Female education is a catch-all term for a complex set of issues and debates surrounding education for girls and women. It is frequently called girls' education or women's education. It includes areas of gender equality and access to education. The education of women and girls is important for the alleviation of poverty. Broader related topics include single-sex education and religious education for women, in which education is divided along gender lines.
Schoolgirls in Guinea
London Mission Bengali Girls' School, Calcutta (LMS, 1869, p.12)
A girls' college in Palakkad, India
Girls' class in Afghanistan, 2002
Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education. The World Bank, for example, defines tertiary education as including universities as well as trade schools and colleges. Higher education is taken to include undergraduate and postgraduate education, while vocational education beyond secondary education is known as further education in the United Kingdom, or included under the category of continuing education in the United States.
Students attend a linear algebra lecture at a tertiary institution: Helsinki University of Technology
Deakin University, one of Australia's 43 universities
The University of Pennsylvania, an American research university
University of Bologna, established in AD 1088, is the world's oldest university in continuous operation.
