comprehensive
- noun
- /ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪv/
- UK
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colegio no selectivo
- Many families choose to send their children to a comprehensive because they promote inclusivity and diversity.
Examples
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I mean comprehensive schools, like we're kind of in the north Edinburgh and like Kingsley Park, Craig Royston is good.
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But once you, once you get to the sort of you, you, you comprehensive school, your secondary school level, there are no role models.
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And so throughout comprehensive school, it was very, very tough.
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The relative clarity of the original mission of the comprehensive depends, to some extent, on when they were founded.
Academic text (1990) -
(n32) D. J. Smith and Sally Tomlinson, The School Effect -- A Study of Multi-racial Comprehensives (London: Policy Studies Institute, 1989).
Academic text (2002) -
At the end of the year, students from Greene-Taliaferro comprehensive gathered for the graduation ceremony.
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After much consideration, they enrolled their daughter in the local comprehensive that welcomed students of all abilities.
Synonyms
A state school for children after primary school that accepts all abilities without selection by tests
A secondary school that accepts children of all abilities without exam selection
Compounds
- Specialized
1
6.9
A major exam that tests a student's knowledge of a whole subject, often needed to finish a degree
- Specialized
Insurance that covers many risks like damage, theft, and loss
A state school for children after primary school that accepts all abilities without selection by tests
How Academic
Surface Forms
Etymology
Comprehensive for a school uses the same idea: com- 'together' and prehendere 'to grasp', so the school 'takes in' all students together. That is why a comprehensive school offers many subjects to all students rather than choosing only some.