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📚 noun • entry_id 30973

academia

/ˌæk.əˈdiː.mɪ.ə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mundo académico • ámbito académico
The scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and research, taken as a whole.
Academia continues to provide scientific education, despite attempts to turn it into a system of professional schooling.
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shak…
academia
Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.
Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.
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