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/jˌunəvˈərsəti ɪkstˈɛnʃən/ Listen

University extension

noun

An educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students. Synonyms: extension, extension service.

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... pause, during which Walden, baring his head as he passed in, entered the sacred edifice. He became aware of Sir Morton Pippitt standing in the attitude of a University Extension lecturer near the sarcophagus in the middle of the chancel, with the Reverend Mr. Leveson and a couple of other men near him, while two more strangers were studying the groined roof with critical curiosity. As he approached, Sir Morton made a rapid ...

— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli

... lecturers who should go to the Franciscan friaries in the chief towns in England and Wales and teach friars and clergy the art of popular preaching. Friar John of Wales was one of the chief inspirers of the "University Extension" movement of the Middle Ages. These popular preachers or lecturers did not do much for the advancement of sound learning, because they did not study any science for its own sake, but only for the moral lessons they could ...

— Mediaeval Wales - Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures • A. G. Little

Words linked to "University extension" : teaching, extension service, education, extension course, instruction, pedagogy, didactics, educational activity