higher education vs instruction

higher education and instruction both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
higher education	Yes	No	No	No
instruction	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, instruction is a hypernym of higher education; that is, instruction is a word with a broader meaning than higher education:

higher education: education provided by a college or university
instruction: the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill

Other hypernyms of higher education include didactics, education, educational activity, pedagogy, teaching.

higher education (noun)	instruction (noun)
education provided by a college or university	the profession of a teacher
	the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
	(computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
	a message describing how something is to be done