higher education noun2 •Education beyond a level viewed as basic, such as any beyond universal government-funded secondary education.He pursued various higher education via trade school and community college. •Education at a university level or beyond. (Often with more or less connotation of education that leads to higher rank in a hierarchy of social class.)For some, the goals of their higher education involved deep meaningfulness or the frontiers of knowledge; others aspired merely to elitism. Some were honest enough to admit to themselves that meaning, service, money, and class rank were all among their motives.
