United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, usage of the word "college" remains the loosest, encompassing a range of institutions. However, in common usage, the term "college" usually does not refer to a post-secondary level of study, i.e. most people say "going to university."
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“And hereby hangs a moral highly applicable to our own trustee-ridden universities, if to nothing else. If we really wanted liberty of speech and thought, we could probably get it—Spain fifty years ago certainly had a longer tradition of despotism than has the United States—but do we want it? In these years we will see.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
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