my $string = '<School type="content" name="Schoolpage"><section name="
+Graduation"><grade name="Iyear"><description>'; 

if($string=~ m/<section [^>]+>/)
{
    print "Here :: $& \n";
}
else
{
    print "regex failed";
}
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Output:

Here :: <section name="Graduation">
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