Style preferences: education terms
- 2:1, 2:2, Third
- A-level
- alumnus, alumni (note that we do not use the terms alumna or alumnae to refer to female students)
- Bachelor’s (not ‘bachelors’ or ‘bachelor’s’)
- coursework
- degree (not Degree)
- Diploma of the Imperial College
- doctoral, doctorate
- fieldwork
- First (not ‘1st’)
- Honours (not ‘honours’)
- Imperial College Union
- Joint Honours
- Master’s (not ‘Masters’ or ‘masters’)
- MBBS
- PhD
- postdoctoral
- postgraduate
- Students' Union (not 'Student Union')
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