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Education and Curriculum Terms: A Guide for Students and Teachers
Please note: This page explains a word or a process in education. It is general information about the system, the law and the guidance in England — not advice about your child, your school or your exam. If a decision is going against you, get advice from one of the free services we link to before you agree to anything or miss a deadline. If you are revising, check your own exam board's specification: boards word things differently and yours is the one that marks you.
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7 terms filed under U.
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Understanding a professional report
Reports about your child are written for other professionals. You are allowed to ask what they mean.
Uniform and appearance policy
What a school requires pupils to wear, and the limits on enforcing it.
Unseen poetry
A poem you have never read before, analysed in the exam. Method beats knowledge.
Urban regeneration
Rebuilding a run-down urban area, and who it is for.
Urbanisation
The growing share of people living in cities, and what follows from it.
Utility
How useful a source is for a specific enquiry. Not the same as how reliable it is.
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