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 191–200 (page 20 of 50).

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Historical context

The surrounding circumstances that make an event make sense.

Historical interpretations: why they change

Why historians disagree, and why accounts of the same past keep changing.

Historical sources: cartoons and photographs

Reading images as evidence. Different skills from reading text.

Home to school transport

Also called School transport, Free school transport

Free travel to school for children who qualify. A statutory duty, and a frequent source of complaint.

Home tuition

Teaching arranged at home for a child who cannot attend school for health reasons.

Homeostasis

Keeping internal conditions steady. Temperature, blood glucose and water balance.

Homework

Work set to be done outside lessons. Not compulsory in law, and schools may sanction for it.

Homophones and common errors

The mistakes that cost accuracy marks most often, and how to stop making them.

Hormones

Chemical messengers in the blood. Slower than nerves, and longer lasting.

Hospitality and catering operations

How a food business runs: the front and back of house, the roles and the legal duties.

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