This glossary is intended to help you understand some of the jargon surrounding education. If the term you require is not listed below email us and we'll include it.
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| ABC | Adult Basic Education | |
| ABS | Adult Basic Skills | |
| AC | Audit Commission | |
| ACE | Adult and Community Education | |
| ACEO | Association of Chief Education Officers | |
| ACL | Adult and Community Learning | |
| ACPC | Area Child Protection Committee | |
| ACS | Average Class Size | |
| AD | Assistant Director | |
| ADHD | Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder | |
| ALI | Adult Learning Inspectorate | |
| ALP | Adult Learning Plan | |
| AM&P | Asset Management and Planning Team | |
| AMG | Annual Maintenance Grant | |
| AMO | Asset Management Officer | |
| AMP | Asset Management Plan | |
| AMSG | Asset Management Strategy Group | |
| APS | Average Points Score | |
| ASB | Aggregated Schools Budget | |
| ASD | Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| AST | Attendance Support Team | |
| AST | Advanced Skills Teacher | |
| ATL | Association of Teachers and Lecturers | |
| AVA | Audio Visual Aid | |
| AWPU | Age-Weighted Pupil Unit | |
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| BACCH | British Association for Community Child Health | |
| BAFO | Best and Final Offer | |
| BEST | Behaviour and Education Support Team | |
| BIP | Behaviour Improvement Programme (in EiC) | |
| BN | Basic Need | |
| BSF | Building Schools for the Future | |
| BSP | Behaviour Support Plan | |
| BST | Behaviour Support Team | |
| BSW | Behaviour Support Worker | |
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| CAD/CAM | Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Manufacture | |
| CAL | Computer Assisted Learning | |
| Capping | Central government putting a limit on the level of council tax a local authority may set to cover the services it would like to provide | |
| CBDS | Common Basic Data Set | |
| CDM | Construction and Design Management (planning regulations for buildings above a certain size) | |
| CE | Community Education Service | |
| CE (A) | Church of England (Aided) school | |
| CE (C) | Church of England (Controlled) school | |
| CE (VA) | Church of England (Voluntary Aided) school | |
| CE (VC) | Church of England (Voluntary Controlled) school | |
| CEE | Consortium for Education Excellence | |
| CFR | Consistent Financial Reporting | |
| Climate | OFSTED terms this as a composite judgement reflecting attitudes to the school, behaviour (including the incidence of exclusions), personal development and relationships, attendance, provision for PSMSC development and procedures for child protection and f | |
| Cluster | Group of schools with a similar socio-economic or attainment level | |
| Collegiates | Voluntary groupings of high schools that collaborate to offer high quality vocational and other courses at KS4. They seek to offer a wider curriculum range than that currently offered by single schools. They can make the best use of existing and future sp | |
| CPD | Continuous professional development – in-service training programme for staff | |
| CTC | City Technology College | |
| CTF | Common Transfer Form | |
| CTSS | Council Tax at Standard Spending | |
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| DBI | Deighton and Brackenhall Initiative | |
| DFC | Devolved Formula Capital | |
| DIP | Data Imaging Process | |
| DLO | Direct Labour Organisation | |
| DMS | Data Management Service | |
| DoLL | Director of Lifelong Learning | |
| DSO | Direct Service Organisation (set up by an LA to compete for contracts with the private sector) | |
| DT | Design Technology | |
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| EA | Education Access | |
| EaE | Excellence and Enjoyment | |
| EAL | English as an Additional Language | |
| Early Years | Pre-reception age pupils | |
| EARS | Exclusions and Reintegration Service | |
| EBD | Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties | |
| EDO | Education Development Officer | |
| EDP | Education Development Plan | |
| EDU | Economic Development Unit | |
| EEL | Early Effective Learning | |
| EFL | English as a Foreign Language | |
| EGC | Education Guidance Committee | |
| EiC | Excellence in Cities | |
| EiC Clusters | Partnerships of identified schools working together to meet the objectives of Ei | |
| EiE | Excellence in Enjoyment | |
| EM | Ethnic Minority | |
| EMA | Ethnic Minority Achievement | |
| EMA | Education Maintenance Allowance | |
| EMAG | Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant - to narrow the achievement gaps for those minority ethnic groups who are underachieving and to meet the particular needs of pupils for whom English is an additional language (EAL). EMAG is a ring fenced grant which must be spent on this purpose. |
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| EMAP | Ethnic Minority Achievement Plan | |
| EMIE | Education Management Information Exchange | |
| EOC | Equal Opportunities Commission | |
| EOTAS | Education Other than at School | |
| ESD | Education for Sustainable Development | |
| ESF | European Social Fund | |
| ESW | Education Social Work(er) | |
| ETA | Education Teaching Assistant | |
| ETHOS | Education for Those Out of School | |
| Extended School(s) | A school which provides a full range of services to the community including childcare, health and welfare alongside its educational role | |
| EYU | Early Years Unit | |
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| FASTLANE | Families and schools together, literacy and numeracy for everyone | |
| FFT | Fischer Family Trust – an independent, non-profit organisation involved in carrying out and supporting projects addressing the development of education in the UK | |
| FOI | Freedom of Information | |
| FS | Foundation Stage | |
| FSES | Full Service Extended School(s) | |
| FSM | Free School Meals | |
| FSP | Foundation Stage Profile (Early Years and Reception) | |
| FSSG | Foundation Stage Steering Group | |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol | |
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| G&T | Gifted and Talented | |
| GCSE | General Certificate of Secondary Education | |
| GNVQ | General National Vocational Qualifications | |
| GOYH | Government Office for Yorkshire and the Humber | |
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| HCPG | Headteacher Cross-Phase Group | |
| HE | Higher Education | |
| Headlamp | Initiative providing support to new headteachers | |
| HEFCE | Higher Education Funding Council for England | |
| HI | Hearing Impaired | |
| HLTA | Higher Level Teaching Assistant | |
| HMCI | Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector | |
| HMI | Her Majesty’s Inspector(ate) | |
| HoS | Hands-on Support | |
| HP | Huddersfield Pride | |
| HR | Human Resources | |
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| I | ||
| ICT | Information and Communication Technology | |
| IEP | Individual Education Plan | |
| IIE | Investing in Excellence | |
| IIP | Investors in Pupils | |
| IM | Information Management | |
| IMS | Information Management Strategy | |
| INSET | In-Service Training | |
| IQ | Intelligence Quotient | |
| IRT | Identification, Referral and Tracking Project now ISA | |
| ISA | Information Sharing and Assessment | |
| ISB | Individual Schools’ Budget | |
| ITCAS | Information Technology Curriculum and Administration Support | |
| ITS | Information and Technology Service | |
| IYCE | Involving Young Citizens Equally | |
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| JD | Job Description | |
| JRS | Judgement Recording Statement (as used by OFSTED) | |
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| KCOL | Kirklees Communities Online | |
| KESS | Kirklees Education Support Service | |
| KFMS | Kirklees Financial Management System (superseded by MPGL) | |
| KHSH | Kirklees High School Heads | |
| KHSS | Kirklees Healthy School Standard | |
| KMSH | Kirklees Middle School Heads | |
| KPH | Kirklees Primary Heads | |
| KS1 | Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) | |
| KS1-4 | Key Stages of the National Curriculum | |
| KS2 | Key Stage 2 (Years 3, 4, 5 and 6) | |
| KS3 | Key Stage 3 (Years 7, 8 and 9) | |
| KS4 | Key Stage 4 (Years 10 and 11) | |
| KS5 | Key Stage 5 (Years 12 and 13) | |
| KSSH | Kirklees Special School Heads | |
| KTPB | Kirklees Teenage Pregnancy Board | |
| KTPS | Kirklees Teenage Pregnancy Strategy | |
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| LAN | Local Area Network | |
| LAP | Local Area Plan | |
| LD | Learning Difficulties | |
| LA | Local Authority (also the council) | |
| LES | LAN Extension Services | |
| LI | Language Impairment | |
| LIG | Leadership Incentive Grant | |
| LLRG | Lifelong Learning Resources Group | |
| LM | Learning Mentor | |
| LMS | Local Management of Schools | |
| LMSS | Local Management of Special Schools | |
| LP | Learning Partnership | |
| LPS | Local Policy Statement | |
| LSA | Learning Support Assistant | |
| LSC | Learning and Skills Council (responsible for funding and planning education and training for 16+) | |
| LSR | Land Supply Review | |
| LSU | Learning Support Unit | |
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| MAST | Management, Advice, Support and Training/Multi-Agency Support Team | |
| MCI | Management Charter Initiative | |
| MFL | Modern Foreign Language(s) | |
| MLD | Moderate Learning Difficulties | |
| MLE | Managed Learning Environment | |
| MoU | Memorandum of Understanding | |
| MSUS | Microsoft Software Update Server | |
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| NAHT | National Association of Headteachers | |
| NAS/UWT | National Association of Schoolmasters and Women Teachers | |
| NC | National Curriculum | |
| NDS | New Deal for Schools (in relation to capital funding) | |
| NEC | National Extension College | |
| New Approaches | A funding system which puts extra money into schools to give early help to pupils with special educational needs (which fits in with the SEN Code of Practice) | |
| NNI | Neighbourhood Nursery Initiative | |
| NNS | National Numeracy Strategy | |
| NOR | Number on Roll (number of pupils in a school) | |
| NPQH | National Professional Qualification for Headship | |
| NQT | Newly-Qualified Teacher | |
| NQTS | Newly-Qualified Teacher Status | |
| NRA | National Record of Achievement | |
| NRF | Neighbourhood Renewal Fund; Extra funding for the 88 poorest LA districts | |
| NRS | Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy | |
| NTA | Non-Teaching Assistant | |
| NTS | Non-Teaching Support | |
| NUT | National Union of Teachers | |
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| OCR | Optical Character Recognition | |
| ODPM | Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (with many of the duties of the former DoETR) | |
| OFSTED | Office for Standards in Education – a non-ministerial government department, independent from the DfES whose purpose is to improve standards of achievement and the quality of education through regular inspections and public reports. | |
| OLEA | Other Local Education Authorities | |
| OOSHL | Out of School Hours Learning | |
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| PAA | Priority Admission Area | |
| PAL | Planned Admission Limit | |
| PAN | Published Admission Number | |
| PANDA | Performance and Assessment Report | |
| PCT | Primary Care Trust | |
| PDA | Personal Digital Assistant | |
| PE | Physical Education | |
| PFI | Private Finance Initiative. Private sector involvement in the provision of facilities which will then be run by a public body | |
| PfS | Playing for Success – centres at Huddersfield Town Football Club and Batley Bulldogs Rugby League Football Club | |
| PGCE | Post-Graduate Certificate in Education | |
| PH | Physically Handicapped | |
| PHAB | Physically Handicapped and Able Bodied | |
| Plain Language | Standards for producing written information that is easy for both our customers and colleagues to understand | |
| PLASC | Pupil Level Annual School Census | |
| PM | Performance Management | |
| PMLD | Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties | |
| PPA | Planning, Preparation and Assessment | |
| PPP1 | Public Private Partnership 1 (involving 20 schools) | |
| PPP2 | Public Private Partnership 2 (involving the reorganisation of special schools) | |
| PRG | Planning and Review Group/Pupil Retention Grant | |
| PRS | Pupil Referral Service | |
| PRU | Pupil Referral Unit | |
| PS | Pupil Support Service | |
| PSHCE | Personal Social Health & Citizenship Education | |
| PSMSC | Personal, Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development (OFSTED terminology) | |
| PTR | Pupil Teacher Ratio | |
| Pyramid | A group of schools (Primary/First/Middle) which feed into a local High School | |
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| QCA | Qualifications and Curriculum Authority | |
| QoS | Quality of Service | |
| QTS | Qualified Teacher Status | |
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| RAISE | Raising Achievement in School Education | |
| RC (A) | Roman Catholic (Aided) school | |
| RE | Religious Education | |
| RoA | Record of Achievement | |
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| SACRE | Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education | |
| SAI | School Access Initiative | |
| SATs | Standard Attainment Tasks and Tests | |
| SCE (C) | Supported Capital Expenditure (Capital) | |
| SCE (R) | Supported Capital Expenditure (Revenue) | |
| SCO | School Contact Officer | |
| SDE | Sustainable Development Education | |
| SDP | School Development Plan | |
| SEBD | Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties/Severe Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties | |
| SEN Code of Practice | DfES guidance for schools and LEAs on identifying and assessing special educational needs | |
| SENCO | Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator | |
| SF | Standards Fund | |
| SFSS | Schools formula spending shares | |
| SFWG | School Funding Working Group (now Schools Forum) | |
| SHA | Secondary Headteachers’ Association | |
| Single Status | Local government conditions of service incorporating formal manual and APT&C | |
| SIP | School Improvement Plan | |
| SISG | School Improvement Strategy Group | |
| SIT | Social Inclusion Team | |
| SLD | Severe learning difficulties | |
| SOC | School Organisation Committee | |
| SOP | School Organisation Plan | |
| SoP | Statement of Priorities | |
| SPICED | School partnerships in children’s education in drugs | |
| SS | Social Services | |
| SSA | Standard spending assessment – central government’s theoretical calculations of the amounts local authorities should spend to provide a standard level of service across the country (now FSS) | |
| SSL | Secure sockets layer | |
| SSLP | Sure Start local programmes | |
| SSMG | Services to Schools Monitoring Group (no longer exists – duties now dealt with by Schools Forum) | |
| SWENs | Schools with Exceptional Needs | |
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| T&L | Teaching and Learning | |
| TA | Teaching Assistant | |
| TALL | Together All Live and Learn – a project in the Fartown pyramid of schools | |
| TCF | Targeted Capital Fund | |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol | |
| TCR | Teacher Contact Ratio | |
| TIPD | Teachers’ International Professional Development Programme | |
| TLA | Three Letter Acronym | |
| TLF | Teaching and Learning Foundation | |
| TSE | Transforming secondary education | |
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| UCR | Urban Capacity Review | |
| UFA | University of the First Age | |
| UPN | Unique Pupil Number | |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator | |
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| VA | Voluntary Aided (school) | |
| VC | Voluntary Controlled (school) | |
| VCG | Vulnerable Children Grant - to secure improved access for vulnerable children to provide quliaty education for those unable to attaned school or whose circumstances make it difficult for them to do so, to support attendance, integration, or reintegration into school and to provide additional education support to enable children to achieve their potential. Key groups are Looked after Children; Asylum Seeker children; Traveller Children; teenage parents; young carers; school refusers and reintegration of young offenders. | |
| VFM | Value for Money | |
| VI | Visually Impaired | |
| VLE | Virtual Learning Environment | |
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| WAN | Wide Area Network | |
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| YHGfL | Yorkshire and Humberside Grid for Learning | |