Education A to Z

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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500 terms, showing 141–150 (page 15 of 50).

E

English as an additional language

A pupil whose first language is not English. Not a special educational need.

English exam technique

Also called Timing, Exam survival

How to spend the minutes. The most transferable thing you can revise for English.

Enjambment

Also called Run-on line, End-stopped line, Caesura

A sentence running over the end of a line of poetry without a pause.

Enzymes

Biological catalysts. Specific, and easily destroyed.

EOTAS

Also called Education otherwise than at school, Section 61

A package of education arranged outside any school, named in an EHCP. Rare, and a genuine option.

EPQ

Also called Extended Project Qualification

A self-directed project worth half an A Level. Independent research, and universities like it.

Equality Act in schools

Also called Disability discrimination, Equality Act 2010

The law that makes it unlawful for a school to discriminate against a disabled child. A separate route from SEND law, and often the stronger one.

Equality objectives and the PSED

The public sector equality duty: what schools must actively do, not just avoid.

Estimation

Rounding to easy numbers to check whether an answer is sensible.

Ethics

Frameworks for deciding what is right, and how they are applied to issues.

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