continuing education

1. 1.

   a program of instruction designed primarily for adult students who participate part-time

   Broadereducation

Questions about continuing education

What does continuing education mean?

continuing education means "a program of instruction designed primarily for adult students who participate part-time".

Is continuing education a common word?

continuing education is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.