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High velocity oxygen fuel High Velocity Oxygen Fuel (HVOF) is a technique to deposit thin films on a material, and can be used to deposit layers as thick as 12mm (1/2"). Among others, it is used to deposit a wear and corrosion resistant ceramic coating on a light weight material.
High vocal center The High Vocal Center (HVC) is a nucleus in the brain of the songbirds (order passeriformes) necessary for both the learning and the production of bird song. It is located in the lateral caudal nidopallium and has projections to both the direct and the anterior forebrain pathways.
High voltage The term high voltage characterizes electrical circuits, in which the voltage used is the cause of particular safety concerns and insulation requirements. High voltage is used in electrical power distribution, in cathode-ray tubes, to generate X-rays and particle beams, to demonstrate arcing, for ignition, in photomultiplier tubes, and high power amplifier vacuum tubes.
High Willhays High Willhays is the highest point on Dartmoor, Devon, at 621 m (2,038 ft) above sea level, and the highest point in Great Britain south of the Brecon Beacons. High Willhays and nearby Yes Tor are the only summits in England south of the Peak District to rise above 2,000 feet, apart from Black Mountain which is on the Welsh border.
High Windows High Windows is a collection of poems by English poet Philip Larkin, and was published in 1974 by Faber and Faber Limited. The readily available paperback version (ISBN 978-0-571-11451-1) was first published in Britain in 1979.
High Wood High Wood is a small forest near Bazentin le Petit in the Somme département of northern France which was the scene of intense fighting for two months from 14 July to 15 September, 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. The French name for the wood was Bois des Foureaux (now called Bois des Fourcaux) but to the British infantry who fought there, it was known as High Wood and, like neighbouring Delville Wood, it earned an evil reputation.
High Wycombe High Wycombe, (previously Chepping Wycombe or Chipping Wycombe as late as 19111911 Encyclopedia Britannica) South Buckinghamshire, is 33 miles (53 kilometres) west-north-west of London, England. According to the 2001 census the High Wycombe Urban Area had a population of 118,229, making it the largest town in the shire county of Buckinghamshire now that Milton Keynes is a unitary authority, and the second largest in the ceremonial county.
High Wycombe railway station High Wycombe railway station is the railway station of the town of High Wycombe. The station is served by Chiltern Railways trains from Marylebone towards Birmingham Snow Hill and is situated between Beaconsfield and Saunderton stations.
High Wycombe, Western Australia High Wycombe, Western Australia is a suburb of both the Shire of Kalamunda, and Perth, Western Australia. High Wycombe lies east of the Perth CBD at the base of the Darling Scarp (commonly referred to as the foothills).
High yellow High yellow is a term for a very light-skinned African-American sharing Caucasian ancestry. The term was in common use in the United States at the end of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century, and appears in many popular songs of the era, such as The Yellow Rose of Texas.
High yielding variety High-yielding varieties or HYVs is the generic name for a group of genetically enhanced cultivars of crops such as rice, maize and wheat that have an increased growth rate, an increased percentage of usable plant parts or an increased resistance against crop diseases.
High Yield Cognitive Systems In 2002, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) outlined a unified vision for the future of computing technologies that possess human-like information processing capabilities in its Broad Agency Announcement 02-21 . To disambiguate this new direction from myriad approaches to the same problem that were already described in the academic literature, IPTO director Ron Brachman chose to call this approach "cognitive computing.
High Zero High Zero is an annual festival of Experimental Free Improvised Music hosted in Baltimore, Maryland, US starting in 1999, and is one of the largest Free Music festivals in the US, if not the world. It is hosted by the Red Room Collective, a volunteer group that sponsors weekly concerts in improvised music and experimental theater, film, poetry, etc.
High-altitude airship The United States Department of Defense Missile Defense Agency has contracted Lockheed Martin to construct a high-altitude airship (HAA) to enhance its Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). An unmanned lighter-than-air vehicle, the HAA, is designed to operate above the jet stream in a quasi-geostationary position to deliver persistent station keeping as a surveillance platform, telecommunications relay, or a weather observer.
High-angle shot In film, a high angle shot is usually when the camera is located high (often above head height)and the shot is angled downwards (in contrast to a bird's eye shot). This shot is used sometimes in scenes of confrontation and fights to show which person has the higher power.
High-availability cluster High-availability clusters (also known as HA Clusters) are computer clusters that are implemented primarily for the purpose of improving the availability of services which the cluster provides. They operate by having redundant computers or nodes which are then used to provide service when system components fail.
High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse A High-altitude Electromagnetic Pulse, or HEMP, is emanated from the detonation of a single nuclear warhead several kilometers into the atmosphere. In the absence of proper shielding, it can destroy electronics vital to telecommunications and computing by generating a current that will overload highly sensitive integrated circuits.
High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is a form of Digital Rights Management (DRM) developed by Intel Corporation to control digital audio and video content as it travels across Digital Visual Interface (DVI) or High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) connections. The HDCP specification is proprietary and an implementation of HDCP requires a license.
High-definition metrology High-definition metrology refers to measurment of dimensional or other attributes of a surface or an object in which measurements are made densely across the observable extent of that surface or object, so that the measured attribute of the surface or object can be portrayed (displayed) with high-definition. In that sense the term High-definition metrology is analogous to high definition television.
High-end audio cables High-end audio cables are intended to improve the sound quality of high-fidelity audio systems. Since the audio signal passes through cables on its way from the source to the amplifier, or from the amplifier to the speakers, the cables will affect that signal.
High-energy astronomy High energy astronomy is the study of astronomical objects that release EM radiation of highly energetic wavelengths. It includes X-ray astronomy, gamma-ray astronomy, and extreme UV astronomy, as well as studies of neutrinos and cosmic rays.
High-finned sperm whale The High-finned Sperm Whale is a supposed variant or relative of the known sperm whale that is said to live in the seas around the Shetland Islands in Europe. The major difference between this creature and other sperm whales is the presence of a tall dorsal fin on its back, which the known sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus lacks.
High-functioning autism High-functioning autism (HFA) is the condition of individuals who display some symptoms of autism but who are able to function close to or above a normal level in society. HFA is sometimes also known as Asperger syndrome, however this is a misnomer.
High-Five Challenge High-Five Challenge, which airs on Oregon Public Broadcasting and in Washington and is taped in Portland, Oregon is a high school quiz competition featuring teams from Oregon and Washington. It has been on the air since 1993 and was created and is hosted by Wayne Faligowski.
High-gain antenna The high-gain antenna (HGA) is an antenna with a focused, narrow radiowave beam width. This narrow beam width allows for more precise targeting of where you want the radio signal to go - also known as a directional antenna.
High-heeled shoe High-heeled shoes are shoes which raise the heel of the wearer's foot significantly higher than the toes. When both the heel and the toes are raised equal amounts, as in a platform shoe, it is generally not considered to be a "high-heel.
High-intensity interval training High-intensity interval training (HIIT), sometimes referred to as Guerilla Cardio, is an exercise strategy that is intended to improve performance with short training sessions. HIIT 'sessions' are becoming increasingly popular among today's athletes as more studies are done about the benefits of this exercise method.
High-k dielectric The term high-Îş dielectric refers to materials with a high dielectric constant (Îş) (relative to silicon dioxide) which may be used in next generation semiconductor components to replace the SiO2 gate dielectric, especially for the low standby power (LSTP) applications. With the continued scaling of the gate oxide to below 2 nm, leakage currents due to tunneling are very high, so the thickness must be increased without reducing the associated capacitance.
High-key lighting High-key lighting is a style of lighting for film, television, or photography that aims to reduce the contrast ratio present in the scene. This was originally done partly for technological reasons, since early film and television did not deal well with high contrast ratios, but now is used to create an upbeat mood.
High-level emulation High-level emulation (HLE) is an approach for construction of emulators, specifically of video game console systems. In HLE, instead of trying to accurately recreate the hardware, to create a platform on which the native code can be run, the effort focuses on recreating the appropriate functionality provided by the system emulated.
High-level programming language A high-level programming language is a programming language that, in comparison to low-level programming languages, may be more abstract, easier to use, or more portable across platforms. Such languages often abstract away CPU operations such as memory access models and management of scope.
High-lift device In aircraft design, high-lift devices are a variety of mechanisms intended to add lift during certain portions of flight. They include common devices such as flaps and slats, as well as less common devices such as leading edge extensions and blown flaps.
High-loss calculation When Agner Krarup Erlang developed the Erlang-B and Erlang-C traffic equations, they were developed on a set of assumptions (see grade of service). These assumptions are accurate under most conditions; however in the event of extremely high traffic congestion, Erlang's equations fail to accurately predict the correct number of circuits required because of re-entrant traffic.
High-maintenance In modern American slang, a person is described as high-maintenance if they require 'a lot of attention in order to function normally'. The slang definition of high-maintenance is most often used to describe a person who requires a lot of attention to his or her appearance.
High-molecular weight kininogen High-molecular weight kininogen (HMWK), also known as the Williams-Fitzgerald-Flaujeac factor or the Fitzgerald factor or the HMWK-kallikrein factor is a protein from the blood coagulation system as well as the kinin-kallikrein system. It is a protein that adsorbs to the surface of biomaterials that come in contact with blood in vivo.
High-occupancy toll A high-occupancy toll (HOT) is a toll enacted on single-occupant vehicles who wish to use lanes or entire roads that are designated for the use of high-occupancy vehicles (HOVs, also known as carpools). Tolls are collected either by manned toll booths, automatic number plate recognition, or electronic toll collection systems.
High-occupancy vehicle lane In transportation engineering and transportation planning, a high-occupancy vehicle lane (or HOV lane) is a lane reserved for vehicles with a driver and one or more passengers. They are also known as carpool lanes or diamond lanes.
High-pass filter A high-pass filter is a filter that passes high frequencies well, but attenuates (or reduces) frequencies lower than the cutoff frequency. The actual amount of attenuation for each frequency varies from filter to filter.
High-performance computing The term high performance computing (HPC) refers to the use of (parallel) supercomputers and computer clusters, that is, computing systems comprised of multiple (usually mass-produced) processors linked together in a single system with commercially available interconnects. This is in contrast to mainframe computers, which are generally monolithic in nature.
High-performance technical computing High Performance Technical Computing (HPTC) refers to the application of high performance computing (HPC) to technical, as opposed to business or scientific, problems (although the lines between the various disciplines are necessarily vague). HPTC often refers to the application of HPC to engineering problems and includes computational fluid dynamics, simulation, modeling, and seismic tomography (particularly in the petrochemical industry).
High-powered money High-powered money is a macroeconomic term referring to the monetary base — that is, to highly liquid money such as currency and deposits held in demand accounts such as checking accounts. In the United States, this concept of money is often referred to as M1.
High-Performance Parallel Interface HIPPI (High-Performance Parallel Interface) is a standard point-to-point protocol for transmitting large amounts of data at up to billions of bits per second over relatively short distances, mainly on local area networks (LANs). The proponents of HIPPI believe that its use can make computers, interconnected storage devices, and other resources on a local area network function as though they were all within a single supercomputer.
High-quality feed block High-quality feed block or HQFB, is a feed block formulated to contain rumen degradable energy source (molasses), non-protein nitrogen (NPN), rumen by-pass protein (cassava hay), minerals and lipids. HQFB is used for ruminant feeding as a strategic supplement to improve rumen ecology and animal productivity.
High-risk heterosexual High-risk heterosexual (HRH) is a clinical term often used by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state and local Health Departments to classify at-risk populations for HIV/AIDS or other STD infections.
High-speed minesweeper In Naval warfare, a high-speed minesweeper is a type of ship designed to clear naval mines. With the construction of newer, more heavily armed and far-ranging destroyers, the need for the old flush deck destroyers in their designed role diminished.
High-speed rail High-speed rail is public transport by rail at speeds in excess of 200 km/h (125 mph). According to UIC, "high-speed train" is a train that runs at over 250 km/h on dedicated tracks, or over 200 km/h on upgraded conventional tracks.
High-speed rail in Canada Although Canada does not have high-speed rail lines, there have been two routes frequently proposed as suitable for a high-speed rail corridor. The first is in Alberta, between the cities of Edmonton and Calgary via Red Deer.
High-speed rail in Germany Construction on first German high-speed lines began shortly after that of the French LGVs. Legal battles caused significant delays, so that the InterCity Express (ICE) trains were deployed ten years after the TGV network was established.
High-speed rail in Norway Currently, the only high speed train service is the Flytoget, commuting between the Oslo Airport and the metropolitan areas of Oslo at speeds of up to 210 km/h (130 mph). It is going to be extended westwards to include the city of Drammen in 2008, not at high speed (source).
High-speed rail in Portugal The Portuguese government has approved the construction of two high-speed lines from the capital Lisbon to Porto and Madrid from 2007, bringing the countries' capital cities within three hours of each other. There has been an intense public debate on these plans, since the Spanish connection to the border is the worst possible for Portuguese interests.
High-speed rail in the United Kingdom [current British domestic high-speed trains are able to operate above 200km/h, however several proposals put forward since construction of the CTRL might have seen trains like this GNER-rented Eurostar operate at its full potential.]
High-speed rail in the United States High-speed rail in the United States is more a case of hope than reality. It is possible to trace the development of high-speed railways back to the streamliners that criss-crossed the United States in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s which, in turn, can be traced further back to the competing companies operating different routes between London and Scotland, and to railways in Germany and France.
High-speed rail in Turkey Turkey started building high-speed rail lines in 2003. The first line which has a length of 533 km, from İstanbul (Europe's largest metropolis) via Eskişehir to Ankara (capital of Turkey), is under construction and will open in 2007 reducing the traveling time from 6–7 hours to 3 hours 10 minutes.
High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data (HSCSD), is an enhancement to Circuit Switched Data, the original data transmission mechanism of the GSM mobile phone system. As with CSD, channel allocation is done in circuit switched mode.
High-Speed Downlink Packet Access High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) (Sometimes known as High-Speed Downlink Protocol Access) is a 3G mobile telephony protocol in the HSPA family, which provides a smooth evolutionary path for UMTS-based networks allowing for higher data transfer speeds. Current HSDPA deployments now support 1.
High-Speed Packet Access High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is a collection of mobile telephony protocols that extend and improve the performance of existing UMTS protocols. Two standards HSDPA and HSUPA have been established and a further standard HSOPA is being proposed.
High-Speed Serial Interface The High-Speed Serial Interface (HSSI) is a differential ECL serial interface standard developed by Cisco Systems and T3plus Networking primarily for use in WAN router connections. It is capable of speeds up to 52 Mbit/s with cables up to 50 feet in length.
High-Sticking High-Sticking is a penalized action in the sport of Hockey where a player advertently or inadvertently raises his stick above shoulder level. A stoppage in play results if a "High-Stick" comes in contact with the puck and the team who touched it regains control of the puck.
High-tech architecture An architecture style developed in the 1970s, High Tech Architecture got its name from High Tech: The Industrial Style and Source Book for The Home, a book published in 1978 by Joan Kron and Suzanne Slesin. The book as well as the style made heavy use of industrial materials such as factory floor coverings.
High-tech lynching High-tech lynching is a term describing a period of nonstop, vicious verbal attacks directed at a particular person or group that is communicated through the mass media such as TV, radio, newspapers, periodicals, or the Internet. The term was first coined by Clarence Thomas during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings, referring to the allegedly racist remarks by the Democrats in the Senate.
High-temperature superconductivity High-temperature superconductors are generally considered to be those that demonstrate superconductivity at or above the temperature of liquid nitrogen, or −196 °C (77 K), since this is the most easily attainable cryogenic temperature. Conventional superconductors, by contrast, require temperatures no higher than a few degrees above absolute zero (−273.
High-visibility clothing High-visibility clothing is any clothing worn that has highly reflective properties or a color that is easily discernable from any background. Orange hunting vests are a popular example of high-visibility clothing.
High-voltage direct current HVDC or high-voltage, direct current electric power transmission systems contrast with the more common alternating-current systems as a means for the bulk transmission of electrical power. The modern form of HVDC transmission uses technology developed extensively in the 1930s in Sweden at ASEA.
High-yield debt In finance, a high-yield bond (non-investment grade bond or junk bond) is a bond that is rated below investment grade on its date of issuance. These bonds have a higher risk of defaulting, but typically pay high yields in order to make them attractive to investors.
High, middle and low justice High, middle and low justices are notions dating from Western feudalism to indicate descending degrees of judiciary power to administer justice by the maximal punishment the holders could inflict upon their subjects and other dependents.
Highbridge and Burnham railway station Highbridge and Burnham railway station serves the towns of Highbridge and Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, England. The station is operated by First Great Western and is served by their local services (formerly Wessex Trains) and a small number of express services to and from London.
Highbridge Park Highbridge Park is located in Washington Heights on the banks of the Harlem River near the northernmost tip of the New York City borough of Manhattan, between 155th Street and Dyckman Street. The park is operated and maintained by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
Highbridge Skirmish The first engagement of the 1745 Jacobite Uprisings between British Government troops and Jacobites loyal to Prince Charles Edward Stuart took place at Highbridge, Scotland on the River Spean on 16 August 1745. This marked the commencement of hostilities between the two sides.
Highbrow Highbrow is a colloquial synonym for intellectual or high culture, which draws its metonymy from the pseudoscience of phrenology. "Highbrow" can be applied to music, implying most of the classical music tradition and much of post-bebop jazz; to literature, i.
Highburton Highburton is part of Kirkburton a village in the county of West Yorkshire, England, lying five miles southeast of Huddersfield. It was a hamlet until the middle of the 20th century, when housing developments increased the size of the village substantially.
Highbury, Birmingham Highbury, also known as Highbury Hall, now a Grade II* listed building, was commissioned as his Birmingham residence by Joseph Chamberlain in 1878, two years after he became Member of Parliament for Birmingham. The architect was John Henry Chamberlain (no relation) who incorporated much terracotta decoration.
Highclere Castle Highclere Castle is a Victorian country house in high Elizabethan style, with park designed by Capability Brown, in a 24 square kilometre estate south of Newbury, Berkshire, England. It is the country seat of the Herbert family, the Earls of Carnarvon, and the largest mansion in Hampshire.
Highcliffe Highcliffe-on-Sea (usually abbreviated to Highcliffe) is a small town in the borough of Christchurch, Dorset in southern England. It forms part of the South East Dorset conurbation along the English Channel coast.
Highcolour Highcolour graphics (variously spelled Hicolour, Highcolor, and Hicolor, and known as Thousands of colors on a Macintosh) is a method of storing image information in a computer's memory such that each pixel is represented by two bytes. Usually the colour is represented by all 16 bits, but some video chipsets also support 15 bit highcolour.
Highcyde Highcyde is an American alternative rockband from San Jose, California that formed in 2002. The band today consists of Jay Castillo (lead vocals), Tony Thompson (lead guitar), Kristopher Duarte (bass), and Evan "Schlick" Von Rittmann (drums).
Highdown Gardens Highdown Gardens is a beautiful garden overlooking the sea from the South Downs, England. The garden is close to the village of Ferring] and the [[National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty | National Trust archaeological site Highdown Hill.
Higher (song) "Higher" is the first single to be lifted from Creed's 1999 album, Human Clay. Although it is widely believed to be a song about drug-induced hallucinations or a dream of heaven, vocalist Scott Stapp actually wrote the song about the power of lucid dreaming.
Higher (Scottish) In Scotland the Higher is one of the national school-leaving certificate exams and university entrance qualifications of the Scottish Qualifications Certificate (SQC) offered by the Scottish Qualifications Authority which superseded the old Higher Grade on the Scottish Certificate of Education (SCE). Most people refer to both simply as "Highers".
Higher and Higher "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" is a song performed by American R&B artist Jackie Wilson, from his 1967 album of the same name. It was written by Gary Jackson, Raynard Miner and Carl Smith, and produced by Carl Davis.
Higher Attestation Commission Higher Attestation Commission (, abbreviated , VAK) is a name of a national government agency in Russia and some other post-Soviet states that oversees awarding of advanced academic degrees. Due to translation differences, these committees are sometimes translated as the "State Supreme Certification Commission" or other similar variation; the common Cyrillic-based acronym of VAK remains a constant with all versions.
Higher category theory The higher category theory is the part of category theory at a higher-order which means that some equalities are replaced by explicit arrows in order to be able to explicitly study the structure behind those equalities.
Higher criticism Higher criticism, also known as historical criticism, is a branch of literary analysis that attempts to investigate the origins of a text, especially the text of the Bible. Higher criticism, in particular, focuses on the sources of a document and tries to determine the authorship, date and place of composition of the text.
Higher Certificate The Higher Certificate (Ardteastas in Irish) is an award that will replace the National Certificate in the Republic of Ireland of the Higher Education and Training Awards Council and a number of Dublin Institute of Technology certificates.
Higher Colleges of Technology The Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) was established in 1988, and is now the largest institution of higher learning in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with over 16,500 students. During the 2005 - 2006 academic year there were 9897 female and 6641 male students enrolled at 12 campuses throughout the country.
Higher Commercial Examination Programme The Higher Commercial Examination Programme (HHX) is a business-oriented education in Denmark. The 3-year HHX programme requires a completed 9-year folkeskole (primary education) and offers general subjects in addition to business administration, economics, and foreign language.
Higher Consciousness Higher Consciousness - also called Super Consciousness (Yoga), Buddhic Consciousness (Theosophy), Objective Consciousness (Gurdjieff), Christ Consciousness, Cosmic Consciousness and God-consciousness (Islam and Hinduism), to name but a few - are expressions used in various traditions of spiritual science and psychology to denote the consciousness of a human being who has reached a higher level of evolutionary development and who has come to know reality as it is. Evolution in this sense is not that which occurs by natural selection over generations of human reproduction but evolution brought about by the application of spiritual knowledge to the conduct of human life.
Higher education Higher education is education provided by universities, vocational universities (community colleges, liberal arts colleges, and technical colleges, etc.) and other collegial institutions that award academic degrees, such as career colleges.
Higher education in Hong Kong Higher Education in Hong Kong means any education higher than secondary education, including professional, technical and academic. It is the highest level of education in Hong Kong, regulated under Hong Kong Law Education Ordinance (Cap.
Higher education in Iran Iran has a large network of private, public, and state affiliated universities offering degrees in higher education. State-run universities of Iran are under the direct supervision of Iran's Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (for non-medical universities) and Ministry of Health and Medical Education(for medical schools).
Higher education in Portugal Higher education in Portugal is divided into two main subsystems: university and polytechnic education, and it is provided in autonomous public universities, private universities, public or private polytechnic institutions and higher education institutions of other types. In Portugal, the university system has a strong theoretical basis and is highly research-oriented; the polytechnical system provides a more practical training and is profession-oriented.
Higher evolution The term higher evolution is used in Theosophy and in Buddhism to indicate the development of consciousness in human beings, as distinct from, although continuous with, the 'lower' or biological evolution within the animal kingdom up to the human level. Whereas the lower evolution is a biological (and largely unconscious) process, the higher evolution is a psychological, even spiritual, process.
Higher Education (novel) Higher Education is a 1995 science fiction novel by Charles Sheffield and Jerry Pournelle. The novel starts in a future dystopian earth where the United States has become a feudal aristocracy where the public school system is primarily interested in promoting self-esteem rather than learning.
Higher Education and Training Awards Council The Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC) is the legal successor to the National Council for Educational Awards and grants higher education awards in Ireland in the extra-university system; HETAC was created in 2001 under the Qualifications (Education and Training) Act, 1999 (Section 21). HETAC is an institution subject to the policies of the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland and grants qualifications at many Institutes of Technology and other colleges.
Higher Education Academy The Higher Education Academy is an independent organisation in the United Kingdom that supports higher education institutions with strategies for the development of research and evaluation to improve the learning experience for students. It was founded in May 2004, and is funded by grants from four funding bodies in the UK (HEFCE, SHEFC, HEFCW and DELNI, subscriptions from higher education institutions, and grant/contract income for organised initiatives.
Higher Education Act 2004 The Higher Education Act 2004 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which introduced several changes to the higher education system in the United Kingdom. The most important and controversial being a major change to the funding of universities, and the operation of tuition fees, which affects England and Wales.
Higher Education Authority The Higher Education AuthorityThe official name of the authority is "An tÚdarás um Ard-Oideachas" (sometimes shortened to "An tÚdarás"), from Irish, but in practice the unofficial English name, taken from the short title of the enacting legislation, is more widely used. (HEA) is the authority in Ireland with responsibility for higher education since 1968 and placed on a statutory basis in 1971.
Higher Education Commission The Higher Education Commission (HEC), formerly the University Grant Commission, is an organization that facilitates the development of higher educational system in PakistanIts main purpose is to upgrade the Universities of Pakistan] to be world-class centres of education, research and development.
Higher Education for Development Higher Education for Development works in close partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the nation’s six presidential higher education associations to support the involvement of higher education in development issues worldwide.
Higher Education Funding Council for England The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Education and Skills in the United Kingdom which distributes funding to Universities and Colleges of Higher and Further Education in England since 1992. It was created by the Further and Higher Education Act 1992.
Higher Education Loan Authority of the State of Missouri The Higher Education Loan Authority of the State of Missouri, aka the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, or MOHELA, is one of the largest holders and servicers of student loans nationwide. Headquartered in Chesterfield, MO, MOHELA’s mission is to “eliminate barriers for students so they can access higher education.

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