| A & I |
Advice and Inspection |
| A LEVEL |
Advanced Level |
| AAP |
Assessment of Achievement Programme |
| ABE |
Adult Basic Education |
| ACAS |
Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. Independent body that aims to mediate in industrial disputes. |
| ACG |
Annual capital guidelines |
| ACPC |
Area Child Protection Committee |
| ACPI |
Audit Commission Performance Indicator |
| ACS |
Average Class Size |
| AD |
Assistant Director |
| ADCE |
Advanced Diploma in Children's Care and Education |
| ADD |
Attention Deficit Disorder |
| ADES |
Association of Directors of Education in Scotland |
| ADEW |
Association of Directors of Education in Wales |
| ADHD |
Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder |
| AE |
Adult Education |
| AE |
Advanced Extension |
| AEN |
Additional Educational Needs |
| AF |
Admission Forum |
| AFASIC |
Association For All Speech Impaired Children |
| AHA |
Area Health Authority |
| AHT |
Association of Headteachers in Scotland |
| AHT |
Assistant Headteacher (Scotland) |
| AHTS |
Association of Headteachers in Scotland |
| AIS |
Advisory and Inspection Service |
| ALF |
Activity-led funding |
| ALI |
Adult Learning Inspectorate |
| ALIS |
A Level Information Service - University based statistical analysis of A level results based on pupils past performance at GCSE to help schools to predict likely future results. |
| ALS |
Additional Literacy Support |
| AMP |
Asset Management Plan |
| AoT |
Adults other than teachers |
| APEL |
Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning |
| APL |
Accreditation of Prior Learning |
| APT |
Assistant Principal Teacher (Scotland) |
| APT&C |
Administrative, Professional, Technical and Clerical Grades |
| ARP |
Additional Responsibility Points (for Teachers) |
| AS |
Advanced Subsidiary Examination |
| ASB |
Aggregated Schools Budget |
| ASB |
Actual Schools Budget (Wales) |
| ASC |
Average Class Size |
| ASD |
Autistic Spectrum Disorder |
| ASDAN |
Award Scheme Development and Accreditation Network |
| ASPI |
All Schools Performance Index |
| AST |
Advanced Skills Teacher |
| AT |
Attainment Target |
| AT |
Advisory Teacher |
| ATL |
Association of Teachers and Lecturers (previously AMMA) |
| ATO |
Approved Training Organisation |
| AVA |
Audio Visual Aids |
| AWPU |
Age Weighted Pupil Unit. The sum of money allocated to school for each pupil. |
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| C&G |
City & Guilds |
| C4L |
Consortium for Learning |
| CADES |
Community Alcohol and Drugs Education Service |
| CAL |
Computer Assisted Learning |
| CASE |
Cognitive Acceleration in Science Education |
| CATs |
Cognitive Ability Tests |
| CBOS |
Common Basic Data Set |
| CC |
Cwricwlwm Cymraeg (Wales) |
| CC |
Capital Challenge |
| CCC |
Consultative Council on the Curriculum (Scotland) |
| CCET |
Community Consortia for Education and Training (Wales) |
| CCT |
Compulsory Competitive Tendering |
| CCTA |
City College for the Technology of the Arts |
| CDC |
Curriculum Development Centre |
| CDL |
Career Development Loan |
| CEC |
Catholic Education Commission |
| CEG |
Careers Education and Guidance |
| CEO |
Chief Education Officer |
| CER |
Community Education and Regeneration |
| CF |
Challenge Funding |
| CFE |
College of Further Education |
| CFF |
Common Funding Formula |
| CFPM |
Children's Fund Project Manager |
| CFR |
Continual Financial Recording |
| CHE |
College of Higher Education |
| CIF |
Common Inspection Framework (for post-16 Education and Training) |
| CIS |
Children's Information Service |
| CIS |
Controlled Integrated School (N. Ireland) |
| CLS |
Community Learning Scotland |
| CM |
Command Paper |
| CoA |
Certificate of Achievement (MEG/OCR) |
| Cons |
Consultant |
| COOS |
Children out of school |
| CoP |
Code of Practice |
| COSHH |
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health |
| COSLA |
Convention of Scottish Local Authorities |
| CPC |
Child Protection Committee |
| CPD |
Continuing Professional Development (of teachers) |
| CPS |
Common Pay Spine (for teachers) |
| CQSW |
Certificate of Qualification in Social Work |
| CRE |
Commission for Racial Equality |
| CSA |
Child Support Assistant |
| CSP |
Children's Service Plan |
| CSR |
Continuous Student Record |
| CST |
Curriculum Support Teachers |
| CSYS |
Certificate of Sixth Year Studies (Scotland) |
| CTC |
City Technology College |
| CTF |
Common transfer form |
| CYPIPC |
Children and Young People in Public Care |
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| E2E |
Entry to Employment |
| E2L |
English as a Second Language |
| EAF |
Education Action Forums |
| EAL |
English as an Additional Language |
| EAZ |
Education Action Zone |
| EBD |
Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties |
| EBL |
Education Business Links |
| EBN |
Exceptional Basic Need |
| EBP |
Education Business Partnership |
| ECYPPC |
Education of Children and Young People in Public Care |
| EDI |
Electronic Data Interchange |
| EDI |
Employee Development Interviews |
| EDO |
Education Development Officer |
| EDP |
Education Development Plan (EDP2 - Second EDP) a major strategic planning document required by each LEA |
| EDPM |
Education Development Plan Manager |
| EDRU |
Education Department Research Unit (Scotland) |
| EDS |
Education Development Service |
| EDSI |
Education Departments' Superhighway Initiative |
| EDT |
Education Development Target |
| EEC |
Early Excellence Centre |
| EFL |
English as a Foreign Language |
| EFQM |
European Framework for Quality Management |
| EiC |
Excellence in Cities |
| EIP |
Early Intervention Programme |
| EIS |
Education Institute in Scotland |
| ELB |
Education and Library Board (N. Ireland) |
| ELG |
Early Learning Goals |
| ELWa |
Council for Education and Learning in Wales |
| EMA |
Education Maintenance Allowance |
| EMAG |
Ethnic Minorities Achievement Grant |
| EMIE |
Education Management Information Exchange |
| EMS |
Education Management System (database) |
| EMU |
Education for Mutual Understanding (N. Ireland) |
| ENTO |
Employers National Training Organisation |
| EO |
Education Officer |
| EO |
Equal Opportunities |
| EOTAS |
Education Otherwise Than At School |
| EP/Ed Psych |
Educational Psychologist |
| ERA |
Education Reform Act (1988) |
| ERO |
Education Reform (NI) Order 1989 (N. Ireland) |
| ESD |
Electronic Service Delivery |
| ESF |
European Social Fund |
| ESL |
English as a Second Language |
| ESO |
Education Supervision Order |
| ESOL |
English for Speakers of Other Languages |
| ESP |
Education Strategy Plan (Wales) |
| ESW |
Education Social Worker |
| ETI |
Education and Training Inspectorate (N. Ireland) |
| EWO |
Education Welfare Officer. Provide a link between school and home particularly when there are problems associated with attendance |
| EWS |
Education Welfare Service |
| EY |
Early Years |
| EYDCP |
Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership |
| EYDCP |
Early Years Development and Childcare Plan |
| EYU |
Early Years Unit |
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| GA |
General Adviser |
| GA (EY) |
General Adviser (Early Years) |
| GA (KS3) |
Key Stage 3 Strategy Manager |
| GAAP |
General Accepted Accounting Principles |
| GAE |
Grant Aided Expenditure (Scotland) |
| GAL |
Guardian Ad Litem |
| GCSE |
General Certificate of Secondary Education - the main qualification sat by pupils normally at the end of key stage 4 (16 year olds) |
| GEST |
Grants for Education Support and Training ( see 'Standards Fund') |
| GF |
General Funding (of a Local Authority) |
| GIS |
Geographic Information Systems |
| GM |
Grant Maintained |
| GMIS |
Grant Maintained Integrated Status |
| GMS |
Grant Maintained School |
| GNVQ |
General National Vocational Qualifications. Vocational qualification run normally as an alternative to 'A' level / GCSE |
| GO |
Government Officer (for a given city or region) |
| GRE |
Grant Related Expenditure |
| GRICS |
Grant Reduction of Infant Class Sizes (Wales) |
| GRTP |
Graduate and Registered Teacher Programme |
| GSB |
General Schools Budget |
| GSC |
Governor Services Co-ordinator |
| GSVQ |
General Scottish Vocational Qualification |
| GTC |
General Teaching Council |
| GTCS |
General Teaching Council Scotland |
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| IAL |
Indicated Admissions Limit |
| IAP |
Individual Action Plan |
| IB |
International Baccalaureate |
| ICSP |
Infant Class Size Plan |
| ICT |
Information and Communication Technology |
| ICTNS |
National ICT Strategy Plan (KS3) |
| ICTSM |
ICT Strategy Manager (DK) |
| IEA |
Independent External Adjudicator |
| IEP |
Individual Education Plan |
| IEP |
Individualised Education Programme (Scotland) |
| IIP |
Investors In People a 'kite mark' for organisations with a commitment to staff development. |
| IIYP |
Investors In Young People a careers education initiative on similar lines to IIP. |
| ILA |
Individual Learning Account |
| ILT |
Information and Learning Technology (FE) |
| IM |
Information Manager |
| IMS |
Information Management Strategy |
| INSET |
In-service education and training (for teachers) |
| IPS |
Independent Parental Supporter |
| ISB |
Individual School's Budget |
| ISR |
Individual School Range |
| IT |
Information Technology |
| ITE |
Initial Teacher Education |
| ITT |
Initial Teacher Training - Training for students aspiring to qualify as teachers provided as a partnership between Colleges/Universities and Schools |
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| L1, etc |
Leadership (Pay) Scale or Spine, Point 1, etc |
| LAC |
Looked After Children |
| LDD |
Learning Difficulties and Disabilities |
| LEA |
Local Education Authority |
| LEAWARDS |
Local Education Authority Award System |
| LEC |
Local Enterprise Company (Scotland) |
| LES |
Local Education Strategy |
| LGIP |
Local Government Improvement Project |
| LIFE |
Learning is for Everyone (Wales) |
| LIP |
Local Information Plan |
| LLDP |
Lifelong Learning Development Plan |
| LMCE |
Local Management in Community Education |
| LMI |
Labour Market Information |
| LMS |
Local Management of Schools under which schools manage their own budgets. This has been enhanced/replaced by 'fair funding'. |
| LMSS |
Local Management of Special Schools |
| LPSA |
Local Public Service Agreement |
| LPSH |
Leadership Programme for Serving Heads |
| LS |
Leadership (Pay) Scale or Spine |
| LSA |
Learning Support Assistant |
| LSB |
Local Schools Budget |
| LSC |
Learning and Skills Council |
| LSDA |
Learning and Skills Development Agency |
| LSM |
Literacy Strategy Manager |
| LSP |
Local Strategic Partnership |
| LSP |
Learning Schools Programme |
| LTS |
Learning and Teaching Scotland |
| LW or LWA |
London Weighting or London Weighting Allowance |
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| NA or NAW |
National Assembly (of Wales) |
| NAED |
National Assembly Education Department (Wales) |
| NAGM |
National Association of Governors and Managers |
| NAHT |
National Association of Head Teachers |
| NAI |
Non-Accidental Injury |
| NASUWT |
National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers |
| NATECLA |
National Association for Teachers of English and Community Languages |
| NC |
National Curriculum |
| NCB |
National Children's Bureau |
| NCPTA |
National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations |
| NCS |
National Community School (Scotland) |
| NCS |
National Childcare Strategy |
| NCSL |
National College for School Leadership |
| NCVQ |
National Council for Vocational Qualifications - see QCA. |
| NDO |
National Development Officer (Target setting for children with SEN) (Scotland) |
| NDPB |
Non-Departmental Public Body |
| NDS |
New Deal for Schools |
| NERS |
National Exclusion Reporting System |
| NETT |
National Education and Training Targets |
| NFER |
National Foundation for Educational Research - associated with many schools' baseline testing |
| NGFL |
National Grid for Learning |
| NIC |
Northern Ireland Curriculum |
| NLS |
National Literacy Strategy |
| NLS |
National Literacy Strategy Plan |
| NMSS |
Non-maintained special school (Scotland) |
| NNEB |
National Nursery Examination Board |
| NNP |
Non-maintained special school (Scotland) |
| NNS |
National Numeracy Strategy Plan |
| NO |
Named Officer |
| NOF |
New Opportunities Fund |
| NOR |
Number on Roll |
| NP |
Named Person (see also IPS) |
| NPP |
National Partnership Protocol |
| NPQ |
National Professional Qualification |
| NPQH |
National Professional Qualification for Headteachers - qualification aimed at preparing teachers for the demands of Headship |
| NPS |
National Pay Spine (for teachers) |
| NQT |
Newly Qualified Teacher - a teacher in their first year after gaining qualified teacher status |
| NRA |
National Records of Achievement |
| NRF |
Neighbourhood Renewal Fund |
| NRS |
Neighbourhood Renewal Scheme |
| NSM |
Numeracy Strategy Manager (JP) |
| NSS |
National Science Strategy Plan (KS3) |
| NSSEN |
Non-Statemented Special Educational Needs |
| NTA |
National Training Award |
| NTA |
Non-Teaching Assistant |
| NTDP |
National Training Development Plan |
| NTO |
National Training Organisation |
| NUT |
National Union of Teachers |
| NVQ |
National Vocational Qualification |
| NWPU |
Needs Weighted Pupil Unit |
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| P1, P2 etc |
Primary 1, Primary 2 etc (Scotland) |
| PAL |
Published Admissions Limit |
| PANDA |
Performance and Assessment Report |
| PAT |
Professional Association of Teachers |
| PB |
Pupil Behaviour |
| PDP |
Professional Development Plan |
| PDPR |
Personal development and performance review |
| PEDAL |
Peer Education Drugs and Alcohol Project |
| PEO |
Principal Education Officer |
| PEWO |
Principal Education Welfare Officer |
| PFI |
Private Finance Initiative |
| PFS |
Playing for Success |
| PGCE |
Post Graduate Certificate in Education - qualification gained by teachers who have previously followed a traditional degree level qualification |
| PI |
Performance Indicators |
| PIAP |
Post-Inspection Action Plan |
| PICSI |
Pre-Inspection Context and School Indicator |
| PIPS |
Performance Indicators for Primary Schools |
| PIT |
Policy and Information Team |
| PIT |
Pupil Inclusion Team |
| PIT |
Pool of Inactive Teachers |
| PLASC |
Pupil Level Annual School Census |
| PMLD |
Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties |
| POS |
Programme of Study |
| PPI |
Public Performance Indicator |
| PPO |
Parent Partnership Officer |
| PPP |
Public Private Partnership |
| PPS |
Parent Partnership Scheme |
| PRG |
Pupil Retention Grants |
| PRG |
Pupil Retention Grants |
| PRO |
Performance Review Officer |
| PRP |
Performance Related Pay |
| PRU |
Pupil Referral Unit |
| PS |
Partially Sighted |
| PSA |
Public Service Agreement |
| PSE |
Personal and Social Education |
| PSHE |
Personal, Social and Health Education |
| PSP |
Personal Support Plan |
| PSP |
Pastoral Support Programme |
| PSS |
Personal Social Services |
| PT |
Part-time |
| PT |
Principal Teacher (Scotland) |
| PTA |
Parent Teacher Association |
| PTR |
Pupil teacher ratio - obtained by dividing the number of pupils by the number of teachers. |
| PYO |
Principal Youth Officer |
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| RAMP |
Regional Accreditation and Moderation Panels (for Youth Service Training) |
| RBL |
Resource-based learning (Scotland) |
| RCSLT |
Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists |
| RDA |
Regional Development Agency |
| RDICT |
Regional Director Information Communication Technology |
| RDL |
Regional Director Literacy |
| RDN |
Regional Director Numeracy |
| RDS |
Regional Director Science |
| RDTLF |
Regional Director Teaching and Learning in the Foundation Subjects |
| REACH |
Record of Achievement |
| REE |
Register of Educational Establishments |
| RI or RgI |
Registered Inspector. A person authorised by OFSTED to lead a team of inspectors. |
| RIA |
Regulatory Impact Assessment (under DDA, Part 3) |
| RoA |
Record of Achievement - an on-going document belonging to each pupil which contains a record of all the pupils achievements in and out of school, academic and non academic. |
| RSG |
Revenue Support Grant |
| RSI |
Repetitive Strain Injury |
| RSM |
Recruitment Strategy Manager |
| RSSI |
Raising School Standards Initiative (N. Ireland) |
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| S1, S2 etc |
Secondary 1, Secondary 2 etc (Scotland) |
| SA |
Senior Adviser |
| SA |
Special Agreement |
| SACRE |
Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education |
| SAI |
Schools Access Initiative |
| SAO |
School Attendance Order |
| SAR |
Specialist Advisers for Recruitment |
| SAT |
Standard Assessment Tasks |
| SATs |
Standard Assessment Tasks (or Tests) - the principal means of testing at the end of key stages. |
| SCA |
Supplementary Credit Approval |
| SCAA |
School Curriculum and Assessment Authority - see QCA. |
| SCC |
Schools in Challenging Circumstances |
| SCD |
Severe Communication Difficulties |
| SCF |
Scottish Credit Framework |
| SCIS |
Scottish Council of Independent Schools |
| SCIT |
School-centred Initial Teacher Training |
| SCOTVEC |
Scottish Vocational Education Certificate |
| SCQF |
Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework |
| SCRE |
Scottish Council for Research in Education |
| SDF |
Service Development Fund |
| SDP |
School Development Plan - the main whole school strategic planning document. |
| SDPR |
Staff Development and Performance Review (N. Ireland) |
| SE |
Scottish Executive |
| SECC |
Schools in Exceptionally Challenging Circumstances |
| SEED |
Scottish Executive Education Department |
| SEELLD |
Scottish Executive Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department |
| SEN |
Special Educational Needs |
| SENCO |
Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator - teacher with specific responsibility for SEN in school. |
| SEND |
Special Educational Needs Database |
| SENDA |
Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001 |
| SENIMS |
Special Educational Needs in Mainstream Schools |
| SENSS |
Special Educational Needs Support Service |
| SENT |
Special Educational Needs Tribunal |
| SEP |
Senior Educational Psychologist |
| SEU |
Standards and Effectiveness Unit (DfES) |
| SEU |
Social Exclusion Unit (Cabinet Office) |
| SEWO |
Senior Education Welfare Officer |
| SF |
Standards Fund |
| SFCC |
Schools facing challenging circumstances |
| SFEFC |
Scottish Further Education Funding Council |
| SFM |
Standard Figure of Maintenance |
| SG |
Standard Grade (Scotland) |
| SHA |
Secondary Heads Association |
| SHA |
Scottish Headteachers' Association |
| SILO |
Schools Industry Liaison Officer |
| SIMS |
Schools Information Management System - a computer software package to assist schools in managing information on pupils, staff and resources. |
| SIP |
School Improvement Plan |
| SIPS |
School Inclusion: Pupil Support |
| SIT |
School Improvement Team |
| SKILL |
National Bureau for Students with Disabilities |
| SLA |
Service Level Agreement |
| SLA |
Service Level Agreement. A contract for a service between the local authority and a school. |
| SLD |
Severe learning difficulty/disability |
| SLDD |
Student with Learning Difficulty and/or Disability |
| SLS |
School Library Service |
| SLT |
Speech and Language Therapy |
| SLT |
Speech & Language Therapist |
| SLTA |
Speech and Language Therapy Assistant |
| SM |
Strategy Manager |
| SMT |
Senior Management Team |
| SN |
Standard Number |
| SN |
Special Needs |
| SNA |
Special Needs Assistant |
| SNCT |
Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers |
| SNIP |
Special Needs Improvement Plan |
| SNS |
Standard National Scale - the pay scale for classroom teachers, those with extra responsibilities gain added 'points' e.g. SNS+2 |
| SO |
Statistics Officer |
| SOC |
School Organisation Committee |
| SoC |
School of Concern |
| SOP |
School Organisation Plan |
| SpLD |
Specific Learning Difficulty |
| SPPA |
Scottish Preschool Play Association |
| SQA |
Scottish Qualifications Authority |
| SQC |
Scottish Qualifications Certificate |
| SQH |
Scottish Qualification for Headship |
| SRB |
Single Regeneration Budget |
| SRCF |
Schools Renewal Challenge Fund |
| SRSM |
School Requiring Special Measures |
| SSA |
Standard Spending Assessment- a statement by central government of what a local authority needs to spend in a particular year. |
| SSBA |
Scottish School Board Association |
| SSD |
Social Services Department |
| SSFA |
School Standards and Framework Act |
| SSI |
Social Services Inspectorate |
| SSI |
Specialist Schools Initiative |
| SSP |
Starting Salary Point |
| SSTA |
Scottish Secondary Teachers Association |
| STA |
Specialist Teacher Assistant |
| STAR |
Specialist Teacher Assistants' Record |
| STO |
Statutory Transfer Order |
| STPCD |
School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document |
| Sufl |
Scottish University for Industry |
| SVQ |
Scottish Vocational Qualification |
| SWSW |
Schools with Serious Weaknesses |
| SYS |
Sixth Year Studies (Scotland) |
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