openness

en-noun

openness (usually uncountable, plural opennesses)

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From Middle English *opennesse, from Old English openness (“openness, publicity”), equivalent to open + -ness. Cognate with Old High German offannussi (“disclosure, revelation, openness”).

cog

(computing, education) degree of accessibility to view, use, and modify in a shared environment with legal rights generally held in common and preventing proprietary restrictions on the right of others to continue viewing, using, modifying and sharing.


bus stop

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(education) The tableau used in short division, taught as if it were a bus stop with the digits treated as people queueing.


bop

en-noun

bop (countable and uncountable, plural bops)

Theatres; Music House used for bands; May Ball; very popular weekly bops in JCR and MCR; library (57,000 books); 40 networked PCs, 24-hrs.

2005, Johnny Rich, Push Guide to Which University, page 472:

At universities like Oxford, middle-class students hold 'chav bops' where they dress up as this working-class caricature.

2012, Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, page 120:

(countable, Oxbridge slang) A party hosted by a college's JCR or MCR.


feeder

From Middle English feedere, federe, fedare, equivalent to feed + -er.


CIS

Clark International Speedway
w:Clark International Speedway

(Philippines, motor racing) Initialism of Clark International Speedway.


tutor

From Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur (French tuteur), from Latin tūtor (“a watcher, protector, guardian”), from tueor (“protect”); see tuition.

der

(UK) A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.


JCR

(education, UK) Initialism of junior common room (in British universities).


statementing

(British, education) formal official assessment of a child as having special needs.


streamer

From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream + -er.

Since he also demonstrated that the A-streamers in his sample showed enhancement of measured intelligence over their primary school careers while the B-streamers showed deterioration, it can be seen what a far-reaching effect such decisions may have had upon child performance.

1984, Anthony Gale, Antony J. Chapman, Psychology and Social Problems, page 82:

(UK, education, in combination) A pupil belonging to a particular stream (division by perceived ability).


ITA

Initial Teaching Alphabet
w:Initial Teaching Alphabet

(education) Initialism of Initial Teaching Alphabet.


vocational school

en-noun

vocational school (plural vocational schools)

職校 /职校

1. A school that provides training in specific skills required for different industries.


CSE

CSE (countable and uncountable, plural CSEs)

John left school with eight CSEs.

Certificate of Secondary Education
w:Certificate of Secondary Education

(UK, education, historical, countable) Initialism of Certificate of Secondary Education, a former examination in UK schools; a pass achieved in this examination.


differentiate

en-verb

differentiate (third-person singular simple present differentiates, present participle differentiating, simple past and past participle differentiated)

differentiates (present singular third-person)
differentiating (participle present)
differentiated (participle past)
differentiated (past)

equate

antonym(s) of “to show the distinction between things”

mix up

antonym(s) of “to perceive the difference between things”

From New Latin differentiātus, past participle of differentiō, from Latin differentia (“difference”); see difference.

Like most teaching, differentiating is a mix of art and science. When it works, "it's like a jazz rhythm," said Carol Tomlinson, an education professor at the University of Virginia and an expert on differentiation.

2012 May 16, Michael Alison Chandler, “Teaching for all levels — in one class”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2023-02-11:

Moreover, children of STIP-teachers who showed many types of differentiation activities learnt more than children of STIP-teachers who differentiated less.

2017 August, Tessa H.S. Eysink, Manon Hulsbeek, Hannie Gijlers, “Supporting primary school teachers in differentiating in the regular classroom”, in Teaching and Teacher Education, volume 66, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, page 107116:

I use technology to differentiate in my Algebra classroom in many different ways. Sometimes, I put this technology in the hands of students and sometimes I use it myself to streamline a process.

2018 June 22, Larry Ferlazzo, quoting Sarah Shartzer, “Response: Ways to Use Tech to Differentiate Instruction”, in Education Week, archived from the original on 2022-05-19:

(education) To teach a lesson in multiple different ways in order to meet the needs of more or less advanced students.

differenciál

education: to teach a lesson in multiple different ways in order to meet the needs of more or less advanced students


schooling

en-noun

schooling (countable and uncountable, plural schoolings)

I never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.

2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:

Institutional education; attendance of school.


stipend

The noun is derived from Late Middle English stipend, stipende (“salary, wage”) [and other forms], from Old French stipende, stipendie, from Latin stīpendium (“contribution; dues; impost, tax; tribute; military pay or stipend; military service”), from *stipipendium, *stippendium, from stips (“alms; contribution, donation, gift”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steyp- (“erect; stiff”)) + pendere (the present active infinitive of pendō (“to cause to hang down or suspend; to weigh, weigh out; (hence) to pay”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin; to stretch”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* Italian stipendio
* Portuguese estipendio
* Spanish estipendio

der

(education) A scholarship granted to a student. [from 20th c.]

bourse

scholarship granted to a student — see also scholarship


sophomore

From earlier sophumer, from the obsolete sophom, sophum (“sophism or dialectical exercise”), from Ancient Greek σόφισμα (sóphisma). Likely influenced by Ancient Greek σοφός (sophós, “wise”) + μωρός (mōrós, “fool”). Compare oxymoron (literally “sharp-dull”), a similar contradiction.

Coordinate term: debut

The band’s sophomore album built upon the success of their debut release, catapulting them to megastardom.

“Blonde,” which is spelled “Blond” on the album cover and “Blonde” on Apple and elsewhere, hews more closely to what was expected from a sophomore release by one of the most lauded and enigmatic young singers in pop music.

2016 August 21, Joe Coscarelli, “Frank Ocean Finally Delivers His Album, and a Pop-Up Surprise”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Spike Lee’s sophomore film, after his micro-budgeted and critically acclaimed debut, “She’s Gotta Have It,” was this big, bold ensemble musical set on the campus of a Historically Black College over a busy homecoming weekend.

2021 March 5, Jason Bailey, “Watch These 13 Titles on Netflix Before They Leave This Month”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(US) The second in a series, especially, the second of an artist’s albums or the second of four years in a high school (tenth grade) or university.


sophomore

She was very mature for a sophomore and had several friends who were juniors or even seniors.

(US, Philippines) A second-year undergraduate student in a college or university, or a second-year student in a four-year secondary school or high school.


grouchy

en-adj

grouchy (comparative grouchier, superlative grouchiest)

grouchier (comparative)
grouchiest (superlative)

US 1895. From grouch + -y. Originally US college student slang.

His boss gets grouchy when deadlines draw near.

Not that young Pat had a nasty temper, or was grouchy as his father had feared.

1911, Jack London, chapter III, in The Abysmal Brute:

He went in to mumble that he was "sorry, didn't mean to be grouchy," and to inquire as to her interest in movies.

1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXXI, in Babbitt:

In Berlin I once heard Susie Clemens—ill-fated, talented girl, who died so young—say to her father: "Grouchy again! They do say that you can be funny when company is around—too bad that you don't consider Henry Fisher company."

1922, Henry William Fischer, “Author's Preface”, in Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field:

(originally university slang) Irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain.

knorrig

irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain


OSS

en-noun

OSS (countable and uncountable, plural OSSes or OSS's or OSSs)

OSSes (plural)
OSS's (plural)
OSSs (plural)

out-of-school suspension
out-of-school suspension#English

(education) Initialism of out-of-school suspension.


Winchester

From Middle English Wynchester, Winchestre, from Old English Wintanċeaster, from Latin Venta Belgārum (literally “Venta of the Belgae”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Celtic *wentā (“town, place”), Proto-Indo-European *h₁wen- (“place (?)”) + Old English ċeaster, from Latin castra (“camp”).
The bottle is named for the former customary units of the English city. The rifle is named named after American businessman Oliver Winchester (1810–1880). The computer disk is named for the rifle.

named-after

Any of the towns named after it, including:

A number of places in the United States:

A township in Norman County, Minnesota, named after Winchester, Iowa.


let in

en-verb

let in (third-person singular simple present lets in, present participle letting in, simple past and past participle let in)

lets in (present singular third-person)
letting in (participle present)
let in (participle past)
let in (past)

He has also been good enough to recommend to me many tradesmen who are ready to supply these articles in any quantities; each of whom has been here already a dozen times, cap in hand, and vowing that it is quite immaterial when I pay—which is very kind of them; but, with the highest respect for friend Perkins (my scout) and his obliging friends, I shall make some enquiries before "letting in" with any of them.

1859, Thomas Hughes, chapter 1, in Tom Brown at Oxford:

(transitive, Oxford University slang) To associate with.


ephemera

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐφήμερᾰ (ephḗmeră), neuter plural form of ἐφήμερος (ephḗmeros).

Manmade objects that are short-lived (under usual conditions), usually because their design intent is to be inexpensively made and thus affordably bought, a goal that often is an engineering trade-off versus durability.

(library science) Published single-sheet or single page documents which are meant to be thrown away after one use.


seminary

From Latin sēminārium, from sēmen (“seed”). Compare seminar. In the ground sense, from Middle English semynair, semynary.

A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers.

Three little maids who, all unwary,
 Come from a ladies' seminary

1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC:

(Mormonism) A class of religious education for youths ages 14–18 that accompanies normal secular education.

I shall first begin with the Seminary and Nursery, as what is the first Work to be taken care of where you have not the opportunity of buying Trees

1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:

[B]ut if you draw them [seedlings] only for the thinning of your Seminary, prick them into ſome empty Beds at one foot interval, leaving the reſt at two or three.

1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], “. Chapter II. Of the Seminary.”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 7:

A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation.

Seeing then there is indeed a twofold Seminary or stock in nature, from whence are deriv’d the issues of love and hatred distinctly flowing through the whole masse of created things, and that Gods doing ever is to bring the due likenesses and harmonies of his workes together, except when out of two contraries met to their own destruction, he moulds a third existence, and that it is error, or some evil Angel which either blindly or maliciously hath drawn together in two persons ill imbarkt in wedlock the sleeping discords and enmities of nature lull’d on purpose with some false bait, that they may wake to agony and strife, later then prevention could have wisht, if from the bent of just and honest intentions beginning what was begun, and so continuing, all that is equall, all that is fair and possible hath been tri’d, and no accommodation likely to succeed, what folly is it still to stand combating and battering against invincible causes and effects, with evill upon evill, till either the best of our dayes be linger’d out, or ended with some speeding sorrow.

1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:

the Seminary or Promptuary that furnisheth forth Matter for the Formation and Increment of Animal and Vegetable Bodies

1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], →OCLC:

(by extension) The place or original stock from which anything is brought or produced.

I shall not need to instance in the effects which this bull produced; the treason of Watson and Cleark, two English seminaries, are sufficiently known

1638, Jeremy Taylor, Sermon on Gunpowder Treason:

A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist.


ICS

en-noun

ICS (countable and uncountable, plural ICSs)

1986, Judith S Shoemaker, Predicting Cumulative and Major GPA of UCI Engineering and Computer Science Majors, Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), 2,
Currently there are two oversubscribed majors at UCI: Engineering (ENG) and Information and Computer Science (ICS).

computer science
computer science#English

(business, education) Initialism of information and computer science or informatics and computer science, a combined discipline.


holy war

(Utah) The rivalry between the sports teams of Brigham Young University and the University of Utah.


sconcing

sconcing (countable and uncountable, plural sconcings)

(uncountable, Oxford University slang) The activity of sconcing in general, as part of a meal or drinking game; commonly associated with crewdates; very similar to fining at Cambridge University.


sconce

Unclear. Perhaps a use of sconce (“light fixture”) or sconce (“fortification”), but seemingly older than the latter

The table opposite started singing "shit sconce, shit scone^([sic]), shit sconce, shit sconce" […]

2014 February 25, James Burns, “Fishing for Sconces”, in funnywomen.com (blog), archived from the original on 2022-01-27:

(Oxford University slang) An act of sconcing; very similar to a fine at Cambridge University, though a sconce is the act of issuing a penalty rather than the penalty itself.


sconce

en-verb

sconce (third-person singular simple present sconces, present participle sconcing, simple past and past participle sconced)

sconces (present singular third-person)
sconcing (participle present)
sconced (participle past)
sconced (past)

I sconce anyone who has ever…

(Oxford University slang) During a meal or as part of a drinking game, to announce some (usually outrageous) deed such that anyone who has done it must drink; similar to I have never; commonly associated with crewdates; very similar to fining at Cambridge University.


enrichment

en-noun

enrichment (countable and uncountable, plural enrichments)

(education) Extracurricular activities for students.


Doxbridge

An annual five-day sports tournament held in March in Dublin involving colleges of the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of Durham and the University of York.


FCS

w:NCAA Division I#Football Championship Subdivision

(American football) Initialism of Football Championship Subdivision.


sixth form

sixth form (countable and uncountable, plural sixth forms)

Earlier educational naming conventions in public schools termed every two years of education "forms" (itself sometimes said to be from form (“bench”), where students of certain ages would sit together, though disputed, or alternatively from form (“established method of expression or practice”)), where Years 12 and 13 (i.e. ages 16 to 18) was the "sixth" and final form. State schools adopted the term "sixth form" and retained it when the rest of the form structure was dropped.

Nathaniel: Maister, there is nobody to teach in the sixth form.
Maister: What a thing is this?
N: He is sick in bed.
M: How do you know?
N: One of the scholars in his house told me so.

1653, Corderius, Colloquia scholastica Anglo-Latina, […] 1653, page 220:

(UK except Scotland, education) The final two years of secondary education, during which students of about 16 to 18 years of age prepare for their A-level examinations or equivalent qualifications.


textbook

(education) A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.


quadrivium

quadrivium (plural quadriviums or quadrivia)

From Medieval Latin quadrivium (“the four mathematical studies”), from Latin quattuor (“four”) + via (“road”).

lbor

Coordinate term: trivium

(education, historical) The higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music.


assignment

en-noun

assignment (countable and uncountable, plural assignments)

assignment (computer science)
homework assignment
sex assignment

From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement. By surface analysis, assign + -ment.

Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.

(education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.


grade school

In contrast to high schools, the subsequent secondary school type, classes of this kind of school do not have typical nicknames.
In a grade school all classes are simply enumerated 1st to 8th grade (called form or year in British English).
In a high school, on the other hand, school year groups are in everyday parlance referred to as freshman/sophomore/junior/senior year.

(US, Philippines, rarely Canada, education) Elementary school; primary school.


credentialism

Excessive emphasis on the importance of educational, academic, legal, or regulatory qualifications.

升學主義 /升学主义

emphasis on the importance of qualifications


clinical

(education) A medical student's session spent in a real-world nursing environment.


formative

en-adj

formative (comparative more formative, superlative most formative)

more formative (comparative)
most formative (superlative)

From Middle English formatyve, formatif (“having the ability to form”), from Old French formatif, formative (modern French formatif), from Medieval Latin formātīvus, from Latin fōrmātus + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘doing’ or ‘related to doing’). Fōrmātus is the perfect passive participle of fōrmō (“to form, to shape”), from fōrma (“a form, shape”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “a form, shape”) (see further at that entry). By surface analysis, form + -ative.

cog

(education) Of a form of assessment: used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes.

formatiivinen

of a form of assessment: used to guide learning rather than to quantify educational outcomes


BD

en-noun

BD (countable and uncountable, plural BDs)


CCA

CCA (countable and uncountable, plural CCAs)

(Singapore, education) Initialism of cocurricular activity.


academia

Borrowed from New Latin acadēmīa, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attica hero Akademos. Doublet of academy and Akademeia; see also academe. Modern sense of “the world of universities and scholarship” recorded from 1956.

Not every university graduate wishes to pursue academia.

Continuous study at higher education institutions; scholarship.


propaedeutic

en-adj

propaedeutic (comparative more propaedeutic, superlative most propaedeutic)

more propaedeutic (comparative)
most propaedeutic (superlative)

From the Ancient Greek προπαιδεύω (propaideúō, “I give preparatory instruction”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + παιδεύω (paideúō, “I teach”).

uder

On the other hand, the German university exhibits a system in which the university course is almost wholly special; the liberal and propædeutic studies are relegated to the grammar-school.

1868, Mark Pattison, Suggestions on Academical Organisation with Especial Reference to Oxford, section VI: “Of the Studies Preliminary to the Degree”, § 4: ‘Liberal Studies (Arts) and Special Studies (Science)’, pages 261–262

Students were not allowed to repeat the first propedeutic year more than once or to spend more than six years at universities; […]

2014, Philip Altbach, editor, International Higher Education, volume 2, Routledge, →ISBN, page 624:

(formal, of education) Preparatory or introductory.


propaedeutic

This chapter aims to be a propedeutic because there are many specific lines of argument that could, and should, be developed from the observation of the unique values-based and globalized-movement nature of co-operatives […]

2009, J. J. McMurtry, Darryl Reed, editors, Co-operatives in a Global Economy, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:

propedeutika

course or instruction providing preparatory or introductory teaching


CTC

City Technology College
city technology college#English

(British, education) Initialism of City Technology College.


pass out

en-verb

pass out (third-person singular simple present passes out, present participle passing out, simple past and past participle passed out)

passes out (present singular third-person)
passing out (participle present)
passed out (participle past)
passed out (past)

He passed out of the Madras University in 1990.


Rutgers

Dutch patronymic surname from the given name Rutger, the same as Roger and Rodgarus.


truant

The adjective and noun are derived from Middle English truant, truand, truaund (“(adjective) idle; tending to vagrancy (uncertain; may be a use of the noun); (noun) beggar; mendicant friar; vagrant, wanderer; worthless person, rogue, scoundrel; one who is absent without leave, truant; one who shirks duties”), from Old French truant, truand (“(adjective) beggarly; roguish; (noun) a beggar, vagabond; a rogue”) (modern French truand), probably of Celtic origin, possibly from Gaulish *trugan, or from Breton truan (“wretched”), from Proto-Celtic *térh₁-tro-m, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to drill, pierce; to rub; to turn”).
Cognates
* Breton truc (“beggar”)
* Irish trogán, trogha (“destitute”)
* Middle Dutch trawant, trouwant, truwant
* Occitan truan
* Portuguese truão
* Scottish Gaelic trudanach (“vagabond”), truaghan (“wretched”)
* Spanish truhan
* Welsh tru, truan (“wretched”)

der

He didn’t graduate because he was chronically truant and didn’t have enough attendances to meet the requirement.

[…] I fell desperately in love with a little daughter of the squire's about twelve years of age. This freak of fancy made me more truant from my studies than ever.

1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Buckthorne, or The Young Man of Great Expectations”, in Tales of a Traveller, part 1 (Strange Stories. […]), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC, pages 73–74:

(specifically) Of a student: absent from school without permission.

مُتَغَيِّب

of a student: absent from school without permission


truant

[S]ince I pluckt Geeſe, plaide Trevvant, and vvhipt Top, I knevv not vvhat 'tvvas to be beaten, till lately.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 58, column 1:

[…] I knovve you are no truant, / But vvhat is your affaire in Elſonoure?

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], signature C, verso:

The village maſter taught his little ſchool; / A man ſevere he vvas, and ſtern to vievv, / I knevv him vvell, and every truant knevv; […]

1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W[illiam] Griffin, […], →OCLC, page 11:

(specifically) A student who is absent from school without permission; hence (figurative), a person who shirks or wanders from business or duty.

stokkiesdraaier

student who is absent from school without permission; person who shirks or wanders from business or duty


truant

en-verb

truant (third-person singular simple present truants, present participle truanting, simple past and past participle truanted)

truants (present singular third-person)
truanting (participle present)
truanted (participle past)
truanted (past)

Inherited from Middle English truaunten (“to obtain alms fraudulently; to behave like a rogue or scoundrel; to neglect a duty; to be idle or lazy”), and then partly:
* from Old French truander (modern French truander (“to cheat, to con”)), from truand (noun) (see etymology 1) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs); and
* from Middle English truaunt (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming infinitives of verbs).

inh+

The number of schoolchildren known to have truanted from this school has been unusually high.

VVhat made the Gods ſo often to trevvant from Heauen & mych [much] héere on earth, but beautie?

1580, Iohn Lyly [i.e., John Lyly], Euphues and His England. […], London: […] [Thomas East] for Gabriell Cawood, […], →OCLC, folio 29, recto:

VVhat ſimple thiefe brags of his ovvne attaine? / 'Tis double vvrong, to truant vvith your bed, / And let her read it in thy lookes at boord: […]

c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 91, column 1:

What mindless thief brags of his own crime? / 'Tis doubly wrong to wander from your bed [i.e., be unfaithful to one’s wife], / And let her read it in your looks at the table: […]

By this means they loſt their time, and truanted on the fundamental grounds of ſaving knovvledg, […]

1641 June or July, John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and Whether It may be Deduc’d from the Apostolical Times by Virtue of Those Testimonies which are Alledg’d to that Purpose in Some Late Treatises; […]; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 243:

If in a dark buſineſſe vve perceive God to guide us by the lantern of his providence, it is good to follovv the light cloſe, leſt vve loſe it by our lagging behind. He [Eliezer] vvill not truant it novv in the afternoon, but vvith convenient ſpeed returns to Abraham, vvho onely vvas vvorthy of ſuch a Servant, vvho onely vvas vvorthy of ſuch a Maſter.

1642, Thomas Fuller, “The Life of Eliezer”, in The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC, book I, page 24:

Thou Truantest much, and art very idle, which are moſt pernicious things.

1690, J[ohn] Garretson, “Exercises Fitted to Lilly’s Concords, and Rules, together with Observations upon Them”, in English Exercises for School-boys to Translate into Latin. […], 3rd edition, London: […] Tho[mas] Cockerill, […], →OCLC, page 30:

Her good angel is gone a journey: Is truanting at leaſt.

1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LI. Mr. Lovelace, to John Belford, Esq.”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume IV, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 305:

(intransitive) Also used with the impersonal pronoun it (dated): to shirk or wander from business or duty; (specifically) of a student: to be absent from school without permission; to play truant.


call number

(library science) An identification number, usually consisting of a combination of numbers and characters, used to identify and locate materials within a library; the shelfmark that conveys it.

signatura topogràfica

identification number for materials within a library


top-up

en-noun

top-up (countable and uncountable, plural top-ups)

(education) The situation where a student who holds a qualification equivalent to part of a degree course is then accepted onto a degree course at an intermediate point, without having to start it from the beginning.


capitation

capitation (countable and uncountable, plural capitations)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-capitation.wav

Learned borrowing from Latin capitātiōnem, from caput (“head”).

lbor

(India, euphemistic) A donation made to an educational institution to obtain admission.


Sunday school

en-noun

Sunday school (countable and uncountable, plural Sunday schools)

It [Troutbeck] has religious isolation also, for it is several miles—and very strenuous miles in winter—from the parish church at Mungrisdale, and the introduction of the harmonium to the waiting room was due to the zeal of a vicar of many years ago who, in the absence of any other room in the village, obtained permission to use the premises for services, including Sunday School. Most of his successors have continued this self-sacrificing duty.

1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:

Also mentioned is the Rev. T. Stock, who has a tablet in St John's church [Gloucester] and "who with Raikes established the four original Sunday schools in this parish ... in 1780. From this small beginning sprung that gratuitous system of Christian instruction which has covered the face of England and Wales with schools."

2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56:

A school, organized by a church, that provides religious education to children on Sundays.

主日學 /主日学

religious school providing education on Sundays


AS-level

(UK, except for Scotland) Short for Advanced Subsidiary level, an exam sometimes taken in the first year of sixth form, as a first stage in completing an A-level qualification.


high school

high school (countable and uncountable, plural high schools)

Inherited from Middle English hyȝ scole (“school for higher education”), equivalent to high + school. Cognate with Dutch hogeschool (“academy, university, graduate school”), German Hochschule (“academy, college, university”).

cog

(education) An institution which provides all or part of secondary education.


fellowship

en-noun

fellowship (countable and uncountable, plural fellowships)

From Middle English felowschipe, felawshipe, felaȝschyp, equivalent to fellow + -ship; or perhaps adapted from Old Norse félagskapr, félagsskapr (“fellowship”). Compare Icelandic félagsskapur (“companionship, company, community”), Danish fællesskab (“fellowship”), Norwegian fellesskap (“fellowship”).

cog

Coordinate term: traineeship

There is a significant investment in scholarships and fellowships and traineeships, so that we are also making sure that we’re investing in domestic work force.

2021 May 18, Catie Edmondson, quoting Debbie Altenburg, “Senate Weighs Investing $120 Billion in Science to Counter China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

It will go toward 20 full-tuition fellowships for students of color, as well as to endow the initiative in perpetuity, provide relief for the existing scholarship fund and bring in artists of color as visiting faculty over the next five years.

2021 May 20, Hilarie M. Sheets, “A Utopian Art School in Michigan Looks Back and Ahead”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(education) A temporary position at an academic institution with limited teaching duties and ample time for research.


prep school

(British) A private primary school which prepares its pupils for the common entrance examination most commonly at the age of thirteen, and subsequent entry into public school.

privata lernejo

UK: private school that prepares for common entrance examination


invigilate

en-verb

invigilate (third-person singular simple present invigilates, present participle invigilating, simple past and past participle invigilated)

invigilates (present singular third-person)
invigilating (participle present)
invigilated (participle past)
invigilated (past)

Borrowed from Latin invigilātus, past participle of invigilō (“to stay awake, watch over”).

Professor Burns will be invigilating over the final examinations to ensure that the students do not cheat.

(UK, Canada, transitive, intransitive) To oversee a test or exam.


two-way

From two + way. Compare Old English twiweġ (“intersection, junction of two roads”).

cog

There are increasing examples of Indigenous-led research, and "two-way" collaborative research between scientists and Indigenous land custodians.

2023 August 11, Sarah Legge, Libby Rumpff, Stephen T. Garnett, John C.Z. Woinarski, “Loss of terrestrial biodiversity in Australia: Magnitude, causation, and response”, in Science, volume 381, →DOI, page 8, column 3:

(education) Utilising both Western and Indigenous knowledge systems; bothways.


Stanford

Various place names from Old English stān (“stone”) + ford (“ford”).
The university is named after the son of railroad magnate Leland Stanford.

Stanford (disambiguation)
Stanford University

A private university in Santa Clara County, California.

census-designated place
census-designated place

Santa Clara County
Santa Clara County#English

A number of places in the United States:

A census-designated place in Santa Clara County, California, the location of the eponymous university.


UCI

“I'm going to keep him under sedation until tomorrow morning, and then 5150 him at UCI Medical Center Psychiatric Unit.”

2006, J. T. McCalla, Reversal of Fear, page 187:

University of California, Irvine
w:University of California, Irvine

Initialism of University of California, Irvine.


NEA

(education) Initialism of non-examination assessment.


yeshiva

From Yiddish ישיבה (yeshive), from Hebrew יְשִׁיבָה (y'shivá, “meeting”).

Nonetheless, in 1976, after graduating with a B.A. in religious studies, he entered Yale's doctoral program in the same department. A year later, he left Yale to study Talmud in a Manhattan yeshiva.

1995 May 21, Steven Levy, “The Unabomber and David Gelernter”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Shalom grew up in an Orthodox family in Stamford Hill. His father, who ran an office-furniture business, intended him for a synagogue cantor, and when Shalom finished school he was sent to the yeshiva.

2015, Will Self, ‘Diary’, London Review of Books, vol. 37 no.5

Last month, the Forward reported, a former student at Mechon Hadar—a co-ed egalitarian yeshiva in New York—emailed the school's listserv with a plea for the institution to cut ties with [Leslie] Wexner in light of the unspooling allegations against [Jeffrey] Epstein.

2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents:

(education, Judaism) An academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts.


classroom

Secondly, preserved railways are not 24/7 operations. There are closed seasons where they can be turned into open-air classrooms.

2024 April 3, Richard Foster, “Training the next generation of engineers”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 48:

A room, often in a school, where classes take place.


platoon

From obsolete French plauton, variant of peloton, from Middle French pelote + -on. Doublet of peloton. Compare pellet.

(education, historical) A group of children in the platoon grouping education system.


preschool

Of or relating to the years of early childhood before attendance at primary school.


preschool

What could you do with the transumer trend in your agency? What about a coffee cart where parents pick up their children from preschool or classes?

2015, Timothy S O'Connell, Brent Cuthbertson, Terilyn J. Goins, Leadership in Recreation and Leisure Services, →ISBN:

In a study published in late July in the Journal of Sleep Research, researchers looked at how 1,619 children in China were doing in terms of sleep. The children, ages 4, 5 and 6, were recruited from 11 preschools in the province of Guizhou, in the city of Zunyi, about 650 miles from Wuhan.

2020 August 17, Perri Klass, “How Children’s Sleep Habits Have Changed in the Pandemic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-17, The Checkup:

(Philippines) A school including nursery and kindergarten. It is succeeded by elementary school.


preschool

en-verb

preschool (third-person singular simple present preschools, present participle preschooling, simple past and past participle preschooled)

preschools (present singular third-person)
preschooling (participle present)
preschooled (participle past)
preschooled (past)

(transitive) To provide nursery school education for.

(intransitive) To undergo nursery school education.


reliability

en-noun

reliability (usually uncountable, plural reliabilities)

(education) the ability to measure the same thing consistently (of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure is consistent); that is, repeated measurements would give the same result (See also validity).


repeater

(education) A student repeating a course or class.


rubric

From Middle English rubriche, rubrike, from Old French rubrique, from Latin rūbrīca (“red ochre”), the substance used to make red letters, from ruber (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-.

(education) A set of scoring criteria for evaluating student work and for giving feedback.


straight A

Should I try to be a straight A student? "If you are, then you think too much."

1980, “It's Still Rock & Roll to Me”, Billy Joel (music):

(education) Pertaining to one who makes straight As.


dropout

dropout (countable and uncountable, plural dropouts)

The politicians of the world are mere political university dropouts.

Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course


flunk out

en-verb

flunk out (third-person singular simple present flunks out, present participle flunking out, simple past and past participle flunked out)

flunks out (present singular third-person)
flunking out (participle present)
flunked out (participle past)
flunked out (past)

He flunked out of high school as a youth, but finished school later in life.

(idiomatic) To fail to finish school, or a given subject, program or course, due to academic shortcomings; i.e., to have too many flunking or failing grades (marks).

kibukik

to fail to finish school, or a given subject, program or course, due to academic shortcomings

They could simply have replied, "No, we're way too square. And until you do come up with an answer, stick to the syllabus so that we don't have to flunk out your mixed-up students when we get them next quarter."

1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, →ISBN:

(idiomatic) (of an educator or institution) To impose failing grades on (a student), often requiring a retaking of the course or academic year.


red brick university

en-noun

red brick university (plural red brick universities)

From the memoir Redbrick University by Edgar Allison Peers, whose titular university is based on the University of Liverpool. Liverpool, like most urban universities of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, extensively uses red clay bricks in its architecture.

It took a while before he told me his background: a happy childhood; two degrees—a bachelor's from a red brick university and an Oxbridge PhD; a relatively high-flying job in academia that he liked rather than loved.

2006 March 31, Adrian Turpin, “Not tonight darling, I'm online”, in Financial Times, retrieved 2006-03-31:

(British) Any traditional British university other than Oxford or Cambridge, especially one founded in the Victorian age in a large city.

Edgar Allison Peers
University of Liverpool
red brick university


supply teacher

(UK, Ireland) A teacher who fills a temporary position in a school on a short-term basis; often supplied by an agency.


secondary school

secondary school (countable and uncountable, plural secondary schools)

One of the key roles played by the Whitby line is the transport of children from rural spots along the branch to secondary school in the coastal town.

2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 77:

(education, UK, Ireland, Hong Kong) A state school attended between the ages of 11 and 16 or 18 between primary school and university.

(education, Canada, US) The federally designated, graduation-separated classification of grades 9–12 (approximately ages 14–18), regardless of whether they are compiled together in one school or separate from the other grades.

(education, Singapore) Middle school; junior high school; a school that one attends between the ages of 12-17 (equivalent of grades 7-10 in North America, and years 7-10 in Australia).


redbrick

red brick university
red brick university#English


schoolmaster

From Middle English skolemayster, scolemaister, scol-meister, equivalent to school + master.

A male teacher in charge of a school, usually a small one.

johtajaopettaja

male teacher in charge of a small school


schoolmaster

en-verb

schoolmaster (third-person singular simple present schoolmasters, present participle schoolmastering, simple past and past participle schoolmastered)

schoolmasters (present singular third-person)
schoolmastering (participle present)
schoolmastered (participle past)
schoolmastered (past)

To teach in the capacity of schoolmaster.


schoolmastering

A spell of schoolmastering there did not endear him to the life of a pedagogue […].

2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan, page 189:

The fact or activity of being a schoolmaster; teaching.


redshirt

/ˈɹɛd.ʃəː(ɹ)t/

Redshirt (college sports)
Star Trek: The Original Series
Starfleet
redshirt (stock character)

Calque of Italian camicia rossa, equivalent to red + shirt. In later senses with reference to the uniforms or outfits worn by such people. The fandom slang sense emerged from the tendency of red-uninformed Starfleet officers to die in episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series.

Loyal regiments from Naples and other provinces of the mainland fought valiantly and were victorious un several skirmishes against the redshirts near Capua.

2011, David Gilmour, The Pursuit of Italy, Penguin, published 2012, page 196:

(now historical) A supporter of the Italian nationalist leader Giuseppe Garibaldi, especially a member of his thousand-man army which conquered Sicily.

(US, sports) A college athlete who spends a year not participating in official athletic activities, but does not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.

(US, military) A person responsible for loading and unloading weapons, artillery, and equipment from aircraft.


redshirt

redshirt (third-person singular simple present redshirts, present participle redshirting, simple past and past participle redshirted)

redshirts (present singular third-person)
redshirting (participle present)
redshirted (participle past)
redshirted (past)

/ˈɹɛd.ʃəː(ɹ)t/

Being asked whether I was going to be redshirted had some status associated with it.

2004, George R. Mills -, A View from the Bench, →ISBN:

The university decided to redshirt the freshman linebacker to give him an extra year to build up his bulk.

(US, collegiate sports) To place an athlete in a status wherein the athlete will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities, but will not lose his or her eligibility to participate in following years.

Hillman, who had come to Indiana without a scholarship (he now had one) from a Los Angeles suburb, wanted to redshirt so that he would have two years of eligibility left after Alford graduated. Smith didn't want to redshirt, he wanted to play.

2012 -, John Feinstein, Season on the Brink, →ISBN, page 62:

(US, collegiate sports) To take on a status wherein one will spend a year not participating in official athletic activities.

1985, March 1, "Some Educators Oppose Redshirting 5-Year-Olds," The Omaha World-Herald
Parents who redshirt their 5-year-olds instead of enrolling them in kindergarten are a concern to some Nebraska educators who are trying to reverse the trend of holding children back until age 6 to start school.

(US) To hold a child out of kindergarten for one year in the hope that the child will do better academically and socially.


prepositor

Conjunction of pre- + posit and suffixed with ‐or, from Latin praepositus.

(education, chiefly historical) A scholar appointed to inspect other scholars; a monitor or prefect.


first grade

(US, education) The first or second year of grade school depending on classification, the period in school that comes after kindergarten and before second grade. Children usually begin first grade at age six.


school bus

en-noun

school bus (plural school buses or school busses)

school buses (plural)
school busses (plural)

A bus which carries children to or from school.


ELL

ELL (countable and uncountable, plural ELLs)

(education) Initialism of English-language learner.


four L

A law student in their fourth year of law school; generally an unusual situation occurring where a student has either taken an extended part-time curriculum, or has failed a class needed for graduation and must stay on for an extra semester after the three L year.


law school

GFU has a law school called Gender-Friendly University Law School.

1998, Shimon Shetreet, Women in Law, →ISBN, page 155:

If the college or university has a law school or a paralegal program, there usually will not be a law library committee because law and para-legal faculty take on that role through committee meetings and their daily interactions with the library's staff.

2012, Laurie Selwyn, Public Law Librarianship, →ISBN, page 57:

You will find reports of legal cases in law reports which are to be found in most university libraries (provided the relevant university has a law school).

2013, Susan Wolf, Neil Stanley, Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law, →ISBN, page 594:

An academic institution at which post-graduate students are prepared for the practice of law.


diploma mill

(education, derogatory) A disreputable university, churning out diplomas to unqualified students.

野雞大學 /野鸡大学

university churning out diplomas to unqualified students


streaming

streaming (usually uncountable, plural streamings)

→ French: streaming

→ German: Streaming

→ Japanese: ストリーミング (sutorīmingu)

→ Korean: 스트리밍 (seuteuriming)

→ Portuguese: streaming

→ Spanish: streaming

From Middle English stremynge, equivalent to stream + -ing.

Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.

2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:

(UK, education) Division of classes into academic streams.


halls

He was chatting to a couple of girls so I went over and introduced myself, said, "Hello, I er... I’m in the same halls as you." He just looked at me and said, "And?"

2004, K. Woodley, quoting an anonymous student, “Let the data sing: representing discourse in poetic form”, in Oral History, volumes 31-32, page 49:

'I had a massive argument with my parents about moving into halls and they even tried to bribe me a bit and said, "You know, if you don't go into halls we'll give you the money that you would have paid in halls as a gift."

2008, Anshuman Ahmed Mondal, Young British Muslim Voices, page 15:

Once B started University he did really well; the structured environment provided by his university suited him well and he loved it so much that by the end of the first term he decided he did want to live in halls after all.

2009, an anonymous Disability Advisor, quotee, Supporting people with autism through adulthood, National Audit Office, page 30:

'Yes. The first year he was in halls but was glad to leave for digs after that.'

2010, Julius Falconer, Tempt Not the Stars, page 127:


mindtool

VR technology was used as a delivery medium conveying a message rather than a mindtool with which the subjects enhance higher order thinking skills.

2001, Mahbub Syed, Wcs Icimade Conference Proceedings Distance Learning and Multimedia, page 97:

When used to scaffold information, mindtools reduce the cognitive load on learners and allow them to engage in critical thinking.

2009, Lawrence A. Tomei, Lexicon of Online and Distance Learning, page 151:

(education) A tool, such as a computer, that can be used to extend cognitive function.


Master of Arts

A postgraduate degree usually in a non-science subject.


cinquain

(education) A five-line poetic form set as a writing exercise for children, consisting of one noun, two adjectives, three actions, four feeling words, and the initial noun again.


peer review

peer review (countable and uncountable, plural peer reviews)

Peer review [...] happens in two ways. In one method, a paper submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal is examined by other scientists in the field before an editor (usually an expert in the field) passes judgment on it. The second method is review by an independent panel of experts who, using rigorous criteria, determine whether the findings of the paper are credible.

2006, National Institute for Literacy, What is Scientifically Based Research?, page 2:

It isn’t easy to know what to make of these studies. Many undergo peer review, but an experiment can be structured in a way that favours a particular outcome and still be valid science.

2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian:

(education) The scholarly process whereby manuscripts intended to be published in an academic journal are reviewed by independent researchers (referees) to evaluate the contribution, i.e. the importance, novelty and accuracy of the manuscript's contents.


class clown

He was always the class clown, constantly telling jokes and attracting everyone's attention in school.

(idiomatic) A student who frequently makes jokes or pokes fun; a wiseacre.


four square

(education) A method used to teach children to write about a topic, based on a diagram with four squares, each containing a type of sentence about the topic.


Carthusian

/kɑːˈθjuːzɪən/

From Medieval Latin Carthusianus, from Cart(h)usia, Latinization of Old French Chartrouse, a region near Grenoble where the order was founded, now Chartreuse; from Late Latin Catorissium, Cantourisa, Caturissium, Chatrousse, probably ultimately from Gaulish *Katurīx (literally “battle-king”). Also see Caturix, Helvetian war god.

der

A pupil of Charterhouse School (founded in a Carthusian monastery)


Magd

(Oxford University slang) Clipping of Magdalen, referring to Magdalen College, Oxford.

(Cambridge University slang) Clipping of Magdalene, referring to Magdalene College, Cambridge.


BU

Bournemouth University
w:Bournemouth University


imposition

en-noun

imposition (countable and uncountable, plural impositions)

From Middle English imposicioun, from Old French imposicion, from Latin impositio.

(UK, school or university slang) A task imposed on a student as punishment.


boarding school

boarding school (plural boarding schools)

A school which provides board and lodging as well as tuition, with students going home during the weekends or between terms.

internat

lodging of some of the pupils in a normal school


send down

en-verb

send down (third-person singular simple present sends down, present participle sending down, simple past and past participle sent down)

sends down (present singular third-person)
sending down (participle present)
sent down (participle past)
sent down (past)

He was sent down from Oxford for theft.

(transitive, UK, Ireland, usually Oxbridge slang, dated) To suspend or expel (an undergraduate) from university.


go up

go up (third-person singular simple present goes up, present participle going up, simple past went up, past participle gone up)

goes up (present singular third-person)
going up (participle present)
went up (past)
gone up (participle past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-go up.wav

(intransitive, British, dated) To attend university.


desmond

From Desmond (“given name”); abbreviation of Desmond Tutu (South African archbishop); from Tutu (“surname”) which sounds like 2.2 (two-two).

(British, rhyming slang, education) A lower second class honours or 2.2 degree.


new math

(US, education, historical) A dramatic and short-lived change in the teaching of mathematics in grade schools in the 1960s, focusing on abstract topics such as symbolic logic, to the detriment of simple arithmetic etc.


Harvard

A variant of Harward reflecting the merger of /v/ and /w/ in the dialects of southeastern England; thus from Middle English Herward, Herreward, itself from Old English Hereweard and a doublet of Harward and Hereward. Compare German Herwarth.

A university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, named after John Harvard, American clergyman and philanthropist.


duster

desc

→ Cebuano: daster (“type of loose dress worn at home”)

→ Indonesian: daster (“type of loose dress worn at home”)

→ Tagalog: daster (“type of loose dress worn at home”)

(education) A block of felt strips, shaped ergonomically, used to remove chalk from a blackboard.


Eton

en-proper noun

Eton (countable and uncountable, plural Etons)

From Old English Eatun, from ea (“river”) + tun (“town”). See also the doublet Eaton.

Windsor and Maidenhead
Windsor and Maidenhead#English

A town and civil parish in Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU965775).


Etonian

One who is enrolled in or has graduated from Eton College.


Ivy League

From earlier Ivy colleges (1933), as Ivy League first used by AP sports editor Alan J. Gould (1935). The title became official after the formation of the athletic conference in 1954. From the tradition of Ivy Day at many older colleges and universities, where ivy is planted to honor academic excellence.

Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale form the Ivy League.

Almost as an afterthought, we’re given an origin story for Barney’s alcoholism: he was once a sober, studious, Ivy League-bound high school scholar before Homer forced a beer on him that transformed him into a drooling, slurring, out of control rampaging id.

2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(US, education, politics) An association of eight universities in the USA, known for high quality.

Alan J. Gould
en:Ivy League
en:Ivy League (disambiguation)


R&R

(education) Initialism of revise and resubmit.


plunk

en-verb

plunk (third-person singular simple present plunks, present participle plunking, simple past and past participle plunked)

plunks (present singular third-person)
plunking (participle present)
plunked (participle past)
plunked (past)

(transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To be a truant from (school).


Dartmouth

English port: from Dart + mouth, since it lies at the mouth of the River Dart.


TAFE

en-noun

TAFE (countable and uncountable, plural TAFEs)

TAFE Colleges are organized in Australia on a State or Territory basis, and considerable variation is to be found in the way that TAFE Colleges are linked to the other educational sectors.

2003, Y. Y. Jessie Wong, R. Gerber, K. A. Toh, “Chapter XXI: A Comparative Study of Distributed Web-Based Education (WBE) in Singapore and Australia”, in Anil Aggarwal, editor, Web-Based Education: Learning from Experience, page 358:

Going to TAFE is a good option if you want to gain more technical skills or if you don′t get a placement at the university you wanted. TAFE is a great place to build up a portfolio of work in preparation for applying for university, especially in the case of some universities where a portfolio presented at interview determines whether an applicant is accepted.

2007, Michelle Hespe, Industrial Design, Career FAQs, page 129:

Financial security, coupled with a desire for an exciting or satisfying career is a partial explanation of why some inner east students had such positive attitudes to TAFE.

2010, Madaleine Mattarozzi Laming, “9: Stories of Difference: Metroploitan and Rural Students′ Attitudes to University”, in Joseph Zajda, editor, Globalisation, Ideology and Education Policy Reforms, Springer, page 147:

further education
further education#English

(Australia, uncountable) Initialism of technical and further education.


MPS

MPS (countable and uncountable, plural MPSs)

Master of Professional Studies
w:en:Master of Professional Studies

(education) Initialism of Master of Professional Studies.


plodge

The college system protects you, but it is very unfair to say that people at Oxbridge are not living in the real world. They do have some odd slang. ‘I'll p-hole you in the plodge’ meaning ‘I will leave a note for you in the porter’s lodge’ is just one example.

1991 January 14, Alice Thomson, “Knuckling down to the new realism”, in The Times, page 26:

(Oxbridge slang) Contraction of porter's lodge.


tracking

tracking (countable and uncountable, plural trackings)

(education) The division of pupils into separately taught groups by perceived ability level.


Cal

(informal) University of California, Berkeley


Hilary

From Latin Hilarius (“cheerful, happy”), name of a fourth-century saint and from its feminine form Hilaria.

It was the first day of term, and one of the rare days in Oxford when the weather was deceitfully marvellous; when its warmth promised more sunshine and joy than the relentless rain and sleet Hilary inevitably brought.

2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 447:

(UK, Ireland, law, education) Ellipsis of Hilary term.


sex education

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sex education.wav

Education about human sexual anatomy, reproduction, and intercourse and other human sexual behavior.


cold read

en-verb

cold read (third-person singular simple present cold reads, present participle cold reading, simple past and past participle cold read)

cold reads (present singular third-person)
cold reading (participle present)
cold read (participle past)
cold read (past)

At the audition you will be required to cold read a script.

(intransitive, transitive, acting, newsreading, education) To perform (a script) without preparation.


Pitt

en-proper noun

Pitt (countable and uncountable, plural Pitts)


mimetic

From Ancient Greek μῑμητικός (mīmētikós, “imitative”).

der

(education) A type of mnemonic in the form of a picture.


UCLA

Representatives from UCLA are Sunny Merrill and Ken Gallagher who will appear tonight on Peter Potter’s “College Corner” program, which will poll the most popular record according to West Coast collegiennes on KHJ from 10:30 to 11.

1947 December 3, Daily Bruin, volume XXXII, number 51, Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California at Los Angeles, page 1:

State begins fouling and UCLA misses a couple of front-end free throws on one-and-ones.

2009, Brandon Lang, Stanley Cohen, Beating the Odds: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Sports Handicapper, →ISBN:

Chris Tilly, a labor economist at UCLA, said the shortages among burger-flippers and cashiers is notable “because those low-end jobs more typically have a labor surplus.”

2021 September 7, Ben Finley, Tom Krisher, “Amid labor shortage, union workers feeling emboldened: Organized workers bargaining for higher pay, improved benefits”, in Sun Journal, Lewiston, Me., page B4, column 5:

Initialism of University of California, Los Angeles.


ASU

Arizona State University
w:Arizona State University


hall of residence

en-noun

hall of residence (plural halls of residence)

(UK) A building for college or university students to live in.

col·legi major

building for university students to live in


criticality

criticality (countable and uncountable, plural criticalities)

(education) A disposition for purposeful thinking and acting guided by criteria that are considered to be contextually appropriate and that are expected to result in positive outcomes related to the purpose.


e-learning

Learning conducted via electronic media, especially via the Internet.


schoolbook

You studied the wrong lesson. Why, there is gum all over your book. How did this happen? JD, I am a little surprised at the condition of your schoolbook. You will have to stay in during recess and 74 The Adventures of JD Losey.[…]

2005 May, Skeet Keaton, The Adventures of Jd Losey, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 74:

A textbook, a book used, or prepared for use, in school.


streamed

(UK, education) Divided into academic streams.


weeder

Weeders are often the first barrier to entry into certain professional careers for students. The most famous example is being “weeded-out” of the pre-med track.

2024 September 16, Opinion Department, “TIAS | It’s Time to Weed Out Weeder Courses”, in The Cornell Daily Sun:

(education) Ellipsis of weeder class / weeder course.


B.A.

In the 1918 list five B.A.’s were given post obitum, honoris causa and 35 were granted to men unable to be present because of absence in the Service.

Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts#English

Initialism of Bachelor of Arts (collegiate degree).

That's what college ought to be for, instead of for turning out a lot of B.A.s, so chock full of book-learning and vanity that there ain't room for anything else.

1909 September, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “A Wedding at the Stone House”, in Anne of Avonlea, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC, page 359:

On account of the shortness of the Lent Term, permission was granted in 1684 (Dec. 16), to make the work lighter by the passing of two graces, allowing inceptors in arts to make their disputations with an M.A. any day in term-time in the Logic, Philosophy, or Law schools, from 7 to 9, or 9 to 11 a. m., and 1 to 3, or 3 to 5 p. m., in the presence of the Proctor (or a regent his deputy) and at least six B.A.’s, and to hold disputations or declamations of inceptors and questionists, even out of term, at the Proctors’ pleasure, provided that the questions were duly posted on the doors and a Moderator present, as well as twelve Sophs at the Sophs’ disputations, and six B.A.’s at the Bachelors’ declamations.

1910, Christopher Wordsworth, Scholae Academicae: Some Account of the Studies at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge: At the University Press, pages 61–62:

I should be sorry for the B.A.’s, because I think they have as good stuff in them as the others, but their want of education has unfitted them for work requiring “auza.”

1913, H[arold] Fielding-Hall, The Passing of Empire, page 299:

B.A.’s should undergo 2 years’ course at college

Initialism of Bachelor of Arts (person with the degree).


polytechnic

First attested in 1805. From French polytechnique, from the École polytechnique, engineering school founded 1794 in Paris; from Greek πολύτεχνος "skilled in many arts," from πολύς "many" (see poly-) + τέχνη "art" (see technic).

(Singapore) A three-year post-secondary vocational training institute, equivalent of community college in the U.S. or TAFE in Australia.


the other place

(UK, Oxford University slang, derogatory) University of Cambridge

(UK, Cambridge University slang, derogatory) University of Oxford


SFA

Stephen F. Austin State University
w:Stephen F. Austin State University

Initialism of Stephen F. Austin State University.


remediate

en-adj

remediate (comparative more remediate, superlative most remediate)

more remediate (comparative)
most remediate (superlative)

(rare, archaic, education) Intended to correct or improve deficient skills in some subject.


Calhoun

Common anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Colquhoun.


looping

(education) The practice of having a teacher remain with the same group of students for more than one school year.


salutatorian

Coordinate term: valedictorian

At first, it seemed a joyous occasion. There was an audible gasp in the room, then boisterous cheering and applause when the announcement was made: Ikeria Washington and Layla Temple had been named 2021 valedictorian and salutatorian for West Point High School.

2021 June 11, Stephanie Saul, “Two Black Students Won School Honors. Then Came the Calls for a Recount.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

He was the salutatorian of his high school class (a sore subject, his sister said, since So thought he missed the top spot on a technicality), and entered Stanford intending to major in computer science.

2021 July 19, Andrew LaVallee, “A Rising Star’s Career Was Cut Short. His Impact Is Just Beginning.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(US, education) The person who graduates high school with the second-highest GPA and thus gets to give the salutatory address during the graduation ceremony.


GPA

grade point average
grade point average#English

(US, education) Initialism of grade point average.


grade point average

en-noun

grade point average (plural grade point averages)

(education) The overall average grade of all courses taken at a particular time.


vulgus

So the table was cleared, the cloth restored, and the three fell to work with Gradus and dictionary upon the morning's vulgus.

1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:

(UK, education, historical) A school exercise in which pupils are tasked with writing a short piece of Greek or Latin verse on a given subject.


hornbook

Yes, yes, he teaches boyes the Horne-Booke: […]

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 136:

HO′RNBOOK. n.ʃ. [horn and book] The firſt book of children, covered vvith horn to keep it unſoiled.

[1755 April 15, Samuel Johnson, “HO′RNBOOK”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–K), London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], →OCLC, column 1:

By way of the hornbook Shakespeare would have learned to read, […]

1913, Katharine Lee Bates, Lilla Weed, Shakespeare: Selective Bibliography and Biographical Notes, page 41:

Infants learned their letters from a hornbook, a square of wood shaped like a table-tennis bat on which were pasted the alphabet, syllables and the Lord's Prayer […]

1999, Nigel Wheale, Writing and Society: Literacy, Print, and Politics in Britain, 1590-1660, page 43:

The hornbook is the first piece of instructional material specifically mentioned in American records.

2002, Nila Banton Smith, American Reading Instruction, page 14:

Not only is it difficult to extract just the right doozy of an adjective out of the hornbook, but the maneuver can be performed at most twice in the course of an article or chapter.

2008, Ben Yagoda, When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It, Crown, →ISBN, page 30:

(historical) A single page containing the alphabet, covered with a sheet of transparent horn, formerly used for teaching children to read.

(law) A legal textbook that provides a basic overview of a particular area of law.


schoolbag

A satchel used to carry supplies for school; a bookbag.


sin bin

From sin + bin. Apparently Australian. Usage of the panel van sense is influenced by the US trade name.

(UK, education, colloquial) A referral unit or special class for frequent truants.


Letters and Science

(education) The humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, considered together.


seminarian

I realized this all too well when as a seminarian I got stuck with the job of recruiting the washees for a Maundy Thursday service. It's much easier to be the one down on the floor with the basin[…]

1995, Margaret Guenther, Toward Holy Ground, page 43:


Golgotha

* From the Ancient Greek Γολγοθᾶ (Golgothâ) from the Aramaic גּוּלְגּוּלְתָּא (gulgultā).
* (rooms of the heads of the colleges; a hat): Punning on "the place of the skulls/heads".

der

גּוּלְגּוּלְתָּא

Aramaic גּוּלְגּוּלְתָּא (gulgultā)

sense

But Printing is not the only, nor the principal uſe, for which theſe ſtupendous ſtone-walls were erected; for here is that famous apartment, by idle wits and buffoons nick-named Golgotha, i.e. the place of Sculls or Heads of colleges and halls, where they meet and debate upon all extraordinary affairs, which occur within the precincts of their juriſdiction.

1726, Nicholas Amhurst, Terræ-filius: or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford (No. XI), page 59

(Oxbridge slang, obsolete) The rooms of the heads of the colleges.


battledore

From Middle English batildore, batylledore, batildure, batyldoure, batyndore, probably as a blend of Middle English betel (“bat, club”) and Old Occitan batedor (“beater, bat”).

You will also pardon the errors of the Work, for you know I was not bred to letters; but, that the battledore, at an age not exceeding six, was the last book I used at school.

1802, William Hutton, The History of the Roman Wall, preface:

(obsolete) A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet.


UB

(Philippines)
Initialism of University of Baguio.

University of Baguio
w:University of Baguio

(Philippines)
Initialism of University of Batangas.

University of Batangas
w:University of Batangas


old boy

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(chiefly British) An alumnus, especially of a public school.


Princeton

Battle of Princeton
Thomas Prince
William Prince (politician)

From prince + -ton (“town”), originally in honor of crown princes or princes of the British Empire but later chiefly in honor of others with the name Prince or locations named Princeton. Doublet of Princetown. Cf. Princes Town, Princeville, Kingston, Kingstone, Coniston, Kingstown, Queenston, and Queenstown.
In particular, the British Columbian town is named for Edward VII, who was known as Albert, Prince of Wales, during the reign of his mother Queen Victoria. The New Jersey borough is named for William III—who became king of England through marriage to Mary II—in honor of his own separate Dutch title of Prince of Orange. The North Carolina town and Nebraska and Ontario communities are named for the New Jersey borough; the Missouri city is named for the Battle of Princeton which occurred there in the American Revolution; and the Illinois city and Florida CDP are named for the university named for its location in the borough. The given name derives from the prestigious university.
The Massachusetts town is named for clergyman Thomas Prince, and the Wisconsin city and town are named for the Massachusetts town. The Minnesota city is named for its founder John S. Prince, and the Idaho CDP is named after the Minnosota city. The Indiana city is named for politician William Prince, and the Kansas city is named for the Indiana city. The Texas city is named for landowner Prince Dowlin. The Kentucky city is named for landowner William Prince.

Miami-Dade County
Miami-Dade County#English

A number of places in the United States:

A census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida.


play truant

en-verb

play truant (third-person singular simple present plays truant, present participle playing truant, simple past and past participle played truant)

plays truant (present singular third-person)
playing truant (participle present)
played truant (participle past)
played truant (past)

[S]ince I pluckt Geeſe, plaide Trevvant, and vvhipt Top, I knevv not vvhat 'tvvas to be beaten, till lately.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 58, column 1:

(intransitive) To be absent from school without permission.


(Canada, US, Philippines, education) Kindergarten through 12th grade (US) / grade 12 (Canada and the Philippines).


middle school

en-noun

middle school (countable and uncountable, plural middle schools)

միջնակարգ դպրոց

school containing both primary and secondary students

(education, countable) A school which crosses the traditional divide between primary school and secondary school.

These authors argue that lists based on university-level reading material cannot be directly imported into contexts such as middle school since the lexical profiles of subjects and their vocabulary demands are different.

2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 107:

(education, uncountable) An educational level or stage between primary school and secondary school.


junior school

A school providing primary education to children.

(UK) A school providing education to children in Key Stage 2, i.e. for four academic years from September after a child's 7th birthday.

(Australia) Usually a part of a private school that educates children between the ages of 2 and 5.

(Canada, chiefly Ontario) A school teaching children from kindergarten to Grade 5; an elementary school.


exceptionality

exceptionality (countable and uncountable, plural exceptionalities)

1998, National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities, "Learning Disabilities: Preservice Preparation of General and Special Education Teachers," Learning Disability Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, p. 185,
Educators who are earning degrees as learning disability specialists should . . . understand the differences between learning disabilities and other exceptionalities.

(education) the condition of requiring special schooling for reasons of intellectual giftedness or physical or mental disability


scantron

Genericized trademark. By genericization of Scantron (from scan + -tron), a manufacturer and brand name of the devices.

The Grievant, however, insisted on using the scantron himself.

1989, Bureau of National Affairs, Labor Arbitration Reports, volume 91, page 897:

2008, Audrey Denise Bowser, Transforming Teacher Education to Support Multicultural Technology Pedagogy, PhD Dissertation, Iowa State University, page 66,
Additionally, a scantron bubble sheet and a statement of informed consent were given to students for review and a signature was required before the survey was administered.

Applicants must submit a completed application form together with the scantron sheet; cover sheet; student activity and community activity sheets; personal essay; and a copy of unofficial transcript (signed by the counselor).

2008, College Blue Book: Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants, and Loans, 36th edition, volume 5, page 277:

According to Jenny's story, everything each of us does, every decision made during each day, is indelibly marked on a lifetime scantron sheet in Heaven. (This, of course, made sense because it was very similar to the scantron sheets we filled out every day in school.)

2010, Bill Golembeski, The English Setter Dance, page 29:

(education, often attributive) A device used to scan prepared forms used for multiple-choice and true-or-false testing.

(education) A prepared form for use in such a device.


charter school

A school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located, and in some cases is privately owned.


madrasah

Borrowed from Arabic مَدْرَسَة f (madrasa, “school”), a noun of place from the verb دَرَسَ (darasa, “to learn, to study”).

(Islam) A school for any kind of teaching, at any grade level; usually specifically a school that teaches Islamic theology.


primary school

primary school (countable and uncountable, plural primary schools)

The child's mother was tearful as he boarded the bus for his first day of primary school.

My primary school is a good place to study.

(British, Australia, sometimes Philippines, education) A formal, obligatory kind of school that typically begins with nursery school or first grade and ends at fifth or sixth grade.


NQT

(education) Initialism of newly qualified teacher.


higher education

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Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.

2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

Education at a university level or beyond.


HNC

(British, education) Initialism of Higher National Certificate.


elementary school

elementary school (countable and uncountable, plural elementary schools)

On one offshore island Wuciou (also Wuqiu), the song of the only elementary school had these lyrics:
We are the little friends of the frontier, good students of Wuciou elementary school. We are not afraid of stormy winds and frightening waves; bravely and [with] perseverance, we advance forward. Our school is erected on the lonely island of the ocean. We will study hard, and are not afraid of gongfei on the opposite shore.

2015, Language, Politics and Identity in Taiwan: Naming China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 32:

(Canada, US, historically UK) A school for children, typically older than toddlers and younger than adolescents. In the U.S., elementary schools cover grades 1 through 5, and the ages of the children are usually 6-11 years. At a minimum, elementary schools will teach basic reading, writing, arithmetic, and history.


alma mater

alma mater (plural almae matres or alma maters)

almae matres (plural)
alma maters (plural)

/ˌælmə ˈmɑːtə(ɹ)/

/ˌɑːlmə ˈmɑːtə(ɹ)/

From Latin alma māter (literally “nourishing mother”). Derives from the full name ("Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna") of the oldest European university, the University of Bologna, founded in 1088.

der

I’m in the place where I grew up, where my alma mater is.

2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Evesham (1870)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 58:

A school, college, or university which a person has graduated from or attended.


fagging

en-noun

fagging (countable and uncountable, plural faggings)

We are happy we never had anything to do with faggings and floggings. We can well remember the terrific impression they made on our mind, as our friends were afflicted by them.

1841, The English Journal, volume 1, page 222:

The public schoolboy is taught to bear whippings and faggings without murmuring.

1922, Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt, Record of Christian Work, volume 41, page 343:

(UK, historical, education) The system in boarding schools whereby younger students acted as servants for older students.


UMOC

(US university and university slang) Initialism of ugly man on campus.


vestibular

Students usually complete high school when they are seventeen years old. If they want to go to college or university, they must pass a difficult test called the vestibular, which takes two or three days to write.

2002, Malika Hollander, Brazil: The People, page 23:

(education) A competitive examination used by Brazilian universities to select students.


A+

An academic grade issued by certain educational institutions. Slightly better than an A.


B+

An academic grade awarded by some institutions. Slightly better than a B and slightly worse than an A−.


B−

An academic grade awarded by some institutions. Slightly better than a C+, slightly worse than a B.


C+

An academic grade issued by certain institutions. Slightly better than a C and slightly worse than a B−.


D+

D+ was my final grade in honors algebra 2, so I passed.

An academic grade given by certain institutions. Slightly better than a D and slightly worse than a C-.


C−

An academic grade given by certain institutions. Slightly better than a D+ and slightly worse than a C.


D−

An academic grade given by certain institutions. Slightly better than an F+ and slightly worse than a D. D minuses are the lowest passing grades.


F+

An academic grade given by certain institutions. Slightly better than an F and slightly worse than a D−.


F minus

A conservative watchdog group concerned about the integrity of the electoral process, the Free Congress Foundation, later did an audit of new voting systems around the country and deemed Georgia's to be the worst, giving it an F-minus grade.

2005, Andrew Gumbel, Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America, page 264:

[…] he tried to cheer her up by painting a portrait of himself as the ultimate fuck-up: "It was super hard for me in high school. I got an F minus on a geometry test.

2005, Lawrence Sutin, Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick, page 46:

What you've got now is a company that went from an A- plus to an F-minus. And now it's going back to a B.

2003, Matt Haig, Brand Failures: The Truth About the 100 Biggest Branding Mistakes of All Time, page 211:

Is that an A plus for New York, or is that an F minus?

1990, Dean M. Sagar, Franchising in the U.S. Economy: Prospects and Problems, page 27:

It seems to me that this administration ought to be given an F, if we are talking about grades here, on its war on drugs, an F, in fact, an F minus.

1988, National Capital Area--drug Trafficking: Joint Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs and Health, page 69:

A (generally hypothetical) grade lower than an "F"; a grade representing not merely a failure, but a complete and utter failure.


sexile

en-verb

sexile (third-person singular simple present sexiles, present participle sexiling, simple past and past participle sexiled)

sexiles (present singular third-person)
sexiling (participle present)
sexiled (participle past)
sexiled (past)

As a happening dude or lady with a happening roommate, you should be prepared to get "sexiled" from your bedroom while someone gets intimate.

2000, Harvard Lampoon, The Harvard Lampoon's guide to college admissions: the comprehensive, authoritative, and utterly useless source for where to go and how to get in, Warner Books, page 123

We promised to never "sexile" each other (kick your roommate out of the room for the purposes of hooking up).

a'''2004, unnamed college student, Heather Alexander, quoted in Sharing Spaces: Tips and Strategies on Being a Good College Roommate, Surviving a Bad One, and Dealing with Everything in Between, Simon and Schuster (2004), page 137

Charlotte arrives intent on doing just that, and at first asserts her lil' backwoods self against the bitchy Groton roommate who "sexiles" her from their dorm room the night before an exam.

2004 November 28, Jacob Weisberg, “'I Am Charlotte Simmons': Peeping Tom”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

I guess I was being sexiled all three times and didn't realize it.

2006, Teresa Botial Richardson, Am I Black Or Right, AuthorHouse, page 11

(US university slang) To banish somebody, usually one's roommate, from the room for the privacy to have sex.


DIU

Dhaka International University
w:Dhaka International University

Initialism of Dhaka International University (a university in Dhaka, Bangladesh).

Daffodil International University
w:Daffodil International University

Initialism of Daffodil International University (a university in Dhaka, Bangladesh).


Seven Sisters

(education) A group of seven liberal arts colleges in the northeastern United States.


master class

The vocal pedagogue loves the Master Class idea. Such classes are usually conducted by the more plutocratic teachers for periods of from two to six weeks. Many of them vaguely promise to deliver a complete technique within that time.

1929, Tillman Breiseth, “Arias for Angels”, in North American Review, page 95:

(education) A class, typically in a performing art such as music or drama, in which a teacher listens to and critiques the performance of individual students, one at a time, while the other students look on.

վարպետության դաս

class in which a teacher critiques students


percipient

en-adj

percipient (comparative more percipient, superlative most percipient)

more percipient (comparative)
most percipient (superlative)

From Latin percipiēns, present participle of percipiō (“to perceive”).

(psychology, education, dated) Perceiving events only in the moment, without reflection, as a very young child.


essentialism

en-noun

essentialism (countable and uncountable, plural essentialisms)

If a curriculum is dedicated to getting back to the basics, then we can be sure that the guiding philosophy is that of essentialism.

2004, Arthur K. Ellis, Exemplars of Curriculum Theory, →ISBN, page 109:

Arguments of “back to basics” are usually associated with essentialism, and many contemporary educational theorists still suggest that the “nonessentials” should be taken out of the school curriculum.

2011, Thomas E. Smith, Clifford E. Knapp, Sourcebook of Experiential Education, →ISBN:

(education) The doctrine that there are certain traditional concepts, values, and skills that are essential to society and should be taught to all students.


A*

An academic grade, higher than A or A+. Where it is used, it is often the best class of result.


chunking

chunking (countable and uncountable, plural chunkings)

(mathematics, education) The partial-quotients method for solving simple division problems by repeated subtraction.


MR

mentally retarded
mentally retarded#English

(education, special education) Initialism of mentally retarded.


precalculus

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2016, Pam Goodner (lead writer/editor), Eureka Math Precalculus Study Guide, Wiley (Jossey-Bass), page ix,
As we wrote the Precalculus course, we wanted to create interest for older high school students by presenting topics in a context, something that students could relate to so that they could see the value in their work.

2017, Sheldon Axler, Precalculus: A Prelude to Calculus, Wiley, 3rd Edition, page xviii,
Similarly, many precalculus textbooks consider, for example, a colony of bacteria doubling in size every 3 hours, with the textbook then producing the formula e/3) for the growth factor after t hours.

2023, Mehdi Rahmani-Andebili, Precalculus, Springer, page v,
Moreover, in many universities and colleges, a precalculus course is mandatory for under-prepared students as the prerequisite course of Calculus 1.

(education, mathematics) A course, or set of courses, that includes (specifically) trigonometry and algebra at an appropriate level to prepare students to study calculus.


prealgebra

prealgebra (countable and uncountable, plural prealgebras)

2000, Alfred S. Posamentier, Making Pre-Algebra Come Alive, Sage Publications (Corwin Press), page 1,
In most secondary school curricula, pre-algebra is the last course in which specific attention is paid to multiplication, division, squares, cubes, and primes. Thereafter, these skills and operations are pretty much taken for granted.

Almost everyone pursuing a career or a course of study needs to know pre-algebra math. Also, almost all college entrance tests and professional exams require knowledge of at least pre-algebra math. The practicing of almost all crafts involves the use of pre-algebra math.

2002, Sally H. Spetz et al., REA's Practical Help for Pre-algebra, Research & Education Association, page 1:

Pre-algebra is considered to be something of a terminal arithmetic course. What this means for the student is that pre-algebra is a course that links many topics together before the student proceeds to more abstract mathematics courses.

2011, Hal Torrance, Math Tutor: Pre-Algebra Skills, Mark Twain Media, page 1:

(US, education, uncountable) A school (in the US, middle school) course that introduces students to concepts needed to learn algebra.


subdiscipline

Social psychology is a subdiscipline of psychology.

Phonology is a subdiscipline of linguistics.

A field of study or work that is related to one aspect, but not the whole, of a broader field of study or work.


postsecondary

In its revised budget, the government has increased funding for postsecondary education.

(education, US and Canada) Of or pertaining to education or educational institutions subsequent to secondary school or high school.


postsecondary school

postsecondary school (plural postsecondary schools)

McGill University is a well-known Canadian postsecondary school.

(education, US and Canada) An educational institution (usually a college or university) which is attended after graduation from secondary school or high school.


IELTS

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Initialism of International English Language Testing System.


cume

The pucks don’t bounce, the trains don’t spring, my cume is gonna fall,
And unless I pass that final quiz I’ll be screwed right to the wall.

1965, Matt Fichtenbaum, Dan Murphy, “The Institute Screw”, in The Broadside of Boston, volume III, number 22:

(education) Cumulative grade point average.


slogger

Coordinate term: torpid

(UK, Cambridge University slang) An inferior racing boat.


reclassify

en-verb

reclassify (third-person singular simple present reclassifies, present participle reclassifying, simple past and past participle reclassified)

reclassifies (present singular third-person)
reclassifying (participle present)
reclassified (participle past)
reclassified (past)

(transitive, education) To change the graduation year of (a student) by reclassification.


homeschooling

Teaching children at home instead of sending them to school.


zen

From Zen. In more general use, popularized by Eugen Herrigel's 1948 Zen in the Art of Archery and Robert M. Pirsig's 1974 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

the zen of cooking

the zen of passing the bar exam

the zen of C++

An approach to instruction, understanding, or an activity similarly emphasizing simplicity and intuition rather than conventional thinking or fixation on goals.

tao

a simple & intuitive method reflecting supposed Eastern wisdom


community college

en-noun

community college (plural community colleges)

The name derives from the fact that community colleges primarily attract and accept students from the local community, and are often supported by the local community through property taxes.

(British) A secondary school, usually offering extended services of some sort.


junior college

junior college (countable and uncountable, plural junior colleges)

(education) An institution of higher education that awards an associate's degree but not a bachelor's degree or higher.

初級學院 /初级学院

institution of higher learning that awards the associate's degree but not bachelor's degree or higher


associate's degree

associate's degree (plural associate's degrees)

An academic degree awarded after the equivalent of approximately two years of college education, usually by a community college.

副學士 /副学士

degree awarded after 2 years of college education


Bachelor of Laws

Bachelor of Laws (plural Bachelors of Laws)

(law) An undergraduate degree in the study of law.


nursery school

nursery school (countable and uncountable, plural nursery schools)

kindergarten

borrowed from German "Kindergarten"; mainly Canada, the U.S. and Australia

(Canada, British) An educational institution for small children (normally around 3 to 5 years old, who not yet have begun primary school).

çerdhe

a school for pre-school children — see also kindergarten


need-based

en-adj

need-based (comparative more need-based, superlative most need-based)

more need-based (comparative)
most need-based (superlative)

Coordinate term: merit-based

(education) Derived from need rather than earned by merit, regarding financial or other assistance.


TALULAR

(education) Initialism of Teaching And Learning Using Locally Available Resources.


preschooler

A child who has not yet attended school.


school year

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(education) The academic year of a school.


report card

And with that in mind, I'm going to distribute your report cards. Now, is there a Christian Stobich in this class?

1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Mr Hall (Wallace Shawn):

(education) A document, on cardboard or plain paper, stating which grades a student earned, at the end of a term of regular period.


second grade

(US, education) The period in school that comes after first grade and before third grade.

toinen luokka

period in school after first grade and before third grade


third grade

en-noun

third grade (countable and uncountable, plural third grades)

(US, education) The period in school that comes after second grade and before fourth grade.


fourth grade

(US, education) The period in school that comes after third grade and before fifth grade.


fifth grade

4) The Psychology Research Institute of the China Academy of Sciences carried out an experiment in teaching arithmetic in coordination with algebra in two classes of the fifth grade in the No. 2 experimental elementary school in Peking with good results. At a unified examination in arithmetic held among all elementary schools in Hsicheng ch’ü, Peking, the grades of the students in these two classes averaged better that 94.

1976 [1960], Ting-yi Lu, “Our Schooling System Must Be Reformed”, in Shi Ming Hu, Eli Seifman, editors, Toward a New World Outlook: A Documentary History of Education in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1976, New York: AMS Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 124:

(US, education) The period in school that comes after fourth grade and before sixth grade.


sixth grade

sixth grade (countable and uncountable, plural sixth grades)

(US, education) The period in school that comes after fifth grade and before seventh grade.


seventh grade

(US, education) The period in school that comes after sixth grade and before eighth grade.


eighth grade

(US, education) The period in school that comes after seventh grade and before ninth grade.


ninth grade

(US, education) The period in school that comes after eighth grade and before tenth grade.


tenth grade

(US, education) The period in school that comes after ninth grade and before eleventh grade.


eleventh grade

(US, education) The period in school that comes after tenth grade and before twelfth grade.

yhdestoista luokka

does not technically exist in Finland, but sometimes used of the first year in lukio


twelfth grade

(US, education) The period in school that comes after eleventh grade and, rarely in the US, before thirteenth grade.

kahdestoista luokka

does not technically exist in Finland, but sometimes used of the second year in lukio


grading

Today is my first grading exam.

(Philippines, education) Ellipsis of grading period.


pass-fail

Many may argue that pass-fail is the “easy way out.” However, a pass-fail weeder class may be more helpful than a traditional weeder class. Pass-fail gives students flexibility and time to learn content and material at their own pace.

2024 September 16, Opinion Department, “TIAS | It’s Time to Weed Out Weeder Courses”, in The Cornell Daily Sun:

(education) Describing a form of examination, etc. in which the student either passes or fails, without receiving a specific mark or grade.


professorship

And as regards histories of art, they are quite valueless to you unless you are seeking the ostentatious oblivion of an art professorship.

1883, Oscar Wilde, “Lecture to Art Students”, in Essays and Lectures:

She earned a professorship at Los Angeles City College, and taught theatre there for two years.

2022, Claire Chwalek, No Rest for a Heartbreaker, →ISBN:


fining

(Cambridge University slang) The activity of fining in general, as part of a meal or drinking game; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to sconcing at Oxford University.


double-dip

en-verb

double-dip (third-person singular simple present double-dips, present participle double-dipping, simple past and past participle double-dipped)

double-dips (present singular third-person)
double-dipping (participle present)
double-dipped (participle past)
double-dipped (past)

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(higher education) To enroll in a single class which will fulfill two different requirements of a course of study.


master's degree

en-noun

master's degree (plural master's degrees)

A postgraduate degree which aims to assist students in developing a mastery for a particular academic field or profession.

gtsug lag rab 'byams thon pa'i shes tshad lag 'khyer

གཙུག་ལག་རབ་འབྱམས་ཐོན་པའི་ཤེས་ཚད་ལག་འཁྱེར