teach to the test

en-verb

teach to the test (third-person singular simple present teaches to the test, present participle teaching to the test, simple past and past participle taught to the test)

teaches to the test (present singular third-person)
teaching to the test (participle present)
taught to the test (participle past)
taught to the test (past)

To teach in preparation for a standardized test, focusing narrowly on the material that will appear in the test.


Christmas graduate

en-noun

Christmas graduate (plural Christmas graduates)

(US, idiomatic, humorous) A freshman who drops out of college at the end of the first semester.


Buller

Writing in Radio Times, Michael Cockerell, the veteran political film-maker, reveals that the documentary includes a scene in which Johnson examines a famous photograph of himself, Cameron and other members of the “Buller” in their blue tailcoats with white silk facings, mustard waistcoats and gold buttons.

2013 March 19, Adam Sherwin, “‘Toffishness and twittishness’—Boris Johnson spills beans on Bullingdon Club and reveals childhood ambition to be ‘world king’”, in The Independent:

(Oxford University slang, dated) The Bullingdon Club.


Buller

Osborne is said to have been ragged by fellow Bullers over having attended St Paul's, the top London day school, which is, apparently, not posh enough.

2008 May 8, Barney Ronay, “Young, rich and drunk”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(Oxford University slang, dated) A member of the Bullingdon Club.


D.S.

Doctor of Science
Doctor of Science#English

(education) Initialism of Doctor of Science.


flipped classroom

flipped classroom (plural flipped classrooms)

A classroom that uses the flipped learning system of education.


normal school

Calque of French école normale, so called because the norms of pedagogy are taught there.

He had a sister, who had been sent to America with him at the same time to live with the uncle, who would graduate from normal school this year.

1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 122:

(obsolete) A school for training teachers, especially in mainland Europe and North America.


SVQ

Scottish Vocational Qualification
w:Scottish Vocational Qualification

(education) Initialism of Scottish Vocational Qualification.


patchwriting

(education) A form of plagiarism in which material by various writers is combined.


academy school

(UK, education) A kind of state-funded school in England that is independent of direct control by local government and has a curriculum specialism.


special education advocate

special education advocate (plural special education advocates)

(US) A professional, other than an attorney, who provides advice and representation regarding children with educational disabilities.


EM

EM (countable and uncountable, plural EMs)

(education) Initialism of English medium.


preparation room

preparation room (plural preparation rooms)

(sciences, education) a laboratory for preparing teaching materials


prep room

preparation room
preparation room#English

(sciences, education) Abbreviation of preparation room.


advanced degree

advanced degree (plural advanced degrees)

This is based on . . . the opinion of a vocational expert that "it is likely that Matthew would have graduated from college and obtained an advanced degree".

1998 November 3, Cathy Comerford, “Woodward sued for baby's lost millions”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2014-02-03:

Skeptics like to point out that the income gap isn’t rising as fast as it once was, especially for college graduates who don’t get an advanced degree.

2011 June 25, David Leonhardt, “Even for Cashiers, College Pays Off”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-02-03:

(education) A university degree, such as an MSc or PhD, awarded after a baccalaureate on completion of a further program of academic studies.


bachelor's degree

bachelor's degree (plural bachelor's degrees)

The first or lowest academic degree conferred by universities and colleges; a baccalaureate.

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

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

mtho rim rig gnas rab 'byams thon pa'i shes tshad lag 'khyer

མཐོ་རིམ་རིག་གནས་རབ་འབྱམས་ཐོན་པའི་ཤེས་ཚད་ལག་འཁྱེར


substitute teacher

substitute teacher (plural substitute teachers)

(Canada, US, India, Ireland) A supply teacher.


relief teacher

(Australia, New Zealand) A supply teacher.


MEM

Master of Engineering Management
w:Master of Engineering Management

(education) Initialism of Master of Engineering Management.

Master of Environmental Management
w:Master of Environmental Management

(education) Initialism of Master of Environmental Management.


poli sci

political science
political science#English

(university slang) Clipping of political science.


UP

University of the Philippines
w:University of the Philippines

(Philippines) Initialism of University of the Philippines.


Whitgiftian

en-adj

Whitgiftian (comparative more Whitgiftian, superlative most Whitgiftian)

more Whitgiftian (comparative)
most Whitgiftian (superlative)

Of or relating to John Whitgift (c.1530–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1583, whose theological views were often controversial.


bat and ball

(Australia, dated, education) A style of handwriting with distinct circles and straight lines, rather than a more cursive style.


hedge school

(historical, Ireland) A rudimentary school in 18th- and 19th-century Ireland, held outdoors or in a house or barn.

scoil chois claí

a rudimentary school in 18th- and 19th-century Ireland


Socratic method

Named for Socrates, who employs it in Plato's dialogues.

A method of teaching through questions rather than lectures.

ソクラテス式問答法

ソクラテスしきもんどうほう


school-leaver

And he has the following message for the latest generation of young school leavers. [...] "When you work on the railway you really do join a family, and everyone really looks after each other. I thoroughly recommend it."

2021 January 13, Paul Stephen, “I'd like to do it all over again”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 47:

A high-school student who has recently graduated.


keyworker

(UK, education) A childcare worker who monitors a child's development and participation in activities and discusses these with the child's parents or carer.


beacon school

From the figurative sense of beacon, since such schools were supposed to serve as an example to others.

(UK, education) A primary school or secondary school designated as outstanding under a government scheme that ran from 1998 to 2005.


Waldorfian

Waldorfian (comparative more Waldorfian, superlative most Waldorfian)

more Waldorfian (comparative)
most Waldorfian (superlative)

(education) Of or relating to Waldorf education.


IIT

Two years ago, when he’d started high school, Ma and Papa had launched a campaign to get him into IIT, hunting down private tutors who guaranteed success on billboards in Hazratganj city centre, finding question papers from previous years, notes from illustrious seniors, advice from inspirational students.

2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 79:

Indian Institute of Technology
w:Indian Institute of Technology

(education, India) Abbreviation of Indian Institute of Technology.


HEFCE

w:Higher Education Funding Council for England

(education) Initialism of Higher Education Funding Council for England.


Bod

(Oxford University slang) The Bodleian Library.


pigeon post

(UK, Oxford University slang) The university's internal mail system.


pidge

Clipping of pigeonhole, early 2000s. The verb is attested earlier than the noun.

You must hand your assigned work into my pidge at Nuffield by 5pm the Thursday before. Don’t be late.

2004, Alberto Behar, Introduction to Microeconomics: Tutorial Pack, St Hilda's College, Oxford, page 1

Toynbee examined the book with interest. 'He said it was put in your pidge?' he said.

2014, Emerald Fennell, Shiverton Hall: The Creeper, page 114:


pidge

en-verb

pidge (third-person singular simple present pidges, present participle pidging, simple past and past participle pidged)

pidges (present singular third-person)
pidging (participle present)
pidged (participle past)
pidged (past)

Please pidge your completed application form to the society president.

Possibilities to attract new members were: ¶ Pidge every fresher a flyer at the start of next Michaelmas

2001, “Finance & General Purpose Committee”, in PostScript, number 327, Oxford University Scout and Guide Group, page 6:

(Oxbridge slang, transitive) To post (something) in a pigeonhole.


St Catz

(Cambridge University slang) Contraction of St Catharine's, referring to St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

(Oxford University slang) Contraction of St Catherine's, referring to St Catherine's College, Oxford.


assistant professor

en-noun

assistant professor (plural assistant professors)

(education) An entry-level position in a university faculty, lower than an associate professor and a full professor.

tanársegéd

the lowest degree, approx. assistant lecturer


CLE

(Philippines, Christianity, education) Initialism of Christian Living Education.


A&P

(medicine, education) Initialism of anatomy and physiology.


rubber room

The film briefly visits a “rubber room” in New York City where idle teachers accused of misconduct wait months and sometimes years for hearings while drawing full salaries.

2010 September 23, Stephen Holden, “Movie Review: Waiting for 'Superman' (2010)”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-08-07:

The findings dropped the day before the one-year anniversary of his idling away in the rubber room, where teachers await disciplinary hearings.

2013 April 25, Corinne Lestch, “Report substantiates misuse of school property accusations against 'rubber roomed' teacher”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 2014-08-07:

(idiomatic, education) Especially in New York City, a temporary workplace assigned to a teacher who is not permitted to teach in a classroom because he or she is under disciplinary review.


Kumon method

Named after its Japanese founder, Toru Kumon.

(education) A mathematics and reading program through which students work at their own pace, intended to supplement school lessons.


resistant materials

This is clear, for example, in the case of GCSE D&T, where students have to follow a core course in resistant materials but can gain a GCSE by combining this with another course in food technology or textiles technology

2000, Carrie Paechter, Changing School Subjects, →ISBN, page 43:

We heard of a school that distributed timetables one week before the end of term; a boy who had been studying resistant materials throughout year 10 had food technology on his timetable.

2004, Adrian Percival, Susan Tranter, How to Run Your School Successfully, →ISBN, page 112:

There is some evidence that this may be the case with girls taking electronics, and systems and controls, and this is also the case in the advanced-level examinations but it does not hold for those girls choosing to study resistant materials or for those boys choosing to study textiles and food technology.

2013, Patricia Murphy, “Gender and Technology”, in Defining Technological Literacy: Towards an Epistemological Framework, →ISBN, page 224:

design and technology
design and technology

(education, UK) A school subject combining elements of woodwork, metalwork and plastic-work, sometimes a module of a larger design and technology syllabus.


HEA

Higher Education Academy
w:Higher Education Academy

(UK, education) Initialism of Higher Education Academy.


e-confident

en-adj

e-confident (comparative more e-confident, superlative most e-confident)

more e-confident (comparative)
most e-confident (superlative)

In these e-confident schools, the school workforce will also have potential access to the whole of the profession and be in a position to benchmark their practices, share ideas, critique and build new knowledge and professional practice […]

2004, Martin Coles, Geoff Southworth, Developing Leadership: Creating The Schools of Tomorrow:

information technology
information technology

(UK, education) Confident in the use and teaching of information technology.


e-confidence

(UK, education) Confidence in the use and teaching of information technology.


HSCT

en-noun

HSCT (countable and uncountable, plural HSCTs)

(US, education, historical) Initialism of high-school competency test. (a standardized test previously used by high schools in Florida)


teachworthy

en-adj

teachworthy (comparative more teachworthy, superlative most teachworthy)

more teachworthy (comparative)
most teachworthy (superlative)


senior school

The plaque is dedicated to Sir Henry Fowler (1870-1938), locomotive engineer and Chief Mechanical Engineer at both the Midland (from 1909) and LMS (from 1925). He was born and raised in the town, and attended the same senior school (Prince Henry's) as I did.

2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Evesham (1870)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 59:


day-scholar

My intimacy with these sisters goes back as far as my school days at Madame Chegaray's, where Frances Kellogg was a boarding pupil and in a class higher than mine when I was a day-scholar.

1911, Marian Campbell Gouverneur, As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century, D. Appleton, page 216:

A pupil who attends a boarding school during the day, but lives at home.


umbrella school

en-noun

umbrella school (plural umbrella schools)

An alternative school that oversees the homeschooling of children to ensure that it fulfils government educational requirements.


bowl game

From Rose Bowl Game, played in the Rose Bowl stadium, in turn named for the bowl-shaped Yale Bowl.

(US, American football) A postseason college football competition.

Rose Bowl (stadium)
Rose Bowl Game
Yale Bowl


AGCAS

(UK, education) Initialism of Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services.


ECE

Initialism of early childhood education.


antivoucher

en-adj

antivoucher (comparative more antivoucher, superlative most antivoucher)

more antivoucher (comparative)
most antivoucher (superlative)

(education) Opposing a school voucher scheme.


educationalism

The belief in education as an approach or strategy.


cégep

(Quebec) A publicly funded school that combines grade 12 with either college or freshman year of university, depending on the programme. It can be a public-sector school or a private school with some public funding, though those with "CEGEP" in the name are usually public-sector. In Québec's system, it is a required step between secondary school (ending in grade 11) and university (starting in sophomore year).


proggins

And the Proggins! Isn't his velvet sleeves like a woman's?

1907, Arthur Stringer, The Loom of Destiny, page 142:

I got hold of his arm to take him to college, steering him with some difficulty. When we were opposite St. Mary's the cry of 'The proggins (proctor) is coming' was raised, and I saw him with the bulldogs about thirty yards in front of us.

1992, Malcolm Graham, Images of Victorian Oxford, page 80:


paideia

From Ancient Greek παιδείᾱ (paideíā, “rearing of a child, education”), from παιδεύω (paideúō, “rear a child”) + -ίᾱ (-íā), from παῖς (paîs, “child”).

suffix

(Ancient Greece, historical, education) An Athenian system of education designed to give students a broad cultural background focusing on integration into the public life of the city-state with subject matter including gymnastics, grammar, rhetoric, music, mathematics, geography, natural history, and philosophy

(Ancient Greece, historical, education) The epitome of physical and intellectual achievement to which an Ancient Greek citizen could aspire; societal and cultural perfection.

(Early Christianity, historical, education) An early model of Christian higher learning having theology as its chief subject.

(US, education, frequently attributive) A pedagogical system focusing on providing children with a broad and balanced education.


PWI

[…] one attended a PWI for her undergraduate degree and earned her master's and doctorate from an HBCU; one participant attended a PWI for his bachelor's degree, an HBCU for his master's, and is currently pursuing a doctorate at a PWI[…]

2012 August 1, Robert T. Palmer, Adriel A. Hilton, Tiffany Patrice Fountaine, Black Graduate Education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, IAP, →ISBN, page 46:

[…] HBCUs. Much of the majority as minority research on the experiences of White students in the HBCU used Schwitzer, Griffin, Ancis, and Thomas' (1999) model of the social adjustment of Black students to a PWI as the framework (Closson[…]

2015 July 1, Ted N. Ingram, Derek Greenfield, Joelle D. Carter, Adriel A. Hilton, Exploring Issues of Diversity within HBCUs, IAP, →ISBN, page 189:

Initialism of predominantly (or primarily) white institution (in education).


monograde

(education) Relating to students of the same grade level.


NEST

(education) Initialism of native English-speaking teacher.


scheme of studies

en-noun

scheme of studies (plural schemes of studies)

(chiefly South Asia) A timetabled academic curriculum.


flipped learning

(education) A system of education in which students learn new material by watching video lectures outside the classroom, and what used to be homework (assigned problems) is done in guided classes instead.


RSE

(UK, education) Initialism of relationships and sex education.


Baker day

After Kenneth Baker, the minister who introduced them in 1988 as part of a series of education reforms.


INSET day

Coordinate term: teacher workday

(UK, education) A day during term-time on which pupils do not attend school, but staff take part in training or complete administrative tasks.


Ole Miss

From a submission by Elma Meek of a name for the 1897 yearbook, either from ole Mississippi or ole missus.


study group

A small group of people who meet regularly to discuss a shared field of study.


degree place

The UGC-funded institutions and their continuing education units together with the private institutions totally provide around 20,000 first year degree places and 25,000 first year sub-degree places.

2013, Simon K.S. Cheung, Joseph Fong, Wilfred Fong, Hybrid Learning and Continuing Education:

The UGC-funded universities and the self-financing, degree-awarding institutions also provided around 4,600 Senior-year undergraduate places and 11,500 top-up degree places respectively for sub-degree graduates and students with other qualifications.

At the beginning of the 1980s, university degree places in Hong Kong were available to only 2 percent of the relevant student population.

2017, Gerard A. Postiglione, Julian Leung Yat Ming, Education and Society in Hong Kong:

An available place or slot for earning a degree at an institution such as a university or college.


professional student

professional student (plural professional students)

(derogatory, US) Someone who takes college classes to avoid having to assume adult responsibilities after graduating from high school.


prenursery

(agriculture, education) Before entering a nursery.


students' union

students' union (plural students' unions)

(UK) A student organization present in many colleges, universities, and high schools. In higher education, the students' union is often accorded its own building on the campus, dedicated to social, organizational activities, and representation.


student loan

(education, finance) A loan granted to a student in higher education to help pay for the tuition.


vested school

(historical) A national school built by the aid of grants from the board of Commissioners of National Education and secured for educational purposes by leases to the commissioners themselves, or to the commissioners and the trustees.


e-tutoring

tutoring via electronic media, especially the Internet


Chautauqua system

(education, historical) The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, New York, by the Methodist Episcopal bishop John Heyl Vincent.


transmissionism

Teaching and learning methods were therefore forced to perpetuate transmissionism and traditional assessment approaches, given that attention to the individual was completely out of question.

2010, Valerie Pellatt, Kate Griffiths, Shao-Chuan Wu, Teaching and Testing Interpreting and Translating, page 156:

(education) A teaching style focused on transmitting facts without regard to the individual student.


Lambeth degree

An academic degree conferred by the Archbishop of Canterbury under the authority of the Ecclesiastical Licences Act 1533.


DUniv

Abbreviation of doctor of the university: a kind of honorary academic degree


word method

(education) A method of teaching reading in which words are first taken as single ideograms and later analyzed into their phonetic and alphabetic elements.


Class Day

Princeton's Class Day speaker in 2006 was Bill Clinton

(US, education) In colleges and universities, a day of the commencement season on which the senior class celebrates the completion of its course by exercises conducted by the members, such as the reading of the class histories and poem, the delivery of the class oration, the planting of the class ivy, etc.


school-goer

What sort of English is typical in the classroom of the 'average' Xhosaspeaking South African school-goer in the twenty-first century?

2010, Vivian de Klerk, Corpus Linguistics and World Englishes, →ISBN, page 212:


Mizzou

Either derived from Missouri or from the university's initials, MSU.

(chiefly informal) The University of Missouri.


metatalk

(linguistics, education) Talk, especially involving academic analysis, about speaking or talking; verbal metadiscourse.


transformationalism

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"That's why you need Transformationalism," he said. "Your mind has to evolve to match this permanent situation of permanent change. You've got to get rid of that instantaneous personality that was frozen in a previous cultural matrix that no longer exists...."

1980, Norman Spinrad, The Mind Game, page 64:

According to Mezirow (2000), transformationalism helps adults make sense of their environment so they can act upon it. This is a complex process in which the personalities of the teachers and learners interact with the educational setting and the political environment. Learners examine themselves and the beliefs they bring to the learning experience.

2007, Edith Valladares McElroy, The Effects of the College Student Success Course on the Retention and Academic Performance of English as a Second Language Students Enrolled in Developmental Reading and English at Central Piedmont Community College, →ISBN, page 5:

For me, this is part of transformationalism. A transformationalist does not just favour change: they foment it.

2010, Anne Boran, Poverty: Malaise of Development, →ISBN, page 57:

At the next level, we must practice transformationalism, which goes hand in hand with unlearning.

2012, Kurt April, Nick D Milton, Performance Through Learning, →ISBN, page v:

(sociology, education) A sociological and educational theory that focuses on the process of learned concepts and skills to reframe and transform unthinking culturally-generated assumptions and cognitive categories.


daygirl

A girl who attends a boarding school only during the day


gentleman's C

gentleman's C (plural gentleman's Cs or gentlemen's Cs)

gentleman's Cs (plural)
gentlemen's Cs (plural)

As a scholar, he was content to squeak by, passing his courses with a "gentleman's C" and an occasional B.

1992, Russell Freedman, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 20:

I always got the same grade: a C. It was not a "gentleman's C," it was just a C.

2007, Thomas F. Bayard, No Cats in Vietnam: The Memoir of a Straightleg Engineer, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 28:

An academic pass grade unfairly awarded to an otherwise failing student because of social advantages, such as a privileged family background.


area studies

Interdisciplinary fields of research pertaining to particular geographical or cultural regions.


therapeutic boarding school

therapeutic boarding school (plural therapeutic boarding schools)

A residential school which provides therapy and education.


driving school

An institution where people learn to drive a land vehicle such as a car or motorcycle.


Welsh not

(historical) A piece of wood or similar object used to discourage the speaking of Welsh in schools. Any child overheard speaking Welsh was given the "not", and the child who had it at the end of the day would be punished.


school refusal

school refusal (countable and uncountable, plural school refusals)

The refusal of children or teens to go to school because of some sort of emotional distress. This can be caused by separation or social anxiety disorders, depression, or a phobia.


drillable

To indicate to the business user of the report that more detailed information is available behind the summary group level, the mouse pointer turns into a magnifying glass icon when it floats over a drillable section (for example, the yellow count field of customer contacts, located in the Group Header #1 section).

2006, Neil FizGerald, James Edkins, Annette Jonker, Michael Voloshko, Crystal Reports XI Official Guide, page 188:

If a report has a pivot table with drillable elements, then the report should make the pivot table available through a view selector that also contains a tabular view.

2009, Amy Mayer, Kevin McGinley, Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Dashboard and Report Best Practices, page 19:

We spent some time discussing the notion of 'drillable' experiments, which can be introduced to students at an early age, then periodically revisited and explored in greater detail as students progress through their educational careers.

2015, Vânia Zuin, Liliana Mammino, Worldwide Trends in Green Chemistry Education:

Although spreadability and drillability often work in opposing directions, with spreadable media generally reaching a larger, less engaged audience, and drillable media typically reaching a smaller, yet more engaged one, the possibility exists for a text to be simultaneously spreadable and drillable (Mittell, “Forensic Fandom”).

2017, Matt Yockey, Make Ours Marvel: Media Convergence and a Comics Universe, page 237:

Lost became a bit of a cultural sensation and has inspired a wide range of drillable TV series such as Mr. Robot, Westworld, and Severance. Each of these shows teased the audience with the nature of its basic reality yet had deeply loyal fans who scoured episodes for possible theories concerning the uncertain storylines.

2023, Charles Soukup, Christina R. Foust, Popular Culture in Everyday Life, page 127:

(computing, education, media studies) Supporting a drilldown action in which one can discover more details about a topic or text.

A second explanation and provision for practice of drillable items will reinforce your presentation for those who need a second exposure.

1987, Anita Woolfolk Hoy, Educational Psychology, page 83:

Both the drillable subject matter and the types of test that measure it make cheating especially easy (see p. 229).

2014, Patricia Clark Kenschaft, Math Power: How to Help Your Child Love Math, Even If You Don't, page 200:

Deconstruct complex tasks like speaking a language, playing a sport or writing an essay into a set of small, specific drillable elements.

2023, Tom Sherrington, WalkThru 5-step guides to build great teaching, page 238:

(education) Appropriate for learning through repeated practice (drill).


escalator school

escalator school (plural escalator schools)

So called because students usually rise to the next grade without having to take entrance exams.

A Japanese school offering education from elementary or middle-school level (or even from the kindergarten) up to the start of university.


study guide

(education) A book or other resource intended to provide key notes and concepts for people studying a particular topic or course.


KA

(Oxford University slang) The King's Arms pub in Oxford.


private docent

Calque of German Privatdozent. Doublet of privatdozent.

(in German-speaking countries) An associate professor (in a university) who has obtained a doctorate, written a habilitation thesis and given a lecture in the hope of becoming a full professor.


educatory

en-adj

educatory (comparative more educatory, superlative most educatory)

more educatory (comparative)
most educatory (superlative)


first reader

(education, publishing) A book for children who are learning to read, usually consisting of pictures and some basic words or phrases.


superhead

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They want regular emails, not league tables, and the right to call a teacher, not a new superhead.

2009 March 22, Amelia Hill, “Manners matter more than grades, say parents”, in The Observer:

(informal, UK, education) A specialist headteacher sent, by government or other authority, to reorganise and improve a school that is perceived to be failing.


Pre-U

(UK, education) A school-leaving qualification that is an alternative to A levels.


half term

I have just visited him at his mother's home where he is spending half term and we reminisced while looking at his photo album.

Georgia's not a very good correspondent, which is perfectly reasonable at her age, but she didn't come down for half term and then she didn't come for Easter either.

2011, Marcia Willett, Hattie's Mill, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

“Good idea. The boy seems to be coping quite well, although I had a feeling he wasn't too happy about spending half term in Crete with his old grandpa."

2011, Patricia Fenn, Poseidon's Trident, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:

"We had an extraordinary February half term - I think we had 22,000 visitors in the seven days. Which actually is a bit like bedlam at times."

2020 June 3, Sam Mullins OBE discusses with Stefanie Foster, “LTM: a new chapter begins at 40”, in Rail, page 54:

(UK) A short school holiday in the middle of the term.


ulpan

Borrowed from Hebrew אולפן / אֻלְפָּן (ulpán, “studio”).

bor

אולפן / אֻלְפָּן

An Israeli school where the Hebrew language is taught to new immigrants.


minilesson

Children eventually bring their book bins to the meeting area for minilessons, and during minilessons they sit beside their reading partners in assigned rug spots.

2001, Lucy McCormick Calkins, The Art of Teaching Reading, →ISBN, page 280:


microlesson

(education) A very short lesson, typically lasting a few minutes.


microteaching

(education) A teaching technique in which short lessons are videotaped and subsequently reviewed by the teacher in order to gauge their success.


Cornell

From Cornwall, spelling conflated with the Latin family name Cornelius.

Admittedly, Cornell does offer courses such as CHEM 1007 (Academic support), CHEM 1560 (Intro to Gen Chem) and CHEM 1729 (Solve it!) as precursors or supports to 2070, but they are still not adequate to address the inequity created by 2070’s weed-out methodology.

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


gaokao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 高考 (gāokǎo, literally “higher [education] [entrance] examination”).

higher 􂀿education􂁀 􂀿entrance􂁀 examination

In recent years, education officials have made a number of proposals, including revising elementary and middle school textbooks to increase the proportion of guoxue, or the study of Chinese culture, and reducing the importance of English on some versions of the gaokao, or university entrance examination, in favor of a greater emphasis on the Chinese language.

2015 September 30, Amy Qin, “A Fervor to Glimpse ‘China’s Mona Lisa’”, in New York Times:

(China, education) The National Higher Education Entrance Examination held annually in China as a prerequisite for entrance into most forms of higher education.


pre-med

Coordinate term: prelaw

An undergraduate college academic program, typically in biochemistry or related sciences, that prepares a student to pursue graduate or post-graduate studies in medicine.


higher learning

Over the years, he has held various appointments, including former trustee of the journalists association and research society of the College newspapers of the institutions of higher learning in Hubei, correspondent of Information newspaper and newspaper of Wuhan Grain Industry College, editor of the Reference on Party and Government at colleges and universities and trustee of the research society of the management of personnel affairs at the institutions of higher learning in Sichuan.

1992, “Yu-chang Han”, in International Who's Who of Intellectuals, Ninth edition, Cambridge, England: International Biographical Centre, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 305:


all-through school

en-noun

all-through school (plural all-through schools)

So called because a pupil can go all the way through the education system without changing schools.

(UK, education) A combined primary school and secondary school.


rising three

(UK, education) A child who will turn three years old during the school term, and may therefore count as a three-year-old for the purposes of registering at a school.


buddy bench

(education) A bench in a school playground where children who are lonely or suffering from bullying, etc., can go to seek friends.


'cher

Student A: "Cher cher! Can I go to the loo?" Teacher: "Go lah go lah!".

1998 August 14, mrbrown, “The Great Singlish/Singapore Dialect Dictionary”, in mrbrown.com:

Teacher: WHO DID THAT? B: Cher cher, him! I saw! *points to A*

I suppose it was a lot better than being addressed as ‘cher, but at the time I kept wishing I had ended up in a junior college instead.

2014 March 9, Manoj Harjani, Chapalang Magazine:

(Manglish, Singlish) A teacher (a person who teaches in a school).


SRE

SRE (countable and uncountable, plural SREs)

Coordinate term: sex education

(education, UK) Initialism of sex and relationship education.


Ugger

Jocular modification of Union + -er. See Oxford "-er".

(Oxford University slang, archaic) The Oxford Union.


marksheet

(education) A document indicating the marks awarded for academic work.


HWB

HWB (countable and uncountable, plural HWBs)

Hwb (Digital Learning for Wales)
w:Hwb (Digital Learning for Wales)

(education) Initialism of Hwb (Digital Learning for Wales) (a website and collection of online tools provided to all schools in Wales, UK)


elhi

elhi textbooks

During the peak elhi periods, manufacturers are already running 24-hour shifts and are employing outside help in order to meet current demand. Consequently, the only way to increase their capacity is to plan the work more efficiently.

1989, Book Industry Study Group, Strategic Information Services, Elementary-high school textbooks, page 13:

elementary school
elementary school#English

(education, publishing, jargon, often attributive) Clipping of elementary school/high school. In some countries, the period of elementary school through high school.


UCD

It was at UCD in 2010 that the accident happened.

2019 February 7, Alan Dymock, “Ian McKinley: The Italian rugby player who overcame a burst eye”, in CNN:

University College Dublin
w:University College Dublin

Initialism of University College Dublin.


B. Litt.

Abbreviation of Latin "Baccalaureatus Litterarum".

Bachelor of Letters
Bachelor of Letters#English


magic e

Write the following words in a column on a printing tablet or whiteboard: fat, mat, rat, cap, pan, hid, at, and us. Ask your child to wave his magic wand, add an e with his pencil, and see the new words he makes as he adds the magic e.

2011, Susan M. Greve, Phonics for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 114:

(education) A silent e (in certain English words, such as cake and time) that appears to change the pronunciation of the preceding vowel.


scan sheet

multiple-choice question
multiple-choice question

(education) A machine-readable sheet of paper on which a student indicates his or her answers to multiple-choice questions.


little Ivy

(US, education, informal) A small liberal arts college that has the academic quality or prestige of an Ivy League university.


unschool

en-verb

unschool (third-person singular simple present unschools, present participle unschooling, simple past and past participle unschooled)

unschools (present singular third-person)
unschooling (participle present)
unschooled (participle past)
unschooled (past)

He cooks his own food, lends a hand to neighboring farmers in exchange for portions of their crops, and unschools his 11-year-old daughter, Seraya.

2014, Blake Boles, The Art of Self-Directed Learning, →ISBN, page 172:

Nathan and Lisa Freeman, an Acapulco-curious couple who are unschooling their kids, join the cast of characters when they show up to the 2015 event and realize that the constantly inebriated Berwick could use some organizational help.

2022 July 8, Judy Berman, “The Anarchists Is a Messy, Gripping Anarcho-Capitalist Saga”, in Time:

(transitive) To educate (a child) in an alternative to the regular school method, focused on the learner-chosen activities as a primary means for learning.


Power Five

(American football) The five college football conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC) that traditionally contain the strongest programs, and whose champions are guaranteed berths in one of the six bowl games associated with the College Football Playoff.


egg crate

en-noun

egg crate (countable and uncountable, plural egg crates)

Classrooms became larger, but the egg crate design was maintained.

1976, Richard D. Fish, Bradley M. Loomer, Elementary Open-space Schools:

Much like teachers are sometimes described as working in their separate little egg crates, school administrators can also be very isolated from one another.

2009, Identifying the Needs of Beginning Elementary School, →ISBN, page 1:

Lortie coined the phrase "egg crate school," which refers to a type of organization wherein "each teacher was assigned specific areas of responsibility and was expected to teach students the stipulated knowledge and skills without assistance from others."

2003, Gail Bush, The School Buddy System: The Practice of Collaboration, →ISBN, page 20:

Egg crates are a much less satisfactory model for schools.

2013, William Powell, Ochan Kusuma-Powell, Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Teacher, →ISBN, page 152:

(countable, education) A self-contained class that has no collaboration or interaction with any other class, and which is the sole responsibility of a single teacher.


full ride

The Ivy Group and the Big Ten were the most notable conferences to initially avoid full ride scholarships.

2007, Applying Amateurism in the Global Sports Arena, →ISBN, page 22:

If you showed half the interest in school as most of the kids, you could get a full ride to any college in the country.

2009, James E. Davis, 2049, →ISBN, page 233:

For some reason, his college counselor saw talent in Ron that he didn't see himself, and when the SAT scores came out, Ron was offered a full ride to Louisiana State.

2012, Kaira Rouda, All The Difference, →ISBN, page 121:

But because we didn't have any money, the notion of applying to a college that specialized in theater— by that time the die was fully cast—seemed a waste of time unless I was going to get a full ride.

2014, Ron Perlman, Easy Street (the Hard Way): A Memoir, →ISBN, page 52:

(idiomatic, education) A scholarship that covers all tuition, and in some cases fees or other educational and living expenses as well.


business studies

An academic subject covering various elements of business, such as accountancy and marketing.


UConn

University of Connecticut
w:University of Connecticut

Abbreviation of University of Connecticut.


UChicago

University of Chicago
w:University of Chicago


public Ivy

(US, education, informal) A public university that has the academic quality or prestige of an Ivy League university.


Cal Poly

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona


UMich

University of Michigan
w:University of Michigan


UMass

University of Massachusetts
w:University of Massachusetts

Abbreviation of University of Massachusetts.


Georgia Tech

(informal) Georgia Institute of Technology


UPenn

University of Pennsylvania
w:University of Pennsylvania

(informal) Abbreviation of University of Pennsylvania.


Sac State

(informal) California State University, Sacramento


Virginia Tech

(informal) Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University


UVic

University of Victoria
w:University of Victoria


sixteener

(historical) During the American Civil War, a child who, having reached the age of 16, was discharged from a soldiers' orphan school.


skywrite

en-verb

skywrite (third-person singular simple present skywrites, present participle skywriting, simple past skywrote, past participle skywritten)

skywrites (present singular third-person)
skywriting (participle present)
skywrote (past)
skywritten (participle past)

(education) To spell a word by tracing it in the air with one's finger.


stopout

(education) A student who leaves an academic institution but later returns to continue studying.


erotematic

en-adj

erotematic (comparative more erotematic, superlative most erotematic)

more erotematic (comparative)
most erotematic (superlative)

Borrowed from New Latin erōtēmaticus, from Koine Greek ἐρωτηματικός (erōtēmatikós, “interrogative; relating to questions”), from ἐρώτημα (erṓtēma, “question”) + -ικός (-ikós). Equivalent to obsolete erotema (“question”) + -tic.

der

ἐρωτηματικός

Coordinate term: acroamatic

[Questions] employment here does not mark a shift from the acroamatic (lecture-based) to the erotematic (interrogatory) method, for the answers are not known.

2015, Nils F. Schott, "A Mother to All" in Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World, p. 108, n. 45

(education) Interrogatory, proceeding by means of questions.


MCSD

(education) Initialism of Merced City School District, (a California school district headquartered in Merced)

Merced City School District

(education) Initialism of Metropolitan State University of Denver, (also known as "Metropolitan State College of Denver", a public university in Denver, Colorado)

Metropolitan State University of Denver

(education) Initialism of Muscogee County School District, (the county government agency which operates the public schools of Muscogee County, Georgia)


compulsory education

(law, education) A period of time in a child's life during which the child must receive schooling as required by law.


associate professor

en-noun

associate professor (plural associate professors)

China's current economic challenges will be an "important factor" in Mr Xi's negotiations and "would lead to a stronger desire to stabilise the economic, trade and investment relations with the US", Li Mingjiang, an associate professor at Singapore's S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, told the BBC.

2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC:

(education) A teacher in a higher education institution who ranks above an assistant professor and below a professor.


faggery

Was it to be borne, that when the Slaves had been emancipated in the West Indies, and the Factory children had, been relieved from their incessant labour, that they were still to be doomed to the servile condition of Faggery, and be kept six hours a-day in school?

1839, “The Triumvirate”, in The Carthusian: A Miscellany in Prose and Verse, volume 1, page 182:

And, as faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched by profane hands, he lodged no idle complaints.

1853, Thomas De Quincey, “Autobiographic Sketches”, in Philip Van Doren Stern, editor, Selected Writings Of Thomas De Quincey, published 1937, The Nation of London, page 190:

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


world literature

Comparative literature
comparative literature


Common Core

(US) The Common Core State Standards Initiative, an effort to provide standards to evaluate achievement among US primary and secondary school students in basic subjects and thereby facilitate and motivate teaching of those subjects.


VCU

Richmond poet Rik Davis taught a poetry class at Free University while he was a sophomore English major at VCU.

2013, Dale M. Brumfield, Richmond Independent Press:

Debbie Yow had fired Sidney Lowe at the end of the 2011 season and set her sights on Shaka Smart, the VCU wunderkind coach who had taken the Rams to the Final Four that spring, to replace Lowe.

2016, John Feinstein, The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry:

Virginia Commonwealth University
w:en:Virginia Commonwealth University

Initialism of Virginia Commonwealth University.


Bodder

Jocular modification of Bodleian + -er. See Oxford "-er".

(Oxford University slang, archaic) The Bodleian Library.


EHC

(UK, education) Initialism of education, health, and care.


circle time

circle time (countable and uncountable, plural circle times)

(education) Time spent by a group sitting together to take part in an activity.


organic intellectual

organic intellectual (plural organic intellectuals)

Coined by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci.

An intellectual member of a social class, as opposed to a member of the traditional intelligentsia that regards itself as a class apart from the rest of society.


foundation degree

foundation degree (plural foundation degrees)

(education, UK) A vocational qualification in higher education, intended to give comprehensive knowledge in a subject to enable the holder to go on to employment or further study in that field.


CertHE

higher education
higher education#English

(education) Abbreviation of certificate of higher education.


magister juris

An academic degree in law awarded by some universities.


visiting scholar

visiting scholar (plural visiting scholars)

(education) A scholar from an institution who visits a host university to teach, lecture or perform research on a particular topic.


language arts

The study of language as a subject in primary school and secondary school, with a particular focus on essay writing and debate.

語言藝術 /语言艺术

study of language as a subject in primary and secondary school


MPhys

The new degree scheme will provide students with the opportunity to gain the professional qualification of an MPhys degree while specialising in topics related to cosmology and nuclear physics.

A physicist by background he studied for an MPhys at the University of Oxford and holds a PhD from the University of London.

2013, Christopher Hobbs, Matthew Moran, Exploring Regional Responses to a Nuclear Iran: Nuclear Dominoes?, Springer, →ISBN:

They met by chance when she returned to the university to collect some certificates that her work required to see: Henle left the university following her MPhys to work as an investment banker.

2014, Leo X. Robertson, Sinkhole, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 9:


MMath

It is clear that these courses provide a more highly focused and specialised training than is envisaged in the recommended four-year MMath degree.

2002, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Radar 2002: 15-17 October 2002, Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh, UK., Inspec/Iee
Carole L. Tham received her MMath(Hons.) degree in Mathematics from the University of Manchester, UK.

He received his MMath and BMath degrees from the school of Computer Science of the University of Waterloo in 1999 and 2001.

2012, Kang Zhang, Software Visualization: From Theory to Practice, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN:


MChem

Biographical sketch Martin A. Wilson was born in Poole in Dorset, England. He received his MChem degree from the University of East Anglia in 2001.

2005, Alan Roy Katritzky, Richard J. K. Taylor, Ray C. F. Jones, Comprehensive organic functional group transformations II.: Carbon with two heteroatoms with at least one carbon-to-heteroatom multiple link, →ISBN:

Sarah (28) was put off continuing by her year in industry during her MChem degree.

2009, Clare Beckett, Owen Heathcote, Marie Macey, Negotiating Boundaries? Identities, Sexualities, Diversities, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 65:

In 2000 he obtained an MChem degree from Cardiff University, and in early 2004 was awarded a PhD degree by Queen Mary University London.

2015, Meng Li, John S. Fossey, Tony D. James, Boron: Sensing, Synthesis and Supramolecular Self-Assembly, Royal Society of Chemistry, →ISBN:


little Johnny

Obviously, few counselors would sit idly by while little Johnny became a bandit. To do so would be socially unethical and indeed would violate the very philosophy of teaching.

1950, California Journal of Secondary Education, volume 25, page 335:

First, create a "board" titled Johnny's Education, for example. Then, search for the items that will help you support little Johnny's educational needs, and pin them to your Johnny's Education board.

2013, Jillian Smart, Parent Support: 30 Ways to Support Your Child's Education:

Schools insist that everything is under their purview—what your kids eat, what they believe, what they say on the playground. Because as long as the school system is doing everything, maybe you won't notice that little Johnny can't read.

2013, Mike Gallagher, 50 Things Liberals Love to Hate, page 210:

An archetypal child in the context of the education system.


social autopsy

social autopsy (plural social autopsies)

(education) The situation where adults help an autistic child to understand what went wrong in a prior social interaction.


J-term

(US, education) Abbreviation of January term.


comprehensivize

en-verb

comprehensivize (third-person singular simple present comprehensivizes, present participle comprehensivizing, simple past and past participle comprehensivized)

comprehensivizes (present singular third-person)
comprehensivizing (participle present)
comprehensivized (participle past)
comprehensivized (past)

comprehensive school
comprehensive school

(UK, education) To adapt the education system to be based on comprehensive schools.


dictogloss

en-noun

dictogloss (countable and uncountable, plural dictoglosses)

(education) A technique for teaching grammatical structures, in which students first take notes as the teacher reads and then, in small groups, attempt to summarize the text in the target language.


REF

(UK, education) Initialism of Research Excellence Framework: a system for assessing the quality of research in higher-education institutions.


abisselfa

Condensed form of A by itself, A. Compare ampersand.

It dawned upon me that abisselfa was an English translation of a-per-se-a, a-by-itself-a. So also e-by-itself-e became ebisselfe. Similarly ibisselfi, obisselfo, ubisselfu. This nomenclature was confined to the vowels as being the only letters that could stand by themselves.

1891, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America:

(obsolete, colloquial, US, education) The letter A when it stands alone within a word, not forming part of a diphthong, etc.


MFL

(education) Initialism of modern foreign languages.


sainik school

(India) A school that prepares children for a military academy.


learning streak

learning streak (plural learning streaks)

A series of mistakes, sometimes also with successes, that help to educate a person


technical school

technical school (plural technical schools)

A school that provides training in practical skills such as welding, hairdressing, plumbing and so on.


educational institution

educational institution (plural educational institutions)

A place where people of different ages gain an education, including preschools, childcare, elementary schools, and universities.


SENCO

(UK, education) Abbreviation of special educational needs coordinator.


DfE

Department for Education
w:Department for Education

(UK, education, UK politics) Initialism of Department for Education.


TIP

w:Technological Institute of the Philippines

(Philippines, education) Initialism of Technological Institute of the Philippines.


ONC

Ordinary National Certificate
w:Ordinary National Certificate

(UK, education) Initialism of Ordinary National Certificate.


WSU

(initialism) Washington State University.


Harrow

From Old English hearg (“altar; grove, temple”), from Proto-Germanic *harugaz.

inh

Harrow School
Harrow, London
London Borough of Harrow

A prestigious public school for boys, in the town of Harrow.


B.N.

(education) Initialism of Bachelor of Nursing.


Carnegie unit

Used since 1906; from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which was itself named after Andrew Carnegie.

(education, US) A time-based unit of measurement used in American secondary schools to track student educational attainment. Each unit represents 120 hours of class or contact time with an instructor over the course of a year.


syndeticity

From syndetic + -ity. Equivalent to syndeton + -icity.

Values within affordances were ranked and assigned metric values. Standardized canonical discriminant function coefficients of .835, .515, and .298 for complexity, concreteness, and syndeticity.

1994, Mary Esther Brown, Children's Naming of Subject Categories..., Drexel University, p. 79

The state or quality of being syndetic, particularly

(library science) The use of crossreferences or the ability to be crossreferenced.


SIC

(education, chiefly South Carolina) Initialism of School Improvement Council.


EOC

(US, education) Initialism of end-of-course test.


EDGE

(scouting, education) Explain, demonstrate, guide, enable; an educating method.


nonprovided

(UK, education, historical) Of a school: not operated and funded by the school board.


short-answer

fill in the blank
fill in the blank#English

(education, chiefly attributive) A type of question or prompt, especially found in school quizzes and tests, which usually requires the student to write in sentences, as opposed to multiple-choice, fill in the blank, or other question types which require less writing.


Doctor of Humane Letters

en-noun

Doctor of Humane Letters (plural Doctors of Humane Letters)

A degree that is almost always conferred as an honorary degree, usually to those who have distinguished themselves in areas other than science, government, literature or religion.


L.H.D.

Doctor of Humane Letters
Doctor of Humane Letters#English

(education) Initialism of Doctor of Humane Letters.


Art.D.

(education) Initialism of Doctor of Arts.


Doctor of Science

Doctor of Science (plural Doctors of Science)

An academic research degree awarded in a number of countries throughout the world. (Latin: Scientiæ Doctor)


Sc.D.

Doctor of Science
Doctor of Science#English

(education) Initialism of Doctor of Science.


pull a sickie

en-verb

pull a sickie (third-person singular simple present pulls a sickie, present participle pulling a sickie, simple past and past participle pulled a sickie)

pulls a sickie (present singular third-person)
pulling a sickie (participle present)
pulled a sickie (participle past)
pulled a sickie (past)

But not all excuses for pulling a sickie are equal, it seems.

2015 November 7, Lucy White, “The most acceptable reasons to take a sick day revealed”, in The Independent:

We decided to check exactly what your boss can - and can't - do to employees who bunk off, tune in at work, slide off to the pub or pull a sickie.

2016 June 16, James Andrews, Julia Rampen, “Can you be sacked for watching England-Wales at work? These are your rights”, in Daily Mirror:

(slang, UK, Australia, New Zealand) To skip work or school or avoid an obligation by pretending to be sick.

ilmoittautua sairaaksi

to feign illness so to take time off work


UAL

University of the Arts London
w:University of the Arts London

(education) Initialism of University of the Arts London.


ECTS

w:European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System

(education) Initialism of European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System.


OSU

(initialism) Oklahoma State University–Stillwater.


academentia

/ˌæ.kəˈdɪˈmɛn.ʃə/

(education, slang) The state of insanity or loss of touch with reality allegedly due to the academic environment.


Leaving Certificate

en-noun

Leaving Certificate (countable and uncountable, plural Leaving Certificates)

(Ireland) The certificate awarded to Irish students who pass the state examinations at the end of secondary school.


Junior Certificate

Junior Certificate (countable and uncountable, plural Junior Certificates)

The certificate awarded to Irish students who pass the state examinations at the end of the third year of secondary school.


Philosothon

An annual competition where students explore philosophical and ethical issues.


mass communication

Communication directed to the mass of the people or through mass media.


forensic medicine

The application of medical science to criminal investigation, especially in establishing the causes of injury or death.


skid car

(automotive education) A car with a frame on casters attached to it (a skid frame), which lowers the effective weight of the car on its tires, allowing easy skids, simulating aquaplaning and driving on ice


D.Phil.

D.Phil. (plural D.Phils or D.Phil.'s or D.Phil.s)

D.Phils (plural)
D.Phil.'s (plural)
D.Phil.s (plural)

Oxford University
w:University of Oxford

(Oxford University, otherwise historical) Synonym of Ph.D. (as awarded by Oxford University.)

Oxford University; otherwise historical; Oxford University; otherwise historical

(Oxford University slang) Clipping of D.Phil. student.


Michaelmas term

Michaelmas term (plural Michaelmas terms)

Michael (archangel)
Royal Courts of Justice

From Michaelmas + term; Michaelmas is from Michael (“the name of the biblical archangel”) + -mas (suffix indicating a holiday or sacred day), meaning the feast day of St Michael. Michael is derived from Late Latin Michahel, from Koine Greek Μιχαήλ (Mikhaḗl), from Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mîḵāʾēl, “who is like God?”); while -mas is from mass, from Middle English masse, from Old English mæsse (“mass (celebration of the Eucharist)”), from Vulgar Latin *messa (“Eucharist; dismissal”), from Late Latin missa, a noun use of the feminine past participle of Latin mittere, the present active infinitive of mittō (“to dispatch, send; to discharge, release; to dismiss”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to exchange”). The Christian feast day of Michaelmas, 29 September, occurs a few days before the start of this term.

der

There are four terms in the year, viz. 1. Michaelmas term, which begins on the 10th of October, and ends on the 17th of December.

1813, “University Terms, and How Many are Required to be Kept for each Degree”, in The Oxford University Calendar, for the Year 1813, Oxford: […] Munday and Slatter, for J. Parker; and F[rancis] C[harles] and J[ames] Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 65:

Archbishop King's Lecturer lectures, for the two first Terms, upon the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion, with a special reference to the objections against them, and in the third Term, upon the Socinian Controversy. The course of his Assistants is— / Michaelmas Term.—The Gospel of St. Luke, in Greek, as the basis of a harmony. […]

1838, James Thomas O’Brien, “Note F.—Page 5.”, in An Introductory Lecture Delivered in the Divinity School in Trinity College, Dublin, on the First Lecture Day of Michaelmas term, 1837, Dublin: Milliken and Son, […]; London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 71:

(Oxford, Dublin)

(Cambridge)

(education) The first academic term of the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, and other educational institutions, running from October to December; the term was modelled after the legal term, but does not begin and end on the same dates.


Easter term

Easter + term. The word Easter is from Old English ēastre, apparently from Ēastre (“the name of a goddess whose festival was celebrated at the vernal equinox”), from Proto-Germanic *Austrǭ. The Christian feast day of Easter, which falls between 22 March and 25 April, often occurs during this term.

There are four terms in the year, viz. […] 3. Easter term, which begins on the tenth day after Easter Sunday, and ends on the day before Whitsunday.

1813, “University Terms, and How Many are Required to be Kept for each Degree”, in The Oxford University Calendar, for the Year 1813, Oxford: Printed by Munday and Slatter, for J. Parker; and F[rancis] C[harles] and J[ames] Rivington, London, →OCLC, page 65:

(education) The summer term of the University of Cambridge, and other educational institutions, running from April to June; equivalent to Trinity term at the universities of Oxford and Dublin. The term was modelled after the legal term, but does not begin and end on the same dates.


Trinity term

The Christian feast day of Trinity Sunday, the first Sunday after Whitsunday or Pentecost, occurs during this term; it falls at the end of May or in early June.

There are four terms in the year, viz. […] 4. Trinity term, which begins on Wednesday after Whitsunday, and ends on the Saturday after the Act, which is always on the first Tuesday in July.

(education) The third and final academic term of the universities of Oxford and Dublin, and other educational institutions, running from April to June; equivalent to Easter term at the University of Cambridge. The term was modelled after the legal term, but does not begin and end on the same dates.


general studies

(UK, education) A school subject that assesses reading and writing skills and awareness of current affairs.


epilanguage

en-noun

epilanguage (countable and uncountable, plural epilanguages)

Gombert begins the volume by presenting evidence that in addition to explicit teaching of basic decoding skills, metalinguistic knowledge or epilanguage that children bring into reading is also important.

2003, R. Malatesha Joshi et al., Literacy Acquisition: The Role of Phonology, Morphology and Orthography, IOS Press, published 2003, page v:

2006 Che Kan Leong, "Making explicit children’s implicit epilanguage in learning to read Chinese," in P. Li, H.T. Li, E. Bates & O.J.L. Tzeng (eds.), The Handbook of East Asian psychology, pp. 70-80. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
In making explicit their implicit knowledge of epilanguage within a developmental context, children continually restructure their internal representation of language in order to integrate isolated procedures into a system (Karmiloff-Smith, 1986).

Critical expressions may therefore be statements or entrenched beliefs, or even paradigms, which belong to the epilanguage or background knowledge of sciences.

2012, Werner Leinfellner, “A New Epitheoretical Analysis of Social Theories”, in W. Leinfellner, E. Köhler, editors, Developments in the Methodology of Social Science, Springer Science & Business Media:

(linguistics, education) A more subconscious, self-imposed, form of metalanguage, determining the form in which a message will be uttered.


another place

(Oxford University slang, derogatory) University of Cambridge.

(Cambridge University slang, derogatory) University of Oxford.


waystage

Teachers are encouraged to see these common problems as fruitful errors, waystages on the route to mature understanding that they can manipulate and direct in useful ways.

1997, Gavriel Salomon, Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations:

(education) A stage on the way to successfully learning something, especially a foreign language.


microteacher

A teacher who uses the technique of microteaching.


Cutter number

(library science) An alphanumeric code used for efficiently sorting names, etc. into alphabetical order.


cantonist

Borrowed from Russian кантонист (kantonist).

(historical) A young boy in the Russian Empire who was taken to a special school to be trained for future compulsory military service.


HSAP

(initialism, education) High School Assessment Program.


think-pair-share

think-pair-share (countable and uncountable, plural think-pair-shares)

First proposed by Frank Lyman of the University of Maryland in 1981.

(education) A collaborative teaching strategy in which the teacher poses a question or a problem to the students, and the students are given sufficient time to think and gather their thoughts, after which the teacher asks them to pair themselves and share their thoughts with each other.


think-pair-sharing

(education) The act of using the think-pair-share strategy.


diamante poem

Developed by Iris Tiedt in A New Poetry Form: The Diamante (1969).

(education) A seven-line poem, used to teach writing skills to elementary school children, whose text forms the shape of a lozenge or diamond.


semestered

(education) Operating as a semester school.


semester school

semester school (plural semester schools)

(education) A school that complements a student's secondary education by providing them with the opportunity to step out of their regular school for half an academic year and take part in a more interdisciplinary and experiential curriculum.


gifted education

(education) The special practices, procedures, and theories used in the education of children who have been identified as gifted or talented.


GATE

(education, acronym) gifted and talented education


special educator

special educator (plural special educators)

special education
special education#English

(education) A teacher who specifically teaches children with special needs; a special education teacher.


passing grade

(education) The grade required to pass an exam or other assessment


S.Sc.D.

Abbreviation of Doctor of Social Science.


HBCU

[…] HBCUs. Much of the majority as minority research on the experiences of White students in the HBCU used Schwitzer, Griffin, Ancis, and Thomas' (1999) model of the social adjustment of Black students to a PWI as the framework (Closson[…]

2015 July 1, Ted N. Ingram, Derek Greenfield, Joelle D. Carter, Adriel A. Hilton, Exploring Issues of Diversity within HBCUs, IAP, →ISBN, page 189:

(US, education) Initialism of historically black college or university.


GCSD

(education) Greenville County School District.


Clemson

en-proper noun

Clemson (countable and uncountable, plural Clemsons)

From a short form of the personal name Clement + -son.


EPQ

Extended Project Qualification
w:Extended Project Qualification

(UK, education) Initialism of Extended Project Qualification.


in-school suspension

en-noun

in-school suspension (countable and uncountable, plural in-school suspensions)

If I catch you again disobeying the school dress code, you will receive an in-school suspension.

(education) A type of primary and secondary school suspension method in which, for a given period of time, the students being punished are not allowed to go to their regular classes, but are still required to attend school to instead be kept in an alternative setting that usually involves immobility and the performing of school-related activities.


titan primary school

titan primary school (plural titan primary schools)

Those are fine words, but the number of titan primary schools is soaring, with nearly five times the number of primary schools with over 800 pupils than in 2010.

2014, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 389:

(UK, education) A primary school with 800 or more pupils.


subacademic

a subacademic vocational course

(education) Not having full academic status.


out-of-school suspension

out-of-school suspension (countable and uncountable, plural out-of-school suspensions)

(education) A type of primary and secondary school disciplinary method in which, for a given period of time, the students being punished are not allowed to attend school or be on the school campus for any reason.


seat time

Due to the fact that students mostly are sitting at desks during educational courses.

(education) The amount of time a student has spent attending a particular course.


PASS

(education) Initialism of positive alternative to school suspension.


imperial examination

imperial examination (plural imperial examinations)

(historical) A civil service examination system in imperial China to select candidates for the state bureaucracy.


teaching assistant

teaching assistant (plural teaching assistants)

learning disabilities
learning disability

(education) A person who assists a teacher with instructional responsibilities, often by supporting students with learning disabilities or physical disabilities.


education assistant

education assistant (plural education assistants)


international student

international student (plural international students)

A student who studies in an institution of higher learning in a foreign country and is required to hold a student visa.


SNA

Schools will retain their existing allocation of 18,000 special needs assistants (SNAs) for mainstream classes in the coming academic year, while an extra 1,100 posts will be allocated for special classes, special schools and developing schools. […] Mr Pike said education authorities must find a different way of managing SNA allocations to provide certainty and job security.

2022 May 31, Carl O'Brien, “Number of special needs assistants in mainstream classes to be maintained”, in The Irish Times:

“From day one it was all wrong. They wouldn’t use his PECS book which had been his way to communicate. The Special Needs Assistants (SNA) were holding their hands. But that wasn’t in their assessment of need. They were fully capable of walking around themselves.” […] Gemma said it was especially difficult as the SNA had a close relationship with a member of the board.

2022 September 12, Jennifer Morgan, “An autism class opens. What happens then?”, in Irish Examiner:

(Ireland, education) Initialism of special needs assistant.


medium of instruction

medium of instruction (plural mediums of instruction)

English and Cantonese are the mediums of instruction in most Hong Kong schools at the primary and secondary level.

(education, sociolinguistics) A language used in teaching.


ekker

The dog ate my ekker.

2015 September 19, hinault, “Chirch membership discussion”, in Boards.ie, retrieved 2017-06-13:

(by extension, Ireland and Australia, school slang) Homework.


untrack

en-verb

untrack (third-person singular simple present untracks, present participle untracking, simple past and past participle untracked)

untracks (present singular third-person)
untracking (participle present)
untracked (participle past)
untracked (past)

(transitive, education) To change (an educational course) so that students are no longer ranked by ability.


low-residency

(Canada, US, education) Involving some amount of distance education and brief on-campus or on-site residencies.


MSE

en-noun

MSE (countable and uncountable, plural MSEs)

Master of Science in Engineering
w:Master of Science in Engineering

(education) Initialism of Master of Science in Engineering.


transfer student

transfer student (plural transfer students)

A student who transfers from one university / college to another after studying there for a term / semester or more


pizza farm

An educational visitor attraction in the form of a small farm on a circular piece of land partitioned into plots shaped like pizza wedges. Each plot produces one ingredient that can be used in pizza, such as wheat, tomatoes, or pork.


K through 12

We know we don't do a good job of tracking children in K through 12 into engineering.

2002, National Academy of Engineering, Committee on Diversity in the Engineering Workforce, Diversity in Engineering: Managing the Workforce of the Future:

(US, education) Kindergarten through twelfth grade.


scab duty

scab duty (countable and uncountable, plural scab duties)

(Australia, education) The act of being made to pick up litter, especially as a punishment.


floorcest

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

Coordinate term: flatcest

(university slang) Sexual involvement between students residing in the same dormitory and the same floor.


RPL

(education) Initialism of recognition of prior learning.


FLES

foreign language
foreign language#English

elementary school
elementary school#English

Initialism of foreign language in the elementary school.


Maymester

(education) A very short semester or term offered at some colleges that lasts at least a portion of the month of May, and sometimes also June.


Robbins principle

From its appearance in the 1963 Robbins Report from the Committee on Higher Education, chaired by Lord Robbins.

(UK, education) The idea that university places should be available to everybody who qualifies for them by ability and attainment.


microdegree

In addition to the aforementioned advantages of microdegrees, they can be used to provide quicker assessment of qualification within a longer degree program.

2021, Andreas Kaplan, Higher Education at the Crossroads of Disruption:

(education) A small degree (qualification in a course of study).


block graph

(mathematics, education) A simple two-dimensional bar chart that shows amounts or quantities as blocks.


LAC

(UK, education) Initialism of looked-after children.


Corpus

(Cambridge University slang) Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

(Oxford University slang) Corpus Christi College, Oxford.


bell curve god

/ˈbɛl kɜːv ˌɡɒd/

He who prays to the Bell Curve God, will be granted the luck to pass the exams!

2011 November 28, Alvin Lim, ““Bell Curve God” Surfaces In Local University”, in Alvinology Media (AM) (blog), Singapore: Alvinology Media, retrieved 2017-11-01:

Some students in a local university who are sitting for their final examinations have reportedly resorted to and set up shrines to pray to a so-called 'Bell Curve God' for help.

2011 December 1, STUMPBO, “Who is this Bell Curve God?”, in Life of Lopsided 8 (blog), Singapore: Blogger, retrieved 2017-11-01:

It seems desperate undergraduates at a local university are willing to do whatever it takes to help them in their exams - including giving offerings to the “Bell Curve God.”

2012 January 25, Ng Kang Rui, “Desperate Undergrads Pray to 'Bell Curve God'”, in Kangaroo’s Corner (blog), Singapore: Blogger.com, retrieved 2017-11-01:

Upon exploring the Singaporean bell curve on the internet, I came across this comical photo of food offerings of oreos, noodles, and other goodies given to the "Bell Curve God". The paper on the image to the right reads: CURSED is he who enters without a food offering to the Bell Curve God!

2013 April 12, Amanda, “加油! Adding Oil to the Ominous Bell Curve”, in 12 Time Zones Away (blog), Singapore: Blogger, retrieved 2017-11-01:

This website is a tribute to the famous but elusive Bell Curve God that everyone has heard of but has never seen.

2013 July 31, Orbital: Project Gemini, “Bell Curve God”, in Orbital: Project Gemini (blog), Singapore: National University of Singapore, archived from the original on 2017-09-18:

Sign up for random events, meet new people, set up a bell curve God altar, skip classes, tell your professor you dislike the country he comes from (just kidding), sleep overnight in the library, party on Wednesdays when you have a Thursday morning class etc.

2014 March 17, Joshua Goh, “10 Things Every Singaporean Should Do Before Graduating University”, in The Smart Local Singapore (blog), Singapore: The Smart Local, retrieved 2017-11-01:

Haha! altar to the almighty bell curve god in NTU! - good luck to uni students for your exams!

2014 November 25, Hana Wong, ““Bell Curve God””, in SGAG (blog), Singapore: Facebook, retrieved 2017-11-01:

Even the Bell Curve God can’t grant your wish.

2015 May 16, Kintan Andanari, “5 “stunned like vegetable” reactions by young S’poreans as SIM forces exam retake”, in Mothership Singapore (blog), Singapore: Mothership, retrieved 2017-11-01:

"As students, we are subject to the omnipotent, inscrutable force that is the Bell Curve God. He is the arbitrary being that decides our grades," Dylan Lee Soon Yoong explains.

2016 March 3, Jody-Lan Castle, “Top 10 Exam Rituals from Stressed Students across Asia”, in BBC News, Singapore: BBC News:

The Bell Curve God is characterised as capable of granting “blessings” to those who worship and pray to it. Students pray for its intervention to not have their grades classified in the lower end of the curve. They pray for “deliverance” and seek reward in the form of grades “sustenance”.

2016 October, Lily Kong, “Mimicking Religion as Coping Strategy: The Emergence of the Bell-Curve God in Singapore.”, in Material Religion, volume 12, number 4, Singapore: Taylor & Francis (Routledge), →DOI, page 533:

Do you feel lost? Dejected? Are you worried about your upcoming tests and exams? Do you require the spiritual guidance of Our Lord the Bell Curve God, in His wisdom and beauty and everlasting Grace? Then close your eyes and chant this prayer, and all your troubles will be answered by Our Lord the Bell Curve God and washed away: Our Father, who art in heaven. Hallowed be Thy bell curve. Thy midyears come. Thy will be done in O’s as it is in A’s. Give us this day our daily A. And forgive us our subpasses. As we forgive those who give poor peer grading marks to us. Lead us not into them F9s, but deliver us our A1s, GPA 4.0. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

2017 May 15, “Singapore’s Very Own Bell Curve Prayer”, in Reddit Singapore (Usenet), retrieved 2017-11-01, message-ID <doctorwhybother98>:

In the end, the bell curve is not something within your control. However, with appropriate studying habits, you can secure a favourable position on the bell curve for yourself. Most importantly, stick to your study plan; put in consistent effort; and do your utmost. There is no replacement for hard work and practice, not even praying to the ‘bell curve gods’. So long as you put your best foot forward, the curve's always beatable, your desired results reachable.

2017 July 21, Geraldine Lee, “What Exactly is the Bell Curve? And How to Beat It.”, in Yodaa, Singapore: Yodaa.co, retrieved 2017-11-01:

And what of the nightmare that’s known as the exam period? When students are huddling by their textbooks and praying fervently to the bell curve god?

2017 September 15, Joey Lee, “Foodpanda Study Reveals Boom in University Food Delivery – Here’s What Students Love to Order”, in Business Insider, Singapore: Business Insider Singapore:

(Singapore, humorous) A notional deity having power over the bell curve grading system in which grades are adjusted to fit a normal distribution.


backpack funding

In reference to the backpacks in which students carry their belongings to school.

(US, education) A form of education funding where money is allocated to individual students and not to school districts.


lockdown browser

lockdown browser (plural lockdown browsers)

(education) A software package, essentially a restricted web browser, that prevents users from navigating away from a particular online task, commonly used when holding tests, quizzes, etc.


EYFS

(UK, education) Initialism of Early Years Foundation Stage.


IEP

IEP child

Individualized Education Program
w:Individualized Education Program

(US, education) Initialism of Individualized Education Program.


APUSH

(US, education) Acronym of Advanced Placement United States History.


schoolable

Of an age at which children go to school.


BTFO

I only knew it had something to do with plans for a diversity panel during BTFO.

2017, Melinda Worth Popham, Grace Period: My Ordination to the Ordinary, →ISBN:

(US, education) Initialism of Before the Fall Orientation.


SOSE

(education) Initialism of Studies of society and environment.


school district

school district (plural school districts)

(Canada, US) An administrative unit responsible for public primary and secondary schools in a particular locality; the area under the jurisdiction of such an administrative unit.

skoledistrikt

governmental district for public schools


WHAP

Advanced Placement World History
w:AP World History

(US, education) Initialism of Advanced Placement World History.


SAO

SAO (countable and uncountable, plural SAOs)

(education) Initialism of school attendance order.


SSDL

1994, Grow: In defense of the staged self-directed learning model;;:

Staged Self-Directed Learning
Staged Self-Directed Learning#English

(education) Initialism of Staged Self-Directed Learning.


spelling word

(US, education, set phrase) A word, especially among several others, for which the spelling is supposed to be memorized and practiced before an upcoming quiz or test in which all of such words are covered.


teacher workday

teacher workday (plural teacher workdays)

(education, US) A day when students do not attend school, but when teachers still come to school to work.


breakfast club

(UK, education) A facility to provide children with a morning meal at school, before classes.


examination paper

examination paper (plural examination papers)


key stage

(UK, Ireland, education) Any of the sequential stages of attainment in the state education system of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar, specifying the knowledge expected of students at various ages.


e-educator

An educator who makes use of computer technology.


language school

language school (plural language schools)

A school where foreign languages are taught


band camp

(education, music) An intensive program organised for primary, secondary or tertiary students of instrumental music, typically lasting a number of weeks and integrating rehearsals with social activities.


acada

Saying these much in Nigeria's present political climate, and coming from someone who has been out of the country for a considerable length of time, provides an opportunity for cheap baseless attacks and accusations of an “acada' trying to compare Nigeria to more advanced countries.

2009, Angelicus-M. B. Onasanya, The Urgency of Now!: Building a True Nigerian Nation, page 153:

(Nigeria, slang) A current or former university student.


acada

He had asked, 'So do the literate acada people also do that?'

1987, Kowus Bisi-Williams, The Black Godfather, page 32:

(Nigeria, slang) Relating to a university or academic studies; educated.


weeder class

While the benefits of weeder classes may be dubious in the short run, they definitely pay dividends in the long run. They spur necessary competition among students, which prepares them for the rigors of upper division classes and their careers.

2015 November 18, Aurash Jalalian, “Weeder Courses Are Par For the Course”, in The Bottom Line:

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:

(US, education, colloquial) An introductory university course that is designed to "weed out" those students who are not able to pass it.


weeder course

Occasionally, people who oppose weeder courses contend that they disincentivize learning and force students to study just for the sake of achieving “the grade.” In some ways, the opposition is right on the money.

Practically, it can be seen clearly that weeder courses are not equalizers. In fact, they exacerbate inequality and continue to push wealthy and privileged students to the top while putting down minority and low-income students.


business school

business school (plural business schools)

A higher education institution that specializes in business studies


FERPA

w:Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act

Initialism of Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.


Old Gray Lady

(informal) Legion Field, an outdoor stadium in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.


NQF

National Qualifications Framework
w:National Qualifications Framework

(education) Initialism of National Qualifications Framework.


entrance exam

entrance examination
entrance examination


dweebness

(US, dated, originally university slang, now general slang, derogatory) The quality of being dweeby.


dweebily

en-adv

dweebily (comparative more dweebily, superlative most dweebily)

more dweebily (comparative)
most dweebily (superlative)

But in fact she and her friend Bleeker, in his dweebily short running shorts, confound their peers' social categories altogether—and adults' preconceptions, too.

2011, Rise B. Axelrod, Charles R. Cooper, Axelrod & Cooper's Concise Guide to Writing:

(US, originally university slang, now general slang, derogatory) In a dweeby manner.


CEFRL

w:Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

(education) Initialism of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.


BYU

Brigham Young University
w:Brigham Young University


TOEIC

w:Test of English for International Communication

(education) Initialism of Test of English for International Communication.


whip-arse

From whip + arse. Possibly a calque of French fouette-cul, from fouetter (“to whip”) + cul (“arse”).

Feſſe-cul. A Pedanticall whip-arſe.

1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, page FES-FES:


adult learner

(education) A student over the age of 25 who is enrolled at an institute of higher learning.

(literal translation; no exact concept exists) 成年學習者 /成年学习者 (chéngnián xuéxízhě)


mature-age student

en-noun

mature-age student (plural mature-age students)


TPR

TPR (countable and uncountable, plural TPRs)

total physical response
total physical response#English

(education) Initialism of total physical response.


predentistry

An undergraduate academic program in dentistry.


consequential mark

consequential mark (plural consequential marks)

I wrote 5 instead of 6 on the second line of my working, so my answer came out as –4 instead of 30, but thanks to consequential marks I still got 4 marks out of 6.

Does the scheme allow 'consequential' marks when an early mistake affects later parts of an answer?

1989, Phil Race, The open learning handbook, page 87:

You can still pick up 'method' and 'consequential' marks if you make mistakes early in the question.

2006, Mike Cody, VCE Mathematical Methods, →ISBN, page 93:

This is an example of a question in which consequential marks were available even if an earlier part of the calculation was incorrect.

2008, Andrew Hume, Chemistry VCE 3 & 4, →ISBN, page 7:

(education) A mark awarded to a student when assessing their work, on the basis that they followed the correct method despite arriving at an incorrect result or conclusion due to an earlier error in the work.


nonconserver

(education, psychology) A person who has not yet learned that certain properties of objects, such as the volume of a liquid or the number of items in a set, are conserved during physical transformations.


conflict training

(education, psychology) A Piagetian form of cognitive training in which a person who does not yet understand a concept and others who do understand it are encouraged to discuss it as a group and formulate a consensus.


Ofqual

(UK, education) Initialism of Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation.


authority control

(library science) The organization of bibliographic information by using a single distinct spelling of a name (heading) or a numeric identifier for each topic or agent.


reading list

(education) A list of books, passages, and/or articles that are required or recommended reading as part of a course of study, project, etc.


tertiary student

tertiary student (plural tertiary students)


primary school student

primary school student (plural primary school students)


Beida

Borrowed from 北大 (Běidà), a shortening of 北京大學／北京大学 (Běijīng Dàxué).

zh-m

北京大學／北京大学 (Běijīng Dàxué)

They reminisced over their move to the UK as idealistic Beida graduates, back in the 80s.

2023 October 23, Tian Yi, “The Good Son”, in The Guardian:

(uncommon) Synonym of Peking University.


THU

Tsinghua University
w:Tsinghua University


KAIST

w:Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Initialism of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.


proctorise

en-verb

proctorise (third-person singular simple present proctorises, present participle proctorising, simple past and past participle proctorised)

proctorises (present singular third-person)
proctorising (participle present)
proctorised (participle past)
proctorised (past)

From that moment one of two courses remained open to him,—marriage, the loss of his fellowship, with probably children, and nothing to eat; or patience, the common-room cheer, holy orders, and a living in his turn. He chose the latter, jilted the young girl who had fallen for him, for one of those thousand reasons, which induce girls to throw themselves away on men who possess everything in them that is least likely to attract them in particular, and applied himself to good eating, fiery port wine, proctorising young gentlemen, and other intellectual accomplishments, which are supposed by some to perfect the university fellow for the duties of a parish priest.

1857, Ernest Richard Seymour, The Curate of Holycross, page 4:

"I was sure to find some of you. Besides, I'll admit one don't like to go in while there's any chance of a real row as you call it, and so gets proctorized in one's old age for one's patriotism."

1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1883, pages 129–130:

A man who never acted wrong— / No mischief ever did; / I met him walking by himself— / In vain his pipe he hid: / Said I, I'll proctorise this man, / And fine him half-a-quid.

1866 May 5, “The Dream of the Junior Proctor”, in The Harlequin, number 3, verse 12, page 4:

(transitive, UK, university slang, archaic) To summon (a person) before the proctor of a university.


metaliterate

en-adj

metaliterate (comparative more metaliterate, superlative most metaliterate)

more metaliterate (comparative)
most metaliterate (superlative)

information technology
information technology

(education) Both e-literate (competent with information technology) and able to discern between, and critically evaluate, information obtained from various digital sources.


GSI

(US, education) Initialism of graduate student instructor.


student teacher

en-noun

student teacher (plural student teachers)

A teacher-in-training who is teaching classes under the supervision of a teacher or trainer.


parlour boarder

parlour boarder (plural parlour boarders)

(historical) A pupil at a boarding school who enjoys particular privileges.


pass/no pass

(education, attributive) A type of grading system where a student either passes or fails a class, and no specific grade (such as A, B or C) is given.


disciplinism

(education, historical) An educational approach aiming to foster effective thought and action.


disciplinist

Or, to put the three views concretely, the formal disciplinist would say that training the reasoning power by mathematics would make one a better lawyer or medical diagnostician; the non-transferrist would say that training in geometry helped geometry but had nothing to do with, say, trigonometry, except in so far as you used identical factors in both; and the inductionist would grant a slight transfer from one form of mathematics to a similar form, regardless of a common element, while denying any appreciable spread to legal reasoning or medical diagnosis.

1918, California Teachers Association, CTA Journal - Volume 14, page 392:

The function of education to a formal disciplinist is to train the faculties.

1956, George Willard Frasier, An introduction to the study of education, page 135:

But, since the distinction is not obvious at first glance and also since both before and after Locke the word "faculty" was also used the other way, it seemingly was quite easy to make of Locke a formal disciplinist.

1966, Ernest Edward Bayles, Bruce Lamont Hood, Growth of American Educational Thought and Practice, page 62:

The aim of a liberal/perennial education is to discipline or exercise the mind (a mental disciplinist approach) through the study of absolutes, often articulated in the form of principles.

1998, Bruce Spencer, Sue M. Scott, Alan M. Thomas, Learning for Life: Canadian Readings in Adult Education, page 100:

(education, historical) A proponent of disciplinism.


eight-legged essay

imperial examination
imperial examination

(education, historical) A portion of the Chinese imperial examination that consisted of writing an essay consisting of eight parts.


permission slip

permission slip (plural permission slips)

Julie DeLongpre: Um, can someone please just sign my permission slip?
Richard DeLongpre: Julie, there she is! What did you do today?
Julie: Well, let's see I went to school, I got a permission slip, I asked you to sign it, …

2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)

(US, education) A paper form that a school sends home with a student to a parent, onto which the parent provides authorization for the student to attend a certain event, such as a field trip.


Maths B

(Australia, Queensland) abbreviation of Mathematics B.


self-cultivation

The practice of effecting gradual yet substantial improvements of oneself, especially through education.


The Ville

Clipping of Somerville. Compare The House for Christ Church and The Hall for St Edmund Hall.

(UK, rare, Oxbridge slang) Somerville College, Oxford.

Christ Church, Oxford
St Edmund Hall, Oxford


perennialism

Educational perennialism
Perennial philosophy

(education) A normative educational philosophy according to which one should teach the things that are of everlasting relevance to all people everywhere, and that the emphasis should be on principles, not facts.


voluntary aided school

voluntary aided school (plural voluntary aided schools)

(UK, education) A state-funded school in which a (usually religious) foundation or trust contributes to building costs and has a substantial influence in running the school.


voluntary controlled school

voluntary controlled school (plural voluntary controlled schools)

voluntary aided school
voluntary aided school

(UK, education) A state-funded school in which a (usually religious) foundation or trust has some formal influence in running the school, but less than for a voluntary aided school.


elementary algebra

After 1820 we find elementary algebra commencing to be a required subject for admission. Columbia required it in 1821, Yale in 1847, and Princeton in 1848.

1920, Inez Dale Powelson, The History of the Teaching of Elementary Algebra, University of California, Berkeley, page 28:

1939, Regina Grosswege, Learning Activities in Elementary Algebra, College Entrance Book Company, unnumbered page,
A perusal of the following outstanding features of this workbook will show how this book has been designed to enable the student to master elementary algebra in a thoroughly efficient and interesting manner.

2006, Richard N. Aufmann, Vernon C. Barker, Joanne S. Lockwood, Essentials of Elementary Algebra, Houghton Mifflin:

(mathematics, education) An informally defined area of algebra considered suitable to be taught to secondary school students.

beginning algebra

algebra deemed suitable for secondary students


gentleman-commoner

Unfortunately for the college, there were a very large proportion of the gentleman-commoners.

1859, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, published 1888, page 10:

(UK, education, historical) At the University of Oxford, a student paying higher fees and ranking above commoners, but below noblemen.


needs-blind

(education) Of an educational institution: accepting pupils based on academic ability etc., rather than their ability to afford the fees.


UPMC

Initialism of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.


pollman

Blend of poll (“ordinary university degree”) + man. First part from Ancient Greek πολλοί (polloí, “the many, the masses”). Second part from Middle English man, from Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”).

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Even the wretched pollmen cannot be expected to unravel the quirks and catches in their elementary papers with any degree of credit, unless they have been privately trained for the purpose.

1860 July 1, “IX. Cambridge University Reform”, in The British Quarterly Review, volume 32, page 227:

Nevertheless, it is tolerably clear, from various parts of their Report, that while they believe the best Harrow or Rugby boy to be equal to the picked scholars of their own schools, they are persuaded that the average Harrow or Rugby boy—one, for example, who goes from the fifth form to be a pollman at Cambridge or an officer in the army—knows less, and has received less intellectual training and intellectual stimulus, than a French boy of the same age.

1869 January 16, “A French View of English Schools”, in The Saturday Review, volume 27, number 690, page 92:

It is related of some Cambridge poll-man that he was once so ill-advised as to desert a private tutor.

(UK, historical, Cambridge University slang) One who takes an ordinary university degree, without honours.


middle college

First applied to a program in New York City in 1974.

Following the traditional middle college high school model, students combine high school and college work but also have the opportunity to begin advanced work in technical and occupational education.

2015, James R. Stone III, Morgan V. Lewis, College and Career Ready in the 21st Century: Making High School Matter, page 137:

(education) An alternative secondary education program that blends aspects of high school and community college.


yeargroup

Social units intermediate in size between the individual and the whole school are discussed. These units are the year-groups, seen as developing collective perspectives which follow from the interaction between students' initial perspectives and their shared experiences, and the fraternities which were seen to structure daily social interaction.

1992, Charles C. Ragin, Howard Saul Becker, What Is a Case?: Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry:

Some yeargroups broke down into cliques, usually dividing between the two primary training groups: hand-to-hand combat versus the marksmen.

2016, J. Kathleen Cheney, Dreaming Death, page 255:

(education) The body of students corresponding to a particular grade level or year of study.


cap and gown

An academic robe and cap with mortarboard.


International Baccalaureate

(education) A rigorous educational program for high school students, focused on developing critical thinking, collaboration, and reflection skills.