Definition of "secondary education" [secondary education]

• Education of children that follows primary education and leads to either employment or college / university education (noun)

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• "The number enrolled in the College Department proper has always been small, owing to the limited opportunities for secondary education in the State, but the graduates and former pupils have a high record of usefulness."
• "He held other official positions: inspector-general of secondary education (1857); member (1862) and later (1876) president of the Bureau des"
• "Gammon has always endeavored to secure college men, but, like other schools in the South, it has suffered from the woeful lack of opportunities for primary and secondary education in connection with the public school systems."