college kids

I have terrible difficulty discerning the meaning of 'college'. It seems to mean different things in different countries.

If it counts, I attend university.

Agreed that college is different. Where I come from it's between 16 and 18, in between Secondary School and University. Totally different from Canada and the US I think.

I did go to college in the UK, that was a while ago though. What is college in the US, when do you go there and why?

I go to college in the U.K

Plus there's the distinction between community college, university, and institute, I'm told.

In Canada "college" means community college, university means... university. I work at a unversity, does that count?

In the UK college seems to so be like CEGEP in Quebec (that's where the Dawson College shootings happened - foreign news outlets just called it a college for lack of a better explaination)

So in Canada:

High School (formally called Secondary School)
then (community) College or University

in the UK and Quebec

Secondary school
College/CEGEP
University

in the US:

High school
College or community college (is that the distinction??? or is there no distinction between a university level college and a community college?)

Well I finished college in a university... that sums up pretty much how we interpret it here...

I attend a community college instead of my high school. I guess that makes me a college kid.

I don't think there's a real distinction between a university and college here. People say they go to college. If they said they go to university (never heard that in my life), they would get weird looks. University definitely sounds cooler, like you’re some big hot-shot smarty pants, but besides in the formal name of the school like University of Washington (go huskies!) or Washington State University they are usually called colleges.

Well, I feel enlightened now. College is completely seperate to University in the UK, it's two years in between Secondary (or High) School and University. Bit odd really. They do the same thing in Quebec in Canada, except it's called 'Sejep'.

CEGEP, sweetie, I explained that above

Community College is more of a '2 year school' after High School where you would either get your Associates Degree or take classes so that you could transfer to a '4 year school'/University.

Some states, like Florida, have made it so that if you graduate from a Community College a state run University, such as Florida State University, must accept you. This is good for those that are not accepted to a high quality state run University right out of High School.

::edit:: Forgot to mention that this is for the US. I don't know about anywhere else

Oh, okay, so it is sort of like in the UK then?? So what about people who take, say basic computer skills so they can go on to do office work or things like that? In Canada, anything on a practial level is learned at community college. Graphic design is, for example (although IMO it shouldn't be - there are some university programs popping up now). There are college level engineering programs but those would not be even close to the same as a university program. Also health technicians (not Registered nurses but practical health care), radio & TV broadcasting, a lot of trades (automotive, welding, things like that), some IT programs (would be called "computer technician" or something not "computer science"), a lot of business programs (but again, not the same as university level), that sort of thing.

Some colleges are now able to grant degrees in some progorams but most just have diploma's. They are normally 2-3 year programs but most people don't go on to university afterwards. Some do, and I think more opportunities are being developed for college students to transfer up to University.