"set to learn" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you mean that someone has a goal or resolution to learn something. For example, "He was set to learn as much as possible about computer programming."
On Thursday, Raj Rajaratnam, the highest-profile insider trading defendant, is set to learn his prison term.
Bonus day is upon us, with staff in the world's biggest investment banks set to learn what their fabled "number" will be.
Testimony concluded yesterday in Marty McSorley's assault trial in Vancouver, British Columbia, with the player set to learn the judge's verdict next Friday.
Two of the more colorful characters caught in the government's vast insider trading investigation were sentenced on Wednesday, three weeks before its central figure — Raj Rajaratnam — was set to learn his fate.
Oscar Pistorius is set to learn today whether he will spend time behind bars after being found guilty last month of culpable homicide, following the death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013.
More importantly, Aibo's finally set to learn a few new tricks.
We applied a classification algorithm in a 5-fold cross-validation setting to learn a click-word classification model.
Some students need a classroom setting to learn and benefit from that environment.
Instead, nurses' confidence in learning on these dimensions worsened (while physician's confidence improved) as they moved from thinking about learning in the classroom setting to learning in the real world of the clinical setting.
"We've got to get them back in a mind-set to learn, and that's going to take a little bit of time," said Adrian H. Cline, the superintendent of schools in DeSoto County.
TOKYO, Nov. 15 — Years ago, Japan rose to economic prominence by taking apart American products like cars and television sets to learn how to make them better.
