827/ information_show.htm?doc_id=241560 - 18k - Cached - Similar pages

Figure 4.—Percentage of 1995–96 beginning postsecondary degree ...Figure 4.—Percentage of 1995–96 beginning postsecondary degree seekers who had not attained any degree and were not enrolled in 1998, by initial degree ...
nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/2002/ analyses/nontraditional/figures/fig04.asp - 10k - Cached - Similar pages

Fisheries Center Student Pages
... ecology. Before that, he lived in Switzerland, where he received a pre-university
degree and high-school degree in "pure sciences.". ...
www.fisheries.ubc.ca/students/ocheneval/ - 23k - Cached - Similar pages



Deolindo
Angola
Native speaker of: Portuguese
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