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 31–40 (page 4 of 50).

A

Attendance codes

Also called Register codes, Authorised absence, Unauthorised absence

The single letters in the register that decide whether an absence counts against you.

Attendance support and the school's duties

What a school must do to help before it enforces.

B

Behaviour policy

The rules a school sets and the sanctions it can apply. It must be published, and it binds the school too.

Bias and objectivity

A one-sided view, and why calling something biased is not analysis.

Bildungsroman and genre

The kind of text something is, and the expectations that come with it.

Binary and hexadecimal

Counting in twos and sixteens, and converting between them and decimal.

Blood Brothers

Willy Russell's musical play about twins separated at birth, one raised rich and one poor. Class as fate.

Bonding

Ionic, covalent and metallic — and why the type explains the properties.

Bounds and error intervals

The range a rounded measurement could actually be.

Break-even in business studies

The sales level where total revenue equals total costs. A calculation and a graph.

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