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sit (an exam) [to take an examination]

resit [to take an examination again, because you failed it or did not do well enough [= retake]]
mature student [a student at a university or college who is over 25 years old]
grant [an amount of money given to someone, especially by the government, for a particular purpose]
scholarship [an amount of money that is given to s/o by to help pay for their education]
credit [a successfully completed part of a course at a university or college]
Bachelors Degree [a first degree (= qualification) at college or university]
Masters Degree [a further university degree that you study for after a first degree]
PhD [doctor of philosophy: the highest college or university degree, or someone who has this]
hall of residence [a college or university building where students live [= dorm]]

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tutor [a teacher who works with one student or a small group, either at a British college or university or in the
home of a child]
graduate [to complete a first university degree successfully]
enroll [to officially arrange to join a school]
numeracy [ability to do basic mathematics]
literacy [the ability to read and write]
discipline [the ability to control your own behaviour]
evening class [a course for adults in the evening]
correspondence course [a course that you do at home, using books and exercises sent to you by mail/email]
day release [a system of allowing employees days off work for education]

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tabloid [a newspaper with small pages]
broadsheet [a newspaper printed on a large size of paper]
current affairs [political news about events happening now]
coverage [the reporting of news/sport in newspapers and on the radio/television]
broadcast [broadcast]
information overload [when you get too much information at one time and cannot think about it in a clear way]

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tycoon [someone who is successful in business or industry and has a lot of money and power]
paparazzi [photographers who follow famous people in order to take pictures they can sell to newspapers]
readership [all the people who read a particular newspaper or magazine regularly]
entertainment [things such as films, television, performances etc that are intended to amuse or interest people]
invasion of privacy [an act or a process that affects somebody/something in a way that is not welcome]
gutter press [the newspapers that print shocking stories about people's personal lives (= tabloid)]
unscrupulous [behaving in an unfair or dishonest way]
censorship [the control of the information and ideas circulated within a society]
exploit [to treat a person or situation as an opportunity to gain an advantage for yourself]
chequebook journalism [when newspapers get material for articles by paying people a lot of money for
information about crimes or the private lives of famous people]
libel [the act of printing a statement about sb that is not true and that gives people a bad opinion of them]