Personal Background

Thematic Vocabulary Unit Nº 210 v.07

            Formation

1. formation 1 |n| the act or process of forming something or of taking form.
2. formation 2 |n| the process during which something develops or is created.
3. "Factors that affect the formation of children's personalities."
4. background 1 |n| a person's experience, training, and education.
5. "Her background in the arts is impressive."
6. background 2 |n| a person's social class, education, training, or experience.
7. "A religious background."
8. background 3 |n| the type of family, social position, or culture that someone comes from.
9. "We are looking for writers with a background in law."
10. background 4 |n| the type of career, training, or education that someone has had.
11. "His musical background helps him a lot in his job."
12. family |n| a group of people related by blood or marriage.
13. "They have a large family."

            Education

1. education 1 |n| system of teaching.
2. "Education is not compulsory after the age of 16."
3. education 2 |n| theory of teaching.
4. education 3 |n| knowledge acquired by learning and instruction.
5. "It was clear that he had a very broad education."
   
6. training 1 |n| the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behaviour)
7. "A woman of breeding and refinement."
8. training 2 |n| activity leading to skilled behavior.
9. training 3 |n| teach or refine to be discriminated in taste of judgement.
   
10. "Cultivate your musical taste."
11.  "He's training to be a teacher."
12. "Musical training."
13. upbringing 1 |n| properties acquired during a person's formative years.
    
14. upbringing 2 |n| the treatment and instruction received from one's parents throughout childhood.
15. "Her upbringing had given her the social skills to cope with such situations."
16. "They gave their children a strict Catholic upbringing."
    
17. scholarship |n| profound scholarly knowledge.
18. "A magnificent work of scholarship."
19. educational attainment refers to the highest level of education that an individual has completed.
20. attainment |n| a thing achieved, especially a skill or educational achievement.
21. "Participation also varies widely by age group and attainment level."
22. "When Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1987, the Swedish Academy cited among other attainments his ‘quite amazing mastery of the English idiom’."
23. educational attainment |n| the highest level of education that an individual has completed.
24. "Educational attainments are also deeply affected by poverty, with poor students more likely to be excluded from school and less likely to go on to university."
25. "He spoke of the low educational attainments of his workforce"."

            Education Levels

1. nursery/pre-school education |n| for children aged under 5.
2. "The funding will provide nursery education for all four-years-olds."
3. "Parents are beginning to wake up to the importance of pre-school education."
4. primary/elementary education |n| for children aged between 5 and 11.
   
5. "Elementary education in excellent in this area."
6. "Although he had had little formal education, he could read and write well."
7. "He was at a disadvantage because of the poor education he had received."
8. futher education 1 |n| |UK| education below degree level for people avobe school age.
9. secondary education |n| for children aged between 11 and 18.
10. "Where did he go to for his secondary education?"
11. "The school provides an excellent all-round education."
12. general higher education |n| the general higher education and training that takes place in a university, college, or Institute of Technology usually includes significant theoretical and abstract elements, as well as applied aspects (although limited offerings of internships or SURF programs attempt to provide practical applications).
    
13. "41% had some post-secondary education."
14. vocational higher education |n| the vocational higher education and training that takes place at vocational universities and schools usually concentrates on practical applications, with very little theory.
15. further education 2 |n| |US| Usually means any other education after secondary school. It can mean study at college, or any study towards a professional qualification, and it can have a meaning similar to that of adult education or continuing education, i.e. something that people do after completing their main eduction, often for personal interest and satisfaction.
    
16. tertiary education |n| the general higher education and training that takes place in a university, college, or Institute of Technology usually includes significant theoretical and abstract elements, as well as applied aspects (although limited offerings of internships or SURF programs attempt to provide practical applications). (La educación superior en general y la formación que se lleva a cabo en una universidad, colegio o Instituto de Tecnología incluye generalmente elementos teóricos y abstractos importantes, así como los aspectos aplicados (a pesar de las ofertas limitadas de pasantías o programas SURF intentan proporcionar aplicaciones prácticas))
    
17. "Will she go on to higher education."
    
18. college/university education |n| Higher education is an educational level that follows a completion of a school providing a secondary education.  Tertiary education is normally taken to include undergraduate and postgraduate education, as well as vocational education and training. Colleges, universities, and institutes of technology are the main institutions that provide tertiary education. In addition, professional-level education is always included within Higher Education, and usually in graduate schools, since many postgraduate academic disciplines are both vocationally, professionally, and theoretically/research oriented, such as in the law, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and veterinary medicine. A basic requirement for entry into these graduate-level programs is almost always a bachelor's degree. Requirements for admission to such high-level graduate programs is extremely competitive, and admitted students are expected to perform well.
19. "In those days it was very difficult for poorer people to get a university education."
20. "After four years of high school, Sarah selected the University of Kentucky to complete her universitary education among other proposals from universities like Notre Dame, Purdue or Tennessee."
21. "She brought up two children while pursuing a college education."

  

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1. drop out |n| abandon a course of study.
2. "She had dropped out of college."
3. "But neither finished university - Gates dropped out of Harvard in his second year while Jobs studied calligraphy for six months."

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