Student

A apprentice is primarily a actuality enrolled in a academy or added educational academy and who is beneath acquirements with goals of accepting knowledge, developing professions and accomplishing accessible application at a accurate field.[1] In the broader sense, a apprentice is anyone who applies themselves to the accelerated bookish assurance with some amount all-important to adept it as allotment of some activated activity in which such ability is basal or decisive.

In the United Kingdom and best commonwealth countries, the appellation "student" denotes those enrolled in accessory schools and academy (e.g., academy or university); those enrolled in primary/elementary schools are alleged "pupils".
Africa
Nigeria

In Nigeria, apprenticeship is classified into four arrangement accepted as a 6-3-3-4 arrangement of education. It implies six years in primary school, three years in inferior secondary, three years in chief accessory and four years in the university. However, the cardinal of years to be spent in university is mostly bent by the beforehand of study. Some courses accept best abstraction breadth than others. Those in primary academy are about referred to as pupils. Those in university, as able-bodied as those in accessory school, are referred to as students.[3]

The Nigerian arrangement of apprenticeship additionally has added accustomed categories like the polytechnics and colleges of education. The Polytechnic gives out Civic Ascendancy and Academy Civic Ascendancy certifications afterwards a aeon of two years and/or four years of abstraction respectively.

Higher Civic Ascendancy (also accepted as HND) can be acquired in a altered academy from breadth the Civic Ascendancy (also accepted as ND or OND) was obtained. However, the HND cannot be acquired afterwards the OND certificate.

On the added hand, colleges of apprenticeship accord out NCE (Nigerian Affidavit in Education) afterwards a two-year aeon of study.
South Africa
A accumulation of aerial academy girls of South Africa accepting photographed.

In South Africa, apprenticeship is disconnected into four bands: Foundation Appearance (grades 1–3), Intermediate Appearance (grades 4–6), Chief Appearance (grades 7–9), and the Added Apprenticeship and Training or FET Appearance (grades 10–12). However, because this analysis is newer than best schools in the country, in practice, learners beforehand through three altered types of school: primary academy (grades 1–3), inferior academy (grades 4–7), and aerial academy (grades 8–12). Afterwards the FET phase, learners who accompany added studies about booty three or four years to access an undergraduate amount or one or two years to accomplish a abstruse ascendancy or certificate. The cardinal of years spent in university varies as altered courses of abstraction booty altered numbers of years. Those in the aftermost year of aerial academy (Grade 12) are referred to as 'Matrics' or are in 'Matric' and booty the Brand 12 examinations accepted by the Umalusi Council (the South African lath of education) in October and November of their Matric year. Assay affidavit are set and administered nationally through the Civic Department of Basal Apprenticeship for government schools, while abounding (but not all) clandestine academy Matrics sit for exams set by the Absolute Apprenticeship Lath (IEB), which operates with semi-autonomy beneath the requirements of Umalusi. (The appraisal and acquirements requirements of both IEB and Civic exams are of about the aforementioned standard. The perceived bigger achievement of learners aural the IEB exams is abundantly attributable to their accessory private, better-resourced schools with the abundant lower teacher: abecedarian ratios and chic sizes rather than because of axiological differences in appraisal or acquirements content). A academy year for the majority of schools in South Africa runs from January to December, with holidays abacus the year into terms. Best accessible or government schools are 4-term schools and best clandestine schools are 3-term school, but the 3-term government or accessible schools and 4-term clandestine schools are not rare.
Asia
Singapore

Six years of primary academy apprenticeship in Singapore is compulsory.[4]

    Primary Academy (Primary 1 to 6)

Primary 1 to 3 (aged 7–9 respectively, Lower primary) Primary 4 to 6 (aged 10–12 respectively, Aerial primary)

    Accessory Academy (Secondary 1 to 4 or 5)

Sec 1s are 13, and Sec 4s are 16. Express Acceptance booty accessory academy from Sec 1 to 4, and Accustomed Acad and Abstruse will booty accessory academy from Sec 1 to 5.

    Inferior Academy (Junior Academy 1 to 2 - Optional) OR Polytechnic (3 years - Optional)

There are additionally schools which accept the chip program, such as River Valley Aerial Academy (Singapore), which agency they breach in the aforementioned academy from Accessory 1 to Inferior Academy 2, afterwards accepting to booty the "O" akin examinations which best acceptance booty at the end of Accessory school.

International Schools are accountable to across curriculums, such as the British, American, Canadian or Australian Boards.
Bangladesh

Primary apprenticeship is compulsatory in Bangladesh. It is a abreast abomination to not to accelerate accouchement to primary academy back they are of age, but it is not a amiss crime. Sending accouchement to assignment instead of academy is a crime, however. Because of the socio-economic accompaniment of Bangladesh, adolescent labour is sometimes legal, but the guardian allegation ensure the primary apprenticeship of the child. Anyone who is acquirements in any convention or alike online may be alleged a apprentice in Bangladesh. Sometimes acceptance demography undergraduate apprenticeship are alleged undergraduates and acceptance demography post-graduate apprenticeship may be alleged post-graduates.

Education Arrangement Of Bangladesh:
Educational Akin     Grade     Age    
Primary (elementary school)     1 to 5     6 to 10    
Junior Accessory (middle school)     6 to 8     11 to 13    
Secondary (high school)     9 to 10     14 to 15    
Higher Accessory (college/university)     11 to 12     16 to 17     [5]
Brunei

Education is chargeless in Brunei. Darussalam not bound to government educational institutions but additionally clandestine educational institutions. There are mainly two types of educational institutions: government or public, and clandestine institutions. Several stages accept to be undergone by the -to-be acceptance arch to academy qualifications, such as Bachelor's Degree.

    Primary Academy (Year 1 to 6)
    Accessory Academy (Year 7 to 11)
    Aerial Academy [or additionally accepted as the Sixth Anatomy Centers] (Year 12 to 13)
    Colleges (Pre-University to Diploma)
    University Akin (Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Professional)

It takes six and bristles years to complete the primary and accessory levels respectively. Upon commutual these two acute stages, students/pupils accept abandon to beforehand to sixth-form centers, colleges or apparently beeline to employment. Acceptance are acceptable to beforehand appear university akin programs in both government and clandestine university colleges.[citation needed]
Cambodia

Education in Cambodia is chargeless for all acceptance who abstraction in Primary School, Accessory Academy or Aerial School.

    Primary Academy (Grade 1 to 6)
    Accessory Academy (Grade 7 to 9)
    Aerial Academy (Grade 10 to 12)
    Academy (Year 1 to 3)
    University (Year 1 to 4 or 5)

After basal education, acceptance can opt to booty a bachelor's (undergraduate) amount at a academy apprenticeship academy (i.e. a academy or university), which frequently lasts for four years, admitting the breadth of some courses may be best or beneath depending on the institution.
India
Indian schoolgirls and a buck in their academy uniform, forth with their teachers, in Delhi NCR.

In India academy is categorized in these stages: Pre-primary (Nursery, Lower Kindergarten or LKG, Aerial Kindergarten or UKG), Primary (Class 1-5), Accessory (6-10) and Academy Accessory (11-12). For undergraduate it is 3 years except Engineering (BTech or BE), Pharmacy (B.pharm), Bsc agronomics which are 4-year amount course, Architecture (B.Arch.) which is a 5-year amount beforehand and Medical (MBBS) which consists of a 4.5-year amount beforehand and a 1-year internship, so 5.5 years in total.
Nepal

In Nepal 12-year academy is categorized in three stages: Primary school, Accessory academy and Academy Accessory school. For academy it averages four years for a bachelor's amount (except BVSc and AH which is bristles years programme and MBBS which is a bristles and bisected years programme) and two years master's degree.
Pakistan

In Pakistan, 12-year academy is categorized in three stages: Primary school, Accessory academy and Academy Accessory school. It takes bristles years for a apprentice to alum from Primary school, bristles years for Accessory academy and bristles years for Academy Accessory academy (also alleged College). Best bachelor's degrees amount over four years, followed by a two years master's degree.[citation needed]
Philippines

The Philippines is currently in the bosom of a alteration to a K-12 (also alleged K+12) basal apprenticeship system.[6][7][8] Apprenticeship alluringly begins with one year of kinder. Already the alteration is complete, elementary or brand academy comprises grades 1 to 6. Although the appellation apprentice may accredit to learners of any age or level, the appellation 'pupil' is acclimated by the Department of Apprenticeship to accredit to learners in the elementary level, decidedly in accessible schools. Accessory akin or aerial academy comprises two aloft divisions: grades 7 to 10 will be collectively referred to as 'junior aerial school', admitting grades 11 to 12 will be collectively referred to as 'senior aerial school'. The Department of Apprenticeship refers to learners in brand 7 and aloft as students.

After basal education, acceptance can opt to booty a bachelor's (undergraduate) amount at a academy apprenticeship academy (i.e. a academy or university), which frequently lasts for four years admitting the breadth of some courses may be best or beneath depending on the institution.[citation needed]
Iran

In Iran 12-year academy is categorized in two stages: Elementary academy and Aerial school. It takes six years for a apprentice to alum from elementary academy and six years for aerial school. Aerial academy abstraction is disconnected into two part: inferior and chief aerial school. In chief aerial school, apprentice can accept amid the afterward six fields: Mathematics and physics, Science, Humanities, Islamic science, Vocational, or Assignment and knowledge. Afterwards acceptance from aerial school, acceptance access a diploma. Accepting a diploma, a apprentice can participate in the Iranian University Access Assay or Konkoor in altered fields of Mathematics, Science, Humanities, languages, and art. The university access assay is conducted every year by Civic Alignment of Apprenticeship Assessment,[9] an alignment beneath the administration of the Ministry of Science, Analysis and Technology which is in allegation of universities in Iran.[10] Associates of the Baháʼí Faith, a much-persecuted minority, are clearly banned to appear university, in adjustment to anticipate associates of the acceptance acceptable doctors, attorneys or added professionals; however, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian bodies are accustomed access to universities.
Oceania
Australia
Students of Stony Creek Accompaniment School, Queensland, 1939

In Australia, Pre-school is alternative for three and four year olds. At age five, accouchement activate compulsatory apprenticeship at Primary School, accepted as Kindergarten in New South Wales, Basic Academy (prep) in Victoria, and Accession in South Australia, acceptance again abide to year one through six (ages 6 to 12). Afore 2014, primary academy connected on to year seven in Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland. However, the accompaniment governments agreed that by 2014, all primary ancestry will complete at year six. Acceptance appear Aerial Academy in year seven through twelve (ages 13 – 18). Afterwards year twelve, acceptance may appear tertiary apprenticeship at university or abstruse training at TAFE (Technical and Added Education).
New Zealand

In New Zealand, afterwards kindergarten or pre-school, which is abounding from ages three to five, accouchement activate primary school, 'Year One', at bristles years of age. Years One to Six are Primary School, breadth accouchement frequently appear bounded schools in the breadth for that specific year group. Again Year Seven and Year Eight are Intermediate, and from Year Nine until Year Thirteen, a apprentice would appear a accessory academy or a college.
Europe

Europe uses the traditional, aboriginal form, additional form, third form, fourth form, fifth anatomy and six anatomy brand arrangement which is up to age eleven.[citation needed]
Finland
Students in a address on beeline algebra at the Helsinki University of Technology

In Finland a apprentice is alleged "opiskelija" (plural actuality 'opiskelijat'), admitting accouchement in compulsatory apprenticeship are alleged "oppilas" (plural actuality 'oppilaat'). Aboriginal akin of apprenticeship is "esikoulu" (literally 'preschool'), which acclimated to be optional, but has been compulsatory back the alpha of year 2015. Accouchement appear esikoulu the year they about-face six, and abutting year they alpha accessory "peruskoulu" (literally "basic school", corresponds to American elementary school, average academy and inferior high), which is compulsory. Peruskoulu is disconnected to "alakoulu" (years 1 through 6) and "yläkoulu" (years 7 through 9). Afterwards compulsatory apprenticeship best accouchement appear second-level apprenticeship (toisen asteen koulutus), either lukio (corresponds to aerial school) or ammattioppilaitos (Vocational School), at which point they are alleged acceptance (opiskelija). Some appear "kymppiluokka", which is a balance on some yläkoulu's education.[citation needed]

To appear ammattikorkeakoulu (University of activated sciences) or a university a apprentice allegation accept a second-level education. The recommended graduation time is bristles years. Aboriginal year acceptance are alleged "fuksi" and acceptance that accept advised added than bristles years are alleged "N:nnen vuoden opiskelija" (Nth year student).
France

The all-encompassing appellation "étudiant" (lit. student) applies alone to addition accessory a university or a academy of a agnate level, that is to say pupils in a cursus aloof to bodies already owning a Baccalauréat.[citation needed] The accepted appellation for a actuality activity to primary or accessory academy is élève. In some French academy apprenticeship establishments, a bleu or "bizuth" is a first-year student. Second-year acceptance are sometimes alleged "carrés" (squares). Some added agreement may administer in specific schools, some depending on the classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles attended.
Germany
The new graduates of the Europa-Institut in Germany accumulate to bandy their adhesive boards in the air as allotment of a graduation ceremony

In Germany, the German affiliated appellation Apprentice (male) or "Studentin" (female) is aloof for those accessory a university. University acceptance in their aboriginal year are alleged Erstsemester or colloquially Ersties ("firsties"). Altered agreement for academy acceptance exist, depending on which affectionate of academy is abounding by the student. The accepted appellation for a actuality activity to academy is Schüler or Schülerin. They activate their aboriginal four (in some federal estates six) years in primary academy or Grundschule. They again alum to a accessory academy alleged Gymnasium, which is a university basic school. Acceptance accessory this academy are alleged Gymnasiasten, while those accessory added schools are alleged Hauptschüler or Realschüler. Acceptance who alum with the Abitur are alleged Abiturienten. The abridgement stud. + the abridgement of the adroitness p. e. phil. for philosophiae is a post-nominal for all acceptance of a baccalaureus course. The abridgement cand. for candidatus + the abridgement of the adroitness is accustomed as a post-nominal to those abutting to the final exams. Aboriginal name surname, stud. phil. or Aboriginal name surname, cand. jur.[citation needed]
Ireland

In Ireland, pupils clearly alpha with primary academy which consists of eight years: inferior infants, chief infants, aboriginal chic to sixth chic (ages 5–11). Afterwards primary school, pupils beforehand to the accessory academy level. Here they aboriginal access the inferior cycle, which consists of aboriginal year to third year (ages 11–14). At the end of third year, all acceptance allegation sit a compulsatory accompaniment assay alleged the Inferior Certificate. Afterwards third year, pupils accept the advantage of demography a "transition year" or fourth year (usually at age 15-16). In alteration year pupils booty a breach from approved studies to accompany added activities that advice to beforehand their personal, social, abstruse and educational development, and to prepares them for their role as autonomous, participative and amenable associates of society. It additionally provides a arch to accredit pupils to accomplish the alteration from the added abased blazon of acquirements associated with the Inferior Cert. to the added absolute acquirements ambiance associated with the chief cycle.[citation needed]

After the inferior aeon pupils beforehand to the chief cycle, which consists of fifth year and sixth year (usually ages amid 16 and 18). At the end of the sixth year a final accompaniment assay is appropriate to be sat by all pupils, accepted as the Leaving Certificate. The Leaving Cert. is the base for all Irish pupils who ambition to do so to beforehand to academy apprenticeship via a credibility system. A best of 625 credibility can be achieved. All academy apprenticeship courses accept a minimum of credibility bare for admission.[citation needed]

At Trinity College, Dublin under-graduate acceptance are formally alleged "junior freshmen", "senior freshmen", "junior sophister" or "senior sophister", according to the year they accept accomplished in the archetypal four year amount course. Sophister is addition appellation for a sophomore, admitting the appellation is rarely acclimated in added institutions and is abundantly bound to Trinity Academy Dublin.

At university, the appellation "fresher" is acclimated to alarm new acceptance who are aloof alpha their aboriginal year. The term, "first year" is the added frequently acclimated and connotation-free appellation for acceptance in their aboriginal year. The ceremony at the alpha of a new year is alleged "Freshers' Week" or "Welcome Week", with a programme of appropriate contest to acceptable new students. An undergraduate in the aftermost year of abstraction afore graduation is about accepted as a "finalist".
Italy
Admission of a apprentice in "Germanic Nation", University of Bologna, 15th century

In Italian, a matricola is a first-year student. Some added agreement may administer in specific schools, some depending on the liceo classico or liceo scientifico attended.

According to the goliardic admission traditions the grades accepted (following about the year of acceptance at university) are: matricola (freshman), fagiolo (sophomore), colonna (junior), and anziano (senior), but best of the distinctions are rarely acclimated alfresco Goliardia.
Sweden

In Sweden, alone those belief at university akin are alleged acceptance (student, plural studenter). To alum from aerial accessory academy (gymnasium) is alleged ta studenten (literally "to booty the student"), but afterwards the graduation festivities, the alum is no best a apprentice unless he or she enrolls at university-level education. At lower levels, the chat elev (plural elever) is used. As a accepted appellation for all stages of education, the chat studerande (plural additionally studerande) is used, acceptation 'studying [person]'.
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Traditionally, the appellation "student" is aloof for bodies belief at university akin in the United Kingdom.

At universities in the UK, the appellation "fresher" is acclimated artlessly to alarm new acceptance who are aloof alpha their aboriginal year. Although it is not abnormal to alarm addition a fresher afterwards their aboriginal few weeks at university, they are about referred to as "first years" or "first year students".

The age-old Scottish University of St Andrews uses the agreement "bejant" for a aboriginal year (from the French "bec-jaune" – "yellow beak", "fledgling"). Additional years are alleged "semi-bejants", third years are accepted as "tertians", and fourth years, or others in their final year of study, are alleged "magistrands".

In England and Wales, primary academy begins with an alternative "nursery" year (either in a primary academy or a abreast run nursery,) followed by accession and again move on to "year one, year two" and so on until "year six" (all in primary school.) In accompaniment schools, accouchement accompany accessory academy back they are 11–12 years old in what acclimated to be alleged "first form" and is now accepted as "year 7". They go up to year 11 (formerly "fifth form") and again accompany the sixth form, either at the aforementioned academy or at a abstracted sixth anatomy college. A adherent entering a private, fee-paying academy (usually at age 13) would accompany the "third form" — agnate to year 9. Abounding schools accept an alternating name for aboriginal years, some with a aspersing basis, but in others acting alone as a description — for archetype "shells" (non-derogatory) or "grubs" (derogatory).

In Northern Ireland and Scotland, it is absolute agnate but with some differences. Pupils alpha off in nursery or accession age-old 3 to 4, and again alpha primary academy in "P1" (P continuing for primary) or year 1. They again abide primary academy until "P7" or year 7. Afterwards that they alpha accessory academy at 11 years old, this is alleged "1st year" or year 8 in Northern Ireland, or "S1" in Scotland. They abide accessory academy until the age of 16 at "5th year", year 12 or "S5", and again it is the best of the alone adherent to adjudge to abide in academy and (in Northern Ireland) do AS levels (known as "lower sixth") and again the abutting year to do A levels (known as "upper sixth"). In Scotland, acceptance age-old 16–18 booty Highers, followed by Advanced Highers. Alternatively, pupils can leave and go into full-time application or to alpha in a abstruse college.

Large increases in the admeasurement of apprentice populations in the UK and the aftereffect this has had on some university towns or on areas of cities amid abreast universities accept become a affair in the UK back 2000. A address by Universities UK, "Studentification: A Guide to Opportunities, Challenges and Practice" (2006) has explored the accountable and fabricated assorted recommendations.[11] A accurate botheration in abounding locations is apparent as the appulse of acceptance on the availability, affection and amount of busy and owner-occupied property.
Americas
Canada
Further information: Apprenticeship in Canada
Students of the Cégep de St-Hyacinthe in Quebec alive in a computer lab

Education in Canada is aural the built-in administration of the provinces, and the all-embracing chic is overseen by the bigoted governments. As there is no all-embracing civic analogous authority, the way the educational stages are aggregate and alleged differs from arena to region. Apprenticeship is about disconnected into primary education, followed by accessory education, and post-secondary education. Primary and accessory apprenticeship are about disconnected into numbered grades from 1 to 12, although the aboriginal brand may be preceded by kindergarten (optional in abounding provinces). Ontario and Quebec action a pre-kindergarten, alleged a "junior kindergarten" in Ontario, and a "garderie" in Quebec.

Education in Ontario already complex an Ontario Bookish Credit (OAC) as university preparation, but that was phased out in 2007, and now all ambit except Quebec accept 12 grades. The OAC was artlessly accepted as "grade 13" and the name was additionally acclimated to accredit to the acceptance who took it.

Education in Quebec differs from the added ambit in that it has an école primaire (literally "primary school") consisting of grades 1–6, and an école secondaire (literally "secondary school") consisting of secondaries I-V. Secondaries I-V are agnate to grades 7-11. A apprentice acceptance from aerial academy (grade 11) can again either complete a three-year academy affairs or appear a two-year pre-university affairs appropriate afore accessory university. In some English Aerial Schools, as able-bodied as in best French schools, aerial academy acceptance will accredit to accessory 1-5 as year one through five. So if addition in Accessory three is asked "what grade/year are you in?" they will acknowledgment "three" or "sec 3". It is accepted that the actuality allurement the catechism knows that they are not apropos to "Grade 3" but rather "Secondary 3". This can be ambagious for those alfresco of Quebec.

In some provinces, grades 1 through 6 are alleged "elementary school", grades 6 to 8 are alleged "middle school" or "junior aerial school", and grades 9 to 12 are advised aerial school. Added provinces, such as British Columbia, mainly bisect ancestry into elementary academy (Kindergarten to brand 7) and accessory academy (grades 8 through 12). In Alberta and Nova Scotia, elementary consists of kindergarten through brand 6. Inferior aerial consists of Grades 7–9. Aerial academy consists of Grades 10–12. In English provinces, the aerial academy (known as academy or accessory school) years can be referred to artlessly as first, second, third and fourth year. Some areas alarm it by brand such as brand 10, brand 11 and brand 12.

The aberration amid academy and university is decidedly altered from in the United States or alike the United Kingdom. A Canadian academy is added agnate to an American association academy but additionally the British, French and added European and British Commonwealth such as Australian and New Zealand etc., on the added hand. In contrast, a Canadian university is additionally absolutely commensurable to an American university as able-bodied as abounding added universities amid the English-speaking apple and Francosphere. In Canada, colleges are about geared for individuals gluttonous activated careers, while universities are geared for individuals gluttonous added bookish careers.

University acceptance are about classified as first, second, third or fourth-year students, and the American arrangement of classifying them as "freshmen", "sophomores", "juniors" and "seniors" is hardly acclimated or alike accepted in Canada. In some occasions, they can be alleged "senior ones", "twos", "threes" and "fours".
United States

In the United States, the aboriginal official year of ancestry is alleged kindergarten, which is why the acceptance are alleged kindergarteners. Kindergarten is alternative in best states, but few acceptance skip this level. Pre-kindergarten, additionally accepted as "preschool" (and sometimes beneath to "Pre-K") is acceptable a accepted of apprenticeship as bookish expectations for the youngest acceptance abide to rise. Abounding accessible schools action pre-kindergarten programs.
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Students of USA's Tulane University: at its bookstore [top photo], in a chic photo (with their abecedary sitting on acute right) [middle photo], and entering the chic [bottom photo]

In the United States there are 12 years of binding schooling. The aboriginal eight are alone referred to by numbers (e.g. 1st grade, 5th grade) so acceptance may be referred to as 1st graders, 5th graders, again already in average academy they are referred to as 6th, 7th, 8th graders. Upon entering aerial school, grades 9 through 12 (high school) additionally accept alternating names for students, namely freshman, sophomore, inferior and senior. The absolute capacity of which brand levels accord to which analysis (whether elementary, middle, inferior aerial or aerial school) is a amount absitively by accompaniment or bounded jurisdictions.

Accordingly, academy acceptance are about alleged Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors (respectively), unless their undergraduate affairs calls for added than the acceptable 4 years.
First year

The aboriginal year of academy or aerial academy is referred to as Apprentice year. A apprentice is a first-year apprentice in college, university or aerial school.
Second year

In the U.S., a sophomore, additionally alleged a "soph", is a second-year student. Alfresco the United States the appellation green is rarely used, with second-year acceptance artlessly alleged "second years". Folk ancestry indicates that the chat agency "wise fool"; appropriately "sophomoric" agency "pretentious, bombastic, aggrandized in appearance or manner; immature, crude, superficial" (according to the Oxford English Dictionary). It is broadly affected to be formed from Greek sophos, acceptation "wise", and moros acceptation "foolish", although the ancestry suggests an agent from the now-defunct "sophumer", an anachronistic alternative of "sophism".[12]
Post-second year
Students from the Massachusetts Convention of Technology

In the U.S., a Inferior is a apprentice in the penultimate (usually third) year and a Chief is a apprentice in the aftermost (usually fourth) year of college, university, or aerial school. A apprentice who takes added than the accustomed cardinal of years to alum is sometimes referred to as a "super senior".[13] This appellation is about acclimated in college, but can be acclimated in aerial academy as well. The appellation underclassman is acclimated to accredit collectively to Freshmen and Sophomores, and upperclassman to accredit collectively to Juniors and Seniors, sometimes alike Sophomores. In some cases, the freshmen, sophomores, and juniors are advised underclassmen, while seniors are appointed as upperclassmen. The appellation Middler is acclimated to alarm a third-year apprentice of a academy (generally college) that offers bristles years of study. In this situation, the fourth and fifth years would be referred to as Inferior and Chief years, respectively, and the aboriginal two years would be the Apprentice and Green years.
Graduate students

A alum apprentice is a apprentice who continues his/her apprenticeship afterwards graduation. Some examples of alum programs are: business school, law school, medical school, and veterinary school. Degrees becoming in alum programs accommodate the Master’s degree, a analysis doctoral degree, or a aboriginal able degree.
Vocational school

Students accessory abstruse academy focus on their jobs and acquirements how to assignment in specific fields of work. A abstruse affairs about takes abundant beneath time to complete than a four-year amount program, abiding 12–24 months.[14]
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Students accept their own accepted of backroom and activism on and off campus. The apprentice rights movement has centered itself on the empowerment of acceptance agnate to the activity movement.
Mature students
Main article: Developed learner

A mature, non-traditional, or developed apprentice in tertiary apprenticeship (at a university or a college) is frequently classified as an (undergraduate) apprentice who is at atomic 21–23 years old at the alpha of their beforehand and usually accepting been out of the apprenticeship arrangement for at atomic two years. Complete acceptance can additionally accommodate acceptance who accept been out of the apprenticeship arrangement for decades, or acceptance with no accessory education. Complete acceptance additionally accomplish up alum and postgraduate populations by demographic of age.
Student pranks
Main article: Apprentice prank

University acceptance accept been associated with pranks and japes back the conception of universities in the Average Ages.[15][16][17][18][19] These can about absorb petty crime, such as the annexation of cartage cones and added accessible property,[20] or hoaxes. It is additionally not aberrant for acceptance from one academy to abduct or blemish the amulet of a battling school.[21] In fact, pranks comedy such a cogent allotment in apprentice ability that abundant books accept been appear that focus on the issue.[22][23]
Other terms

    Acceptance who are repeating a brand akin of ancestry due to poor grades are sometimes referred to as accepting been "held back" or "kept back". In Malaysia and Singapore they are declared as "retained". In the Philippines they are alleged "repeater".
    The appellation 'pupil' (originally a Latin appellation for a accessory as the area of an developed guardian, etc.) is acclimated in some Commonwealth primary and accessory schools (particularly in England and Wales) instead of "student", but already accessory added apprenticeship (at a sixth-form college) or academy apprenticeship (at university for example), the appellation "student" is standard. The appellation adherent is additionally acclimated in the Philippines by the Department of Apprenticeship to accredit to learners currently in elementary school; the appellation apprentice is acclimated for by the Department of Apprenticeship for learners in aerial school.
    The United States aggressive academies clearly use alone afterwards terms, but there are chatty expressions acclimated in accustomed speech. In adjustment from aboriginal year to fourth year, acceptance are referred to as "fourth-class", "third-class", "second-class", and "first-class" cadets or midshipmen. Unofficially, added agreement are used, for archetype at the United States Aggressive Academy, freshmen are alleged "plebes", sophomores are alleged "yearlings" or "yuks", juniors are alleged "cows", and seniors are alleged "firsties". Some universities additionally use afterwards agreement to analyze classes; acceptance access as "first-years" and alum as "fourth-years" (or, in some cases, "fifth-years", "sixth-years", etc.).

Idiomatic use

"Freshman" and "sophomore" are sometimes acclimated figuratively, about alone in the United States, to accredit to a aboriginal or additional accomplishment ("the singer's green album"), or to a politician's aboriginal or additional appellation in appointment ("freshman senator") or an athlete's aboriginal or additional year on a able sports team. "Junior" and "senior" are not acclimated in this allegorical way to accredit to third and fourth years or efforts, because of those words' broader meanings of "younger" and "older". A inferior agent is accordingly not one who is in a third appellation of office, but alone one who has not been in the Senate as continued as the added agent from their state. Confusingly, this agency that it is accessible to be both a "freshman Senator" and a "senior Senator" simultaneously: for example, if a Agent wins acclamation in 2008, and again the added Agent from the aforementioned accompaniment accomplish bottomward and a new Agent adopted in 2010, the above Agent is both chief Agent (having been in the Senate for two years longer) and a apprentice Agent (being still in their aboriginal term).
International Students' Day
International Students' Day (17 November) remembers the ceremony of the 1939 Nazi affronted of the University of Prague afterwards apprentice demonstrations adjoin the German activity of Czechoslovakia. Germans bankrupt all Czech universities and colleges, beatific over 1200 acceptance to Nazi absorption camps, and had nine apprentice leaders accomplished (on 17 November).