private school

1953, Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia, Issue 39, page 218,
The Roman Catholic schools comprise the largest group of private schools in Australia. On the basis of the figures available, approximately 222,000 children, or 76 per cent. of the total in private schools, are educated in Roman Catholic schools.

If there were no public funding of private schools the level of enrolment would be very low. Demand for private schooling can only become effective demand if private school places are available at the right price.

1985, Simon Marginson, Education and Public Policy in Australia, page 202:

Private schools and educational success Australia has long had three substantially separate streams of secondary education: government schools, Catholic schools, and a diverse collection of private schools not affiliated with the Catholic Church. Of the non-Catholic private schools, about two thirds are associated with Protestant churches - although only a minority have a strong religious character - and another third are non-denominational.

2002, M. D. R. Evans, Jonathan Kelley, Australian Economy and Society, 2001: Education, Work, and Welfare, page 67:

A fee-charging private or independent school.


junior high school

en-noun

junior high school (countable and uncountable, plural junior high schools)

intermediate high school

school between elementary and high school

In California the term originally used was "intermediate high school," later shortened to "intermediate school," but the term "junior high school" is rapidly supplanting the others.

1919, Guy Vernon Bennett, The Junior High School, Warwick & York, page 1:

(US) A school for children who have completed elementary school or grade school, but are not yet old enough for high school. It often includes grades 7 and 8, and possibly also 6 or 9.

初級中學 /初级中学

school for children that have completed elementary school

(Philippines) A secondary education school for grades 7 to 10 (a continuation of elementary school). It is succeeded by senior high school.


reclassification

reclassification (countable and uncountable, plural reclassifications)

(education) The assignment of a high-school student to a different graduation class (either a year earlier or later than their original), often to allow a potential athlete either to develop further or to start playing professionally earlier.


special education

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

learning difficulties
learning difficulty

Any of several educational services designed for students with learning difficulties, mental health problems, or other disabilities.


pupillary

Borrowed from Latin pūpillāris, as if the form were *pūpillārius.


not yet

If you also have students count problems incorrect, calling them “not yets,” or “learning opportunities,” or […]

2013, Julie Vargas, Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching:

(education) A skill that one is learning but has not yet acquired.


copy number

In other words, there was no way to correlate a book's barcode number, by which it was filed in the computer, to its copy number on the shelf list.

1987, Terry D. Webb, The In-House Option: Professional Issues of Library Automation, →ISBN, pages 65–66:

(library science) The identification number assigned to a specific copy of a work.


Hoya

Derived from the mixed Greek and Latin chant "Hoya Saxa" (meaning "What Rocks"), which gained popularity at the school in the late nineteenth century. The name Hoyas came into use in the 1920s.

Today, the Hoyas’ senior point guard and former first-team All-Met is pursuing a more audacious goal: to take Georgetown deep in the NCAA tournament and add to the Final Four banners on display in McDonough Arena.

2013 December 20, Liz Clarke, “Georgetown point guard Markel Starks sticks to his plans as Hoyas take on No. 18 Kansas”, in The Washington Post:

A member of the Georgetown Hoyas, the official athletics teams of Georgetown University in the United States.

This traveling bear doesn’t belong to a circus — Chunky the Georgetown Panda is a stuffed panda that has been shipped across the country to Hoyas old and new.

2020 September 10, Michelle Brown, “Traveling Stuffed Panda ‘Chunky’ Visits Hoyas at Their Homes”, in The Hoya:

A current or former student of Georgetown University.


NJQSAC

(US, education) Initialism of New Jersey Quality Single Accountability Continuum.


MRP

MRP (countable and uncountable, plural MRPs)

(education) Initialism of Master in Regional Planning.


resection

en-verb

resection (third-person singular simple present resections, present participle resectioning, simple past and past participle resectioned)

resections (present singular third-person)
resectioning (participle present)
resectioned (participle past)
resectioned (past)

In connection with a scheme of resectioning, a number of questions naturally present themselves. When the students complete their first term or first year of the subject in the most efficient, intermediate, and least efficient sections, what process of equalization is going to occur at the beginning of the second term or year?

1925, Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew, Educational Review - Volume 69, page 153:

This is easily understandable when, with resectioning, a cadet is offered the opportunity to underperform with the only punishment being an easier class!

1973, K. Bruce Galloway, Robert Bowie Johnson, West Point; America's power fraternity, page 71:

Tully's class was initially assigned to sections alphabetically and then resectioned later in the year according to academic merit.

2015, Brian R. McEnany, For Brotherhood and Duty, →ISBN, page 37:

(education) To transfer students into new class groupings or grade levels.


noncredit

(education) Describing a course that does not contribute credits towards an academic degree.


LLM

(education, law) Alternative form of LL.M. (“Master of Laws”)


parallel immersion

A style of education in which students are taught simultaneously in two languages: a "primary" language which is dominant in the given country (in which the immersion is taking place), plus a "secondary" language which is the student's native language.


Death Valley

Commonly connected to the Death Valley '49ers, a group of prospectors on the way to Gold Country, see quotations.

A nickname for Tiger Stadium, a football stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.


(education, psychology) Abbreviation of twice-exceptional.


coursework

Work carried out by students of a particular course; it is assessed and counts towards the grade given.

курсова работа

work carried out by students of a particular course


instructional design

1983, Reigeluth,http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=qt_9Q4K5Bz8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=instructional+design&ots=83ufQ_l9Gd&sig=58ViHGTy6N-Z6gztRt40Oi02Vys [BOOK] Instructional-design Theories and Models: An Overview of Their Current Status - CM Reigeluth - 1983 - books.google.com ... for Reading This Book xlll Foreword xv David R, Krathwohl UNIT I INSTRUCTION: WHAT THE DISCIPLINE IS LIKE 1. Instructional Design: What Is It and Why Is It? ...

(education) The discipline of creating educational materials, often with the implication of alternative media.


school uniform

en-noun

school uniform (countable and uncountable, plural school uniforms)

School uniforms for boys may include a school tie, jacket, cap and a pair of formal trousers.

A number of uniform items which must be worn by pupils/students in a school.

skooluniform

uniform items to be worn by students in a school


DT

DT (countable and uncountable, plural DTs)

design and technology
design and technology#English

(education) Initialism of design and technology.


night school

night school (countable and uncountable, plural night schools)

continuing education
continuing education

A school, typically used for the purpose of continuing education with classes held predominantly in the evening to accommodate students with typical day shift work schedules.

ညကျောင်း

school with classes held predominantly in the evening


Juris Doctor

From Latin iūris, jūris, genitive singular of iūs, jūs (“law”), and doctor (“teacher”).

A professional doctorate in law, and in some countries, a first professional graduate degree.


come down

en-verb

come down (third-person singular simple present comes down, present participle coming down, simple past came down, past participle come down)

comes down (present singular third-person)
coming down (participle present)
came down (past)
come down (participle past)

Raju had got a job with a law firm in Singapore after coming down from Oxford.

2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 24:

(intransitive, UK) To graduate from university, especially an Oxbridge university.


SPM

en-noun

SPM (countable and uncountable, plural SPMs)

(education, Malaysia, uncountable) Initialism of Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia. (Malaysian Certificate of Education, certificate for secondary school students in Malaysia)


bell ringer

Inherited from Middle English belringer, belle ringer, bellryngar, belryngere, equivalent to bell + ringer.

(education) An assignment, done regularly at the beginning of a class, and intended as a warm-up before other classroom activities.

In Health Sciences, Dr. Ball was always available to us in the anatomy lab giving us tips and tricks for bell ringers. You can tell he genuinely cares about teaching, because why else would he wear a uterus costume!

2018 May 24, “Meet today's Faculty of Health Sciences valedictorian”, in McMaster Daily News, archived from the original on 2023-04-03:

(anatomy, education) A type of anatomy exam in which students must answer questions at a series of stations and move on to the next station when a bell is rung.


TSA

Territory-wide System Assessment
w:Territory-wide System Assessment

(Hong Kong, education) Initialism of Territory-wide System Assessment.


lesson plan

You've written thousands of lesson plans. You've taught the same subjects over and over. Why doesn't your principal just exempt you from having to write lesson plans? You could teach your lessons with your eyes closed, couldn't you?

2015, Annette Breaux, Todd Whitaker, Quick Answers for Busy Teachers: Solutions to 60 Common Challenges:

(education) A teacher's document used to plan a lesson.


language lab

(education) A dedicated space for the learning of a foreign language where students have access to audiovisual materials.


FCE

First Certificate in English
w:First Certificate in English

Initialism of First Certificate in English, an ESOL qualification awarded by Cambridge University


ESOL

(education) Acronym of English for speakers of other languages.


CELTA

w:Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults

(education) Acronym of Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults, a qualification to teach English.


microbio

(university slang) Abbreviation of microbiology.


psychopedagogy

(psychology) The psychology of education


academic institution

academic institution (plural academic institutions)

The second question raised is what conditions influence the abilities of incoming freshmen, as reflected in their Scholastic Aptitude Tests, given by the College Entrance Examination Board and available for most though not all academic institutions.

1994, Peter Michael Blau, The Organization of Academic Work, →ISBN, page 131:

Of the teaching assistants, black female graduate students comprised 80 percent in 1995. It should be borne in mind, however, that these figures do not pertain to all academic institutions for the obvious reason that not all academic institutions have women's studies programs nor African American studies programs.

1997, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Renée T. White, Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, and Revolutions, →ISBN, page 22:

The primary burden of recruiting, hiring, evaluating, promoting, and terminating faculty rests with department heads in virtually all academic institutions, although their decisions are generally made in consultation with others ...

1997, Marianne A. Ferber, Jane W. Loeb, Academic Couples: Problems and Promises, →ISBN, page 248:

It is critical for all academic institutions to embrace this change in the work culture to maintain the best faculty at our medical schools.

2011, William F. Rayburn, Jay Schulkin, Changing Landscape of Academic Women's Health Care in the United States, →ISBN:

This guide is designed to assist academic institutions in developing, strengthening, and improving the search process for high-level appointments and key faculty positions - including but not limited to Presidents, Chancellors, CEOs, ...

2014, Steven A. Wartman, Searching for Leadership: Best Practices for Academic Institutions, →ISBN:

An educational institution, dedicated to higher education and research, that grants academic degrees.

學術機構 /学术机构

institution dedicated to higher education


learning disability

learning disability (plural learning disabilities)

A disability which prevents the sufferer from learning in a typical manner.


CW

CW (countable and uncountable, plural CWs)


supe

(Cambridge University slang) Clipping of supervision.


BMOC

big man on campus
big man on campus#English

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


asm

(chiefly Hong Kong, chiefly university slang, text messaging) Pseudo-acronym of assignment.


testamur

1868, Mark Pattison, Suggestions on Academical Organisation, Esmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh, page 249,
Are the students, as part of the qualification for the degree, to be required to attend given courses of lectures, and to produce a testamur of attendance from the instructor, along with a testamur of proficiency from the examiner ?

It has already been mentioned that we are prepared to recommend the issue of a Secondary School Testamur to pupils who have to leave school before they are able to take the Secondary School Certificate[…].

1911, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, Reports, volume 16, page 150:

1961, US Department of Commerce, Report of the 46th National Conference on Weights and Measures, page 57,
Since then, 116 holders of the Institute′s Testamur have availed themselves of the exemption and 90 have subsequently secured the Board of Trade Certificate.

The names of successful candidates will be announced at the Annual General Meeting of the Society and published in Microbiology Australia. Each will be issued a testamur of fellowship bearing the Seal of the Society.

2000 May, Microbiology Australia, page 35:

Andrea was a bit disappointed that she wasn′t the first graduand to go up and get here^([sic]) testamur.

2008, James McNaught, Sinking Sand, Lulu, page 227:

A certificate of successful completion of an examination.


FTFY

(education) Initialism of first-time first-year (often referring to offerings for entering freshmen)


PSU

(initialism) Pennsylvania State University.

Pangasinan State University
w:Pangasinan State University

(Philippines) Initialism of Pangasinan State University.


cheder

cheder (plural cheders or chederim or chedarim or chadarim or chadorim)

cheders (plural)
chederim (plural)
chedarim (plural)
chadarim (plural)
chadorim (plural)

From Yiddish חדר (kheyder), from Hebrew חדר (khéder, “room”).

A businessman in New York who happened to be in the Midlands at the time was so impressed by Asher's methods that he was funding him to set up a string of chederim – Sunday schools for Jews – all over the United States.

2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage, published 2007, page 51:

(education, Judaism) An elementary school for Jewish children, teaching basic Judaism and Hebrew.


three Rs

From the initial consonant in the pronunciation of reading, (w)riting, (a)rithmetic (aphetically), 1820s.

“You shall teach me, and when I am a woman we will set up a school where nothing but the three R's shall be taught, and all the children live on oatmeal, and the girls have waists a yard round,” said Rose, with a sudden saucy smile dimpling her cheeks.

1875, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 8, in Eight Cousins:

From these studies the schoolmaster would sally forth into his school-rooms, and instruct his boys in the religion, the fanaticism of Hugolatry. He taught them nothing else. Hugo was for him the three R’s, catechism and grammar, deportment and the use of the globe.

1885 July, “A Forgotten Pamphleteer”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine, volume 37, London: Tinsley Brothers, page 84:

Elementary schools have already done a noble work, but among many of them the demand has now arisen for something more than the three R’s and simple Bible-teaching.

1908, Charles W. Hattersley, Uganda by Pen and Camera, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States: Union Press, pages vii–viii:

The basic education received in primary schools, especially (but not necessarily limited to) reading, writing and arithmetic.


vice-chancellor

(education) An official holding a rank immediately below that of chancellor.

(education, often) The chief executive of a university, college or similar facility where the chancellor is a largely ceremonial role.


FLE

From French FLE (“FLÉ”) (français langue étrangère).

(linguistics education, initialism) French as a foreign language; French language for foreign language education


comp sci

computer science
computer science#English

(university slang) Clipping of computer science.


library science

library science (countable and uncountable, plural library sciences)

An interdisciplinary science incorporating the humanities, law and applied science to study topics related to libraries, the collection, organization, preservation and dissemination of information resources, and the political economy of information.


syndetic

asyndetic

antonym(s) of “grammar & library science”

From Latin syndeticus, from Ancient Greek συνδετικός (sundetikós), from σύνδετον (súndeton, “syndeton, use of conjunctions, a binding”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”), the neuter substantive of σῠ́νδετος (sŭ́ndetos, “bound, joined”), from συνδεῖν (sundeîn, “to join, to bind”), from σῠν- (sŭn-, “together”) + δεῖν (deîn, “to bind, to tie”). Equivalent to syndeton + -ic.

Syndetic, applied to an alphabetical subject catalogue or dictionary catalogue which includes cross-references as connecting links between subjects.

1958, Thomas Landau, Encyclopaedia of Librarianship, page 299:

The dictionary includes syndetic references.

(library science) Synonym of crossreferenced.


bedder

(Cambridge University slang) Contraction of bedmaker; a housekeeper or domestic cleaner (historically a domestic servant), generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Cambridge University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern scout at Oxford University.


bibliographic database

bibliographic database (plural bibliographic databases)

(library science) An electronic index to journal or magazine articles, containing citations, abstracts and often either the full text of the articles, or links to the full text.

bibliografická databáze

(library science) A database containing information about books and other materials held in a library, such as an online library catalog, or OPAC.


OPAC

online public access catalog
online public access catalog#English

(library science) Acronym of online public access catalog.


online public access catalog

online public access catalog (plural online public access catalogs)

(library science) A computerized online publicly accessible catalog of the materials held in a library, or library system.


backwash

backwash (countable and uncountable, plural backwashes)


grade inflation

Grade inflation refers to an increase in grade point average without a concomitant increase in achievement.

1981, I. Bejar, E. Blew, “Grade Inflation and the Validity of the Scholastic Aptitude Test”, in American Educational Research Journal, volume 18, number 2, page 143:

(education) A gradual upward trend in grades awarded to students during the decades since the mid-20th century, reported in a number of countries and at a number of levels of schooling and sometimes offered as evidence of a decline in academic standards.


vocabulary word

vocabulary word (plural vocabulary words)

The teacher then held up a real food item of each vocabulary word and asked the students to repeat each word in Spanish.

2010 June, Stella Erbes et al., "Understanding How Cognitive Psychology Can Inform and Improve Spanish Vocabulary Acquisition in High School Classrooms." Journal of Instructional Psychology v.37 n.2 pp.120–132

In my 1st grade classroom, I use our read-alouds to introduce our weekly vocabulary words. Before reading, I pre-select five to seven words from the text that students really need to fully comprehend the text.

2019 July 10, Brittany Oakley, “Teaching Vocabulary Takes More Than Just Talking About Words During Read-Aloud”, in Education Week:

2020 July 15, "33 Middle School Vocabulary Words Adults Still Get Wrong" Reader's Digest

(education, US) A word which a student is expected to learn; a word included in a test of one's general vocabulary or of subject-specific terminology


prog

prog (countable and uncountable, plural progs)

(UK, university slang, dated) A proctor.


PGCE

(British, education) Initialism of Postgraduate Certificate in Education.


FBS

FBS (countable and uncountable, plural FBSs)

An FBS (fasting blood sugar) measurement is the most convenient test after overnight fasting. […] You have diabetes if your FBS is 126 mg/dl or more. But confirm it once more the next day or any other day. If the next time also FBS is more than 126 mg/dl then definitely you have diabetes.

2008, Manthappa M., How to Manage Your Diabetes and Lead a Normal Life, New Delhi: Peacock Books, →ISBN, page 10:

(medicine) Initialism of fasting blood sugar.


FBS

w:NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision

(American football) Initialism of Football Bowl Subdivision.


LEA

local education authority
w:local education authority

(England and Wales, education, historical) Initialism of local education authority.


juku

A private Japanese school offering lessons outside of regular school time.


Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


walk the line

en-verb

walk the line (third-person singular simple present walks the line, present participle walking the line, simple past and past participle walked the line)

walks the line (present singular third-person)
walking the line (participle present)
walked the line (participle past)
walked the line (past)

A Baldwin High School student will be able to wear slacks to her graduation ceremony, under an order from the Maui School District. . . . "I'm very glad she'll be able to walk the line with her graduating class," Rosaga said.

2002 May 7, Gary Kubota, “Maui girl wins right to forget the dress”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin, archived from the original on 2006-04-09:

Montano's family, including her parents, sons and fiance, Thomas Gallegos, planned to be on hand to see her walk the line and be honored by the UNM-VC Advisory Board, faculty and staff and her fellow associate degree graduates.

13 May 2006, “Graduation 2006: Valedictorian seeks better life for her family”, in Valencia County News-Bulletin.com, archived from the original on 2007-08-16:

(idiomatic, US, education) To participate in the procession at a graduation ceremony; to graduate.


M.D.

(law) Middle District, used in case citations to identify courts, particularly United States Federal courts designated to cover the central part of a multi-district state.


OWTTE

For one mark, candidates should state that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light (OWTTE).

or words to that effect
or words to that effect#English

(education) Initialism of or words to that effect, used in academic rubrics.


ATKT

(education) Initialism of allowed to keep term.


blue book exam

From the color of the book cover, chosen by Butler University in Indianapolis to match its school colors.

postsecondary school
postsecondary school

(US, education) A type of test that normally includes one or more essays or short-answer questions, used at many postsecondary schools.


past paper

Use the past papers to practise when revising.

(education) An examination paper from a previous year.


coursebook

A textbook, a book designed to accompany a specific academic course, or one specified by the writers of the course to be read by its students.


school age

en-noun

school age (countable and uncountable, plural school ages)

(education) An age at which a child is required to attend school.


SRS

SRS (countable and uncountable, plural SRSes)

(education, software) Initialism of spaced repetition software.


senpai

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

Borrowed from Japanese 先(せん)輩(ぱい) (senpai). Doublet of sunbae.

(anime and manga, fandom slang) An upperclassman or elder student, in the context of Japan.


whole language

(education) A method of teaching literacy that emphasises the recognition of words in an everyday context; often contrasted with phonics.


West Point

(metonymically) USMA (“United States Military Academy”) (U.S. Army service academy), in West Point, NY.


business administration

(business, education) A course of study in higher education intended to prepare the students for a career in business.


home school

I do not know of any home school for girls, East or West, which has a more thoroughly up-to-date equipment for heating its buildings[…].

1904, William Parker McKee, “Dean's Letter”, in Frances Shimer Quarterly, page 30:


graduate school

graduate school (plural graduate schools)

A school that awards advanced degrees, such as doctoral degrees; a postgraduate school.


S.D.

Doctor of Science
Doctor of Science#English

(education) Initialism of Doctor of Science.


wordpool

Give the example first and make it clear that learners can use the same word from the wordpool in different sentences and can use the same word twice...

1998, Ruth Gairns, Stuart Redman, True to life: English for adult learners:

A wordpool can contain big or small words, foreign words, misspelled words, anything your heart desires.

2008, Brigid Lowry, Juicy Writing, →ISBN, page 58:

(education) A random collection of words, used as inspiration for writing.


geed

From the first syllable of GDI (“God Damn Independent”).

I was a geed until I rushed a frat in my sophomore year.

But politically correct universities and colleges, overrun by SJW liberals and angry geeds (read uninitiated and unaffiliated members of the university who have no wish to join Greek life or support it whatsoever) want to destroy the Greek system.

2012, Edward Masters, In Defense of Fraternity and Political Freedom, Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 2:

"No random geeds tonight," another redacted message reads. "Also only 3 people have squared me to help out [with purchasing wine bags], don't be pussies."

2019 February 4, Andrew Linnabary, “Investigation documents shed light on Beta Theta Pi suspension”, in The Sunflower, archived from the original on 2022-12-05:

This does not mention that the entire time I was with any of my sorority sisters, I was wishing I was back with my "geed" friends on the couch watching movies.

2020 December 2, anonymous author, “Opinion: My Unfiltered and Honest Greek Life Experience”, in The Whit Online, archived from the original on 2022-09-22:

I will note that I am not an unabashed supporter of the Greek system. Though both of my grandfathers were Beta Theta Pi alumni, I myself am a geed.

2022 September 1, Weston Curnow, “For the Love of Beer, Save the Humanities”, in The University Daily Kansan, archived from the original on 2022-09-22:

At Bama, there's a divide between "geeds" (non-Greek-affiliated students) and those in sororities and fraternities. I didn't understand this separation.

2022 November 16, Grant Sikes, “I was outed as trans while going through the University of Alabama's competitive sorority rush — before I was able to come out to myself”, in Insider, archived from the original on 2022-12-02:

(university slang, derogatory) A student who is not affliated with a fraternity or sorority.


immersive

en-adj

immersive (comparative more immersive, superlative most immersive)

more immersive (comparative)
most immersive (superlative)

(education) Using or relating to the immersion technique of language teaching.


mainstreaming

en-noun

mainstreaming (usually uncountable, plural mainstreamings)

It was 1979, and for many educators mainstreaming was an idea whose time had come.

1985 April 14, Barbara Gerbasi, “Mainstreaming My Son”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(education, chiefly US) The practice of educating students with special needs in regular classes.


industrial school

industrial school (plural industrial schools)

(historical) Such a residential school formerly used to rehabilitate juvenile delinquents.


predoctoral

a predoctoral fellowship

(education) Prior to receiving a doctorate


Bama

Or maybe on a fifty-yard line
Watchin' 'Bama beat the hell out of Tennessee

2022, “Hell of a Way to Go”, performed by Riley Green:


final exam

final examination
final examination#English


final examination

final examination (plural final examinations)

A test given at the end of a period of coursework to determine whether the student has adequately learned the material covered in that period.


term paper

A substantial research paper written by a student over an academic term or semester which accounts for a large amount of a grade and makes up much of the course.


research paper

A substantial piece of academic writing, usually done as a requirement for a class, in which the author independently researches a topic and writes a description of the findings.


chalkface

From chalk + face.
In the education sense, it is a play on coalface (“place where practical work is done”), after the chalk used on school blackboards, and is believed to have been coined by Ted Wragg for his Times Educational Supplement column.

(education) The environment where teaching is carried out, specifically a school.


honor roll

(US, education) A list of high-achieving students at a university or college.


IU

Indiana University Bloomington
w:Indiana University Bloomington

Initialism of Indiana University Bloomington.

IE

initialism of word for international unit


A minus

(education) A grade lower than "A" and higher than "B plus".


A plus

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


wallchart

I put up a wallchart of the periodic table next to the blackboard.

(education) A large informational chart, typically hung on the wall of a classroom


dweeby

en-adj

dweeby (comparative dweebier, superlative dweebiest)

dweebier (comparative)
dweebiest (superlative)

THEY have no shame. That's my first reaction upon hearing that Candlestick Park has been violated by some dweeby Silicon Valley techno-name.

1995 September 17, George Vecsey, “Sports of The Times; Candlestick Park Deserves Better Than a Nerdy Name”, in The New York Times:

"Mother," Dominica whined, "Oggie Cooder is the dweebiest dweeb to ever walk the earth. I'll die of embarrassment if he comes to my birthday party."

In the public imagination, vaping — with its oversize, multipart manipulatable products — has become associated with a techier, dweebier slice of the population.

2018 July 4, Amos Barshad, “The Juul Is Too Cool”, in The New York Times:

(US, dated, originally university slang, now general slang, derogatory) Like, or characteristic of, a dweeb; nerdy, uncool.


suggestopedia

I've just said that suggestopedia "stacks up well" against a list of individual features, each of which seems to me to be desirable in an approach.

1998, Earl W. Stevick, Working with Teaching Methods: What's at Stake?, page 160:

A teaching method, mainly for foreign languages, that uses songs and games and focuses more on experimenting with the language than on formal acquisition of its rules.


dage

Blend of day + rage (“an exciting party”).

blend

So help me god, if I see someone just standing around at a dage acting like they're not having any fun at all, I will run inside, print out an application for Penn State, and force you to fill it out write in front of me. Have fun, that's what a dage is for, don't be a buzzkill.

2016 March 10, Ryan Cagide, “What not to do at a Rutgers dage”, in The Tab, archived from the original on 2020-06-24:

Dages in general just isn't^([sic]) appealing, but going out in the middle of the afternoon in the snow is what I would least like to do on my day off. If I get a day off from school, I'm going to be using it to catch up on sleep and my Netflix shows.

2019 February 20, Ariana Pelosci, “No, I Would Not Like To 'Snage'”, in The Odyssey Online, archived from the original on 2023-04-08:

Throughout the school year, some UD students embraced the designation, with the No. 1 moniker becoming an often-heard rallying cry during "dages" (daytime parties) and bar crawls alike.

2019 August 5, Natalia Alamdari, Brandon Holveck, “University of Delaware again ranks among the top party schools in the nation. Where did it fall?”, in The News Journal, archived from the original on 2023-04-08:

As someone of legal drinking age who will likely never see another Rutgers dage in her life, the BORG doesn't catch my interest very much as a consumer. But when I got multiple doctors on my feed advocating for the use of a BORG as a harm reduction tactic, it piqued my interest.

2023 March 3, Meredith MacLean, “To BORG or not to BORG: Safe alternative or dangerous trend?”, in The Daily Targum, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-08:

(university slang, East Coast) A party held in the daytime.


cybertutor

A tutor who teaches students via the Internet or other computer-based system rather than face-to-face


magnet school

By age 11, curiosity got the better of me. I joined the neighborhood baseball league, and transferred to Kenwood Academy, a public magnet school.

1994 July 7, William Upski Wimsatt, “Wigger”, in Chicago Reader:

(US) A public school with specialized courses.


CCE

(Singapore, education) Initialism of character and citizenship education.


pregnancy school

en-noun

pregnancy school (plural pregnancy schools)

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

A school exclusively for pregnant girls.


gaelscoil

From Irish, from Gael (“Gael, Gaelic person”) + scoil (“school”).

(Ireland) A school in which Irish is the working language.


med school

med school (countable and uncountable, plural med schools)

"I was given the monicker in med school, because my name was John and I did a certain amount of night-tripping."

2011, James Ellroy, L.A. Noir: The Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy, Random House, page 407:


medical school

medical school (countable and uncountable, plural medical schools)

It's close to the sprawling University of Birmingham campus and the ever-growing Queen Elizabeth Hospital site, which also includes a large medical school.

2021 July 28, Peter Plisner, “The race to the Games has begun”, in RAIL, number 936, page 54:


summative

Coordinate term: formative

en:being of a quantifying type of assessment, in education

(education) Denoting forms of assessment used to quantify educational outcomes.


summative

The reson a summative evaluation might not be available at this point is that it is not unusual to offer summatives for more than one objective as opposed to offering summatives for each objective.

1989, David A. Jacobsen, David Jacobsen, Paul D. Eggen, Methods for Teaching: A Skills Approach, page 215:

Summatives, on the other hand, are used for comparisons between schools and districts.

2015, Michael K. Raible, Every Child, Every Day, page 22:

All of this was great, and there were many summatives that we loved for many reasons. Since becoming standards based, however, our thoughts on summatives have changed.

2018, Emily Rinkema, Stan Williams, The Standards-Based Classroom: Make Learning the Goal, page 58:

(education) A summative assessment; a test that assesses what a student learned during a course of study.


transmissionist

(education) One who favours, or uses, a teaching style focused on transmitting facts without regard to the individual student.


prelims

Are you done with prelims yet?

(uncountable, collective, Oxford University slang) Preliminary examinations taken as a whole, as sat by an individual or year group.


PMR

Penilaian Menengah Rendah
w:Penilaian Menengah Rendah

(Malaysia, education, historical) Initialism of Penilaian Menengah Rendah.


cyberteaching

Teaching carried out via the Internet or other computer system.


ETB

Meanwhile, Andy Pike of Fórsa, which represents SNAs, said the work to accommodate Ukrainian students has been coordinated very well through the Education and Training Boards (ETBs). / The Government could ask the ETBs to make sure there is sufficient provision within their catchment area, he added.

2022 October 4, Jess Casey, “Eight-week summer gap 'not acceptable' for children with additional needs”, in Irish Examiner:

Education and Training Board
w:Education and Training Board

(Ireland, education) Initialism of Education and Training Board.


latchkey kid

(informal) A schoolchild who carries keys to their residence because there is usually no parent home when school finishes.


corner time

corner time (countable and uncountable, plural corner times)

(education) A punishment consisting of a period of time for which the culprit (usually a misbehaving child) must stand still in a corner, facing the wall.


corequisite

Coordinate term: prerequisite

(education) A course that must be or can be taken concurrently with a given course.


Marlburian

(British) Someone who attends the English school Marlborough College


converger

From converge + -er. The learner sense was coined by educational theorists David A. Kolb and Roger E. Fry in the 1970s.

(education) A learner who prefers to focus on the practical application of abstract ideas, hence primarily technical subjects.


IB

International Baccalaureate
International Baccalaureate#English

(education) Initialism of International Baccalaureate.


IB

Coordinate term: AP

(education) An International Baccalaureate program


MEQ

Ministry of Education of Quebec
Ministry of Education of Quebec#English

(Quebec, education) Abbreviation of Ministry of Education of Quebec.


misteach

en-verb

misteach (third-person singular simple present misteaches, present participle misteaching, simple past and past participle mistaught)

misteaches (present singular third-person)
misteaching (participle present)
mistaught (participle past)
mistaught (past)

From Middle English mistechen, from Old English mistǣċan (“to teach amiss, teach falsely”), equivalent to mis- + teach.

inh

Men are mistaught many things: that violence and control of others are acceptable, that they are strong and therefore entitled to be violent. Similarly they are taught that they are not victims; that they can and should take care of themselves. For gay men, this heritage can lead to violence in their relationships and denial about their victimization.

1989 April 22, Jay Reed, “Naming and Confronting Gay Male Battering”, in Gay Community News, page 9:


EAZ

Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.

2001, David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement:

(UK, education) Initialism of Education Action Zone, any of various areas of England considered for special assistance in increasing the quality or availability of educational opportunities, instituted by New Labour.


kohai

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

Borrowed from Japanese 後(こう)輩(はい) (kōhai, literally “later cohort”). Doublet of hoobae.

ja-r

(anime and manga, fandom slang) An underclassman or younger student.


FE

further education
further education#English

(UK, education) Initialism of further education.


rosh yeshiva

en-noun

rosh yeshiva (plural roshei yeshiva or rosh yeshivas)

roshei yeshiva (plural)
rosh yeshivas (plural)


big school

big school (countable and uncountable, plural big schools)

So called because the bigger (older) children attend.

"Big School is more fun than Primary School," said Flossie to her mother as they both sat at the kitchen table, eating their lunch together. "Isn't it, Mum?"

1982, Hunter Davies, Flossie Teacake's Fur Coat:

She had only just started at big school, and she wasn’t used to getting into trouble. She had never done anything wrong at her little school, and even the thought of doing something wrong frightened her.

2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:


school tie

Alumni of prestigious schools fondly wear their school ties as a badge of honor

A necktie designated as (part of a) school uniform


LMS

LMS (countable and uncountable, plural LMSs)

(education) Initialism of learning management system: a software system for delivering, tracking and managing training or education.

learning management system

(education, uncountable) Initialism of local management of schools.


course authoring tool

course authoring tool (plural course authoring tools)

Course authoring tools are special-purpose tools for creating e-learning courses

2003, Katherine Horton, E-learning tools and technologies, page 280:

(education, computing, technology) Software designed for creating e-learning courses.


MCQ

multiple-choice question
multiple-choice question#English

(education) Initialism of multiple-choice question.


edu-babble

Already notorious for edubabble, officials may have hit new depths with a four-page progress report used by the St. Louis public schools.

1992 November 17, “Schoolspeak”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Overwhelmed teachers yearn to escape the edu-babble of conflicting and unworkable policy directives

1998, Andy Hargreaves, International Handbook of Educational Change, page 412:

These terms, this way of talking, is what we like to refer to as “Edu-babble.” Orwell liked to call it doublespeak. Edu-babble is just that, with some hip catchphrases attached. And by hip I mean impractical.

2009, Gwendolyn Green, Edu-Babble: The Glamorous World of the New York City Public School System, page 3:

(education, derogatory) Jargon on educational topics; writing or speech containing a large amount of education jargon.


ride the short bus

en-verb

ride the short bus (third-person singular simple present rides the short bus, present participle riding the short bus, simple past rode the short bus, past participle ridden the short bus)

rides the short bus (present singular third-person)
riding the short bus (participle present)
rode the short bus (past)
ridden the short bus (participle past)

learning disabilities
learning disability

(US, slang, idiomatic, derogatory, education) To participate in a special education program, such as for those with learning disabilities.

[…] complete with golden shag carpet on the floor and Christian rock posters on the wall for the poor kids forced to ride the short bus of Christian culture […]

2006, Mark Driscoll, Confessions of a Reformission Rev:

"Have you been riding the short bus, or something? You know what Us Weekly said about her."

Admittedly, I'm no Rhodes Scholar, but I didn't ride the short bus to school either, […]

2011, Anthony Q. Artis, The Shut Up and Shoot: Freelance Video Guide:

“You think because I make my living putting balls through hoops, I rode the short bus to school?”

2014, T. E. Woods, The Red Hot Fix: A Justice Novel:

I accidentally called him Chris, and he turned red and yelled, "My name is Christopher"
Okay, now I was thinking he rode the short bus. As quick as he erupted, he relaxed and told me how much he loves his nanna and his kitty, Buttons. I ended the date early and said goodnight and went home.

2014, Greg Figueroa, Emily Feliciano, Worst Dates: best of the rest, page 4:

Is there any place on earth that has as many elected officials who rode the short bus to school as Lackawanna County?

2016 October 21, “Flynn, Burgerhoff square off in 113th district debate”, in Scranton Times-Tribune:

(US, slang, idiomatic, derogatory, education) To require a special education program, as though one were learning-disabled.


s.l.a.n.

Latin sine loco, anno et nomine (“without place, year and name”); probably a simplification of s. l. a. et typ. n. which stands for sine loco, anno et typographi nomine (“without place, year and printer's name”)

m+

(library science) without place, year, and name of publisher or printer


school trip

an event in which schoolchildren travel to a location separate from their normal learning environment under the authority of the staff of their school and with the purpose of learning by experience.


pennying

en-noun

pennying (countable and uncountable, plural pennyings)

The game, in which participants must ‘save the queen' by downing their drink if a penny is dropped into it, is already banned in most dining halls. However, the revelation that permitting pennying is now a criminal offence may mean that even stricter policies will now be enforced.

2010 October 28, Eleanor Dickinson, Andrew Georgiou, The Cambridge Student, archived from the original on 2016-08-01:

(uncountable, Oxbridge slang) The activity of pennying in general, as part of a meal or drinking game, whereby dropping a penny in a person's drink means that they must finish it (or some such variation thereof); commonly associated with crewdates at Oxford and swaps at Cambridge.

(countable, Oxbridge slang, uncommon) An act of pennying, as part of a meal or drinking game.


DELF

(education) Diplôme d'étude de langue française, a French-language qualification.


metadiscourse

metadiscourse (countable and uncountable, plural metadiscourses)

(philosophy, linguistics, education) Discussion, especially involving academic analysis, about a discussion or about discourse.

Meronyms: transition, summative, disjunct

Everything you write needs metadiscourse, but too much buries your ideas […] Some teachers and editors urge us to cut all metadiscourse, but everything we write needs some. You have to read with an eye to how good writers in your field use it, then do likewise. There are, however, some types that you can usually cut. [Examples follow.]

2012, Joseph M. Williams, Gregory G. Colomb, Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace, Longman, →ISBN, page 64:

(philosophy, linguistics, education) Words and phrases, woven into a discourse, whose reference is the external framing constituted by the reader's attention and purposes for reading, the writer's purposes for writing, the narrative sequence or document organization, the epistemics behind the discourse, and so on.


responsion

/ɹɪˈspɒnʃən/

(UK, education, historical, in the plural) The first of three examinations once required for an academic degree at the University of Oxford; nicknamed the little go and generally taken around the time of matriculation.


MBioEnt

(education) Abbreviation of Master of Bioscience Enterprise.


diverger

From diverge + -er. The learner sense was coined by educational theorists David A. Kolb and Roger E. Fry in the 1970s.

(education) A learner who prefers reflection on and discussion of their concrete experiences, and thus typically cultural and creative subjects.


pracademic

en-adj

pracademic (comparative more pracademic, superlative most pracademic)

more pracademic (comparative)
most pracademic (superlative)

Blend of practitioner + academic. The earliest reference may have been identified by a subscriber to Worldwide Words in 1973.

I earned a pracademic degree.

The Pracademic Curve

Pertaining to a type of teaching style for entrepreneurs


those who can't do, teach

If those who can't do, teach — then what will those who can't teach, do?

2004, Shirley M. Hord, Learning Together, Leading Together, →ISBN:

Now, there is an unkind saying in education that “those who can, 'do'; those who can't 'do', teach; those who can't teach, teach others to teach; while those who can't teach others to teach become either education administrators or researchers”.

2007, Roy Vincent, Listening to the Silences, →ISBN, page 21:

They say, “Those who can't do, teach.” Don't you believe it. Those who teach show those who can't how to.

2010, Charles J. Mertz, So,You Want To Be a Teacher, →ISBN, page 12:

(derogatory) It is easier to get a job teaching how to do something than to get a job actually doing that thing.


D.

(education) Abbreviation of doctor, as used in academic degrees.


undermatching

(US, education, economics) The practice of accepting a match that is less than optimal, especially when accepting a slot at a college or university when a superior one is available.


sight word

Our program will teach your child 200 sight words.

Aside from the handful of words directly taught by teachers, every sight word was once not a sight word; at least once its identity had to be figured out through some combination of decoding and context skills.

2000, Nancy C. Lewkowicz, “On the Question of Teaching Decoding Skills to Older Students”, in Struggling Adolescent Readers, →ISBN, page 191:

(education) A word that a learner recognizes, or is expected to recognize, on sight.


summatively

The author observes that teachers who persistently perform poorly can be counseled out of teaching by using the model summatively.

1995, Anthony J Shinkfield, Daniel L Stufflebeam, Teacher evaluation: guide to effective practice:

A good example of a process that can be assessed formatively and summatively is student use of safety skills in a laboratory or vocational program.

2009, Ken O'Connor, How to Grade for Learning, K-12:

(education) By means of summative assessments, aiming to summarize earlier knowledge with periodic tests.


open-book

(education) Designating exams in which specified external resources, potentially including textbooks, glossaries, study notes, calculators, etc. may be used.


closed-book

(education) Designating an examination in which external resources such as calculators, glossaries, and study notes are prohibited.

閉卷 /闭卷

referring to exams in which external resources are prohibited


unstreamed

(UK, education) Not divided into streams.


SPAG

(UK, education) Acronym of spelling, punctuation and grammar: a set of criteria used in marking certain examinations.


chalk talk

(education) An informal lecture on an academic subject.


off-campus

Engaging in an activity by a faculty member or a student of an educational institution off the campus.


on-campus

Engaging in an activity by a faculty member or a student of an educational institution on the campus.


grand rounds

(medicine education, invariant) A series of lectures whose subject matter is a particular patient or similar case or a formal hospital meeting at which physicians discuss interesting medical cases.


multigrade

(education) Relating to students of differing grade levels


summer melt

Summer melt sometimes happens when students are admitted over the summer to a school that places the student on a waitlist in the spring.

(education) The phenomenon where incoming students who have committed to attend a college or university change their minds during the summer and opt to attend another institution.


prink

en-verb

prink (third-person singular simple present prinks, present participle prinking, simple past and past participle prinked)

prinks (present singular third-person)
prinking (participle present)
prinked (participle past)
prinked (past)

(UK, university slang, humorous) To pre-drink.


B.B.A.

Business Administration
business administration


B. Des.

(education) Abbreviation of Bachelor of design.


entrance examination

en-noun

entrance examination (plural entrance examinations)

(education) An examination that an educational institution conducts to select prospective students.

уступны экзамен

an examination that an educational institution conducts to select prospective students


nonconserving

(education, psychology) Being a nonconserver: not yet aware 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.


RMIT

w:Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Initialism of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.


IGCSE

w:International General Certificate of Secondary Education

(education) Initialism of International General Certificate of Secondary Education; an internationally recognised qualification taken by secondary school students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland; similar to the GCSE.


rule the school

en-verb

rule the school (third-person singular simple present rules the school, present participle ruling the school, simple past and past participle ruled the school)

rules the school (present singular third-person)
ruling the school (participle present)
ruled the school (participle past)
ruled the school (past)

After Page, Dr. E. Goodenough ruled the school from 1819 to 1828. On his retirement he obtained the deanery of Wells ...

1884, George Augustus Sala with Edmund Hodgson Yates, “Westminster School”, in Temple bar, volume 71, page 504:

To substantially control a school administratively, financially, or in terms of its curriculum.


MAS

en-noun

MAS (countable and uncountable, plural MASes)

(education) Initialism of master of applied science.


FSM

(UK, education) Initialism of free school meals.


PSE

From what I remember, periods of PSE – personal and social education – were mostly spent catching up on work for other subjects or shooting the breeze with the teacher.

2022 July 18, Martin Pengelly, “I grew up where Liz Truss did, attended the same school. She’s not telling you the truth”, in The Guardian:

(UK, education) Initialism of personal and social education.

post-secondary education
w:post-secondary education

(education) Initialism of post-secondary education.


SEN

(UK, Hong Kong, education) Initialism of special educational needs.


exam paper

A piece of paper on which examination candidates are expected to write their answers.


nonstreamed

(UK, education) Not divided into academic streams.


colleger

(UK, education) One of the 70 foundationers at Eton College.


further education

(UK) Education beyond compulsory schooling, not including university-based higher education.


LL.M.

Derived from Latin lēgum magister.
The "L" is duplicated to indicate that the word lēgum is plural, similarly to pp. (“pages”).


prinks

(UK, university slang, humorous) Contraction of pre-drinks.


Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy (plural Doctors of Philosophy)

A terminal research degree and one of the highest doctorates awarded by a university.


VELS

w:Victorian Essential Learning Standards

(Australia, education) Initialism of Victorian Essential Learning Standards, a school curriculum framework used in Victoria, Australia.


Frozen Four

These two teams have an amazing number of Frozen Fours between them.

(ice hockey, US, informal) An appearance in the Frozen Four.


prex

(US, university slang) A president, especially of a university.


HSK

Initials of Hanyu Pinyin for Mandarin 漢語水平考試／汉语水平考试 (Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì).

zh-l

漢語水平考試／汉语水平考试 (Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì)

Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi
w:Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi

(education) Initialism of Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, standardized test of Standard Mandarin Chinese proficiency for non-native speakers.

اِمْتِحَان مُسْتَوَى اَللُّغَة اَلصِّينِيَّة

中国語検定試験

ちゅうごくごけんていしけん

中国語能力検定試験

ちゅうごくのうりょくごけんていしけん

tɛst po kitájskomu jazykú kak inostránnomu

тест по кита́йскому языку́ как иностра́нному


single-track

Highglen elementary school will maintain a dual-track system of a Montessori program and a regular neighbourhood school program side-by-side for one more year, Prince George trustees decided this week. In January, the board had voted in favour of making the Montessori program into a single-track program where it would occupy an entire school like Highglen.

2003 April 19, Paul Strickland, “Single-track Montessori on hold until 2004”, in Prince George Citizen, Prince George, British Columbia, page 3:

This week the district placed Cathedral City Elementary and Landau Elementary back to a “single-track” schedule in which all students attend school on the same days throughout the year. A few years ago, overcrowding forced the district to split students into tracks so that some kids attended classes while others were on vacation.

2006 April 15, “Our voice”, in The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, California, page B10:

(education) Having a single curriculum or other educational approach for all students.


preservice

(education) Occurring before a trainee teacher begins service.


holist

Pask suggests that these strategies reflect basic learning styles; holist strategies reflect a comprehension learning style and serialist strategies an operation learning style.

2000, Francis M. Quinn, The Principles and Practice of Nurse Education, page 34:

Pask described the two strategies as 'holist' and 'serialist'.[…]Learners who adopt a holist strategy (described as comprehension learners) like to get an overview of a topic.

2001, Howard Hills, Team-based Learning, page 87:

The serialist/holist cognitive style is a measure of a bipolar information-processing strategy that describes the way that learners select and represent information (Pask, 1976; Pask & Scott, 1972).

2012, David H. Jonassen, Barbara L. Grabowski, Handbook of Individual Differences Learning and Instruction, page 209:

(education, of a learning strategy) That concentrates on forming an overview of the topic.


holist

Those subjects using a serialist strategy tended to proceed in a step-by-step manner, whereas the holists adopted a more global approach to what was to be learned.

They^([serialists]) learn rules, methods and details more readily than the holists.

Holists use a global, thematic approach to learning by concentrating first on building broad descriptions.[…]The holist then uses complex links to relate mutileveled information.

(education) One who prefers to learn by forming an overview of the topic.


antilearning

en-adj

antilearning (comparative more antilearning, superlative most antilearning)

more antilearning (comparative)
most antilearning (superlative)

(education) Opposing or countering learning.


swot vac

This is clearly what happens in the "swot-vac" phenomenon: the student rote-learns his material for just long enough to see the exam through.

1968, John Burville Biggs, Information and human learning, Australia: Cassell:

In the old days it was probably quite a sound alternative to the "swot-vac" spent in cold towels and black coffee or benzedrine as done in Australia.

2003, Frank William Coaldrake, Maida Coaldrake, William Howard Coaldrake, Japan from war to peace: the Coaldrake records 1939-1956, Routledge, page 234:

I reminded her that it was the September holidays, and after that I was off on swot vac until the exams started.

2004, Joanne Horniman, Secret Scribbled Notebooks,, Allen & Unwin, page 28:

She died during the swotvac before my third year exams.

2006, Vaughan Nikitin, Wurruk: Reflections in Black and White, page 249:

(Australia, education, informal) In secondary and tertiary education, a period of non-teaching prior to examinations.


prepper

‘We have a vacancy at a very nice little prepper in North Yorkshire. Cundall Manor.’


occupational therapy

en-noun

occupational therapy (usually uncountable, plural occupational therapies)

(psychiatry, education, mental health) Sensory play for children often involving an obstacle course to relieve stress while the therapist works to nurture the patient's basic life skills.


antitruancy

en-adj

antitruancy (comparative more antitruancy, superlative most antitruancy)

more antitruancy (comparative)
most antitruancy (superlative)

(education) Opposing or countering truancy from school.


speech day

(education) A school event where prizes are given out to pupils, and speeches are made by guest speakers.


state school

A government-funded school, paid for by taxes.


overlearn

en-verb

overlearn (third-person singular simple present overlearns, present participle overlearning, simple past and past participle overlearned or overlearnt)

overlearns (present singular third-person)
overlearning (participle present)
overlearned (participle past)
overlearned (past)
overlearnt (participle past)
overlearnt (past)

(psychology, education) To learn (something) to the point where responses become instinctive.


core curriculum

en-noun

core curriculum (plural core curricula or core curriculums)

core curricula (plural)
core curriculums (plural)

The senior high school, if free to concentrate on intensive specialized courses and a core curriculum of constants, will consummate the socially integrating influences of the elementary school.

1923, James M. Glass, “The Reorganization of the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Grades—Program of Studies”, in The School Review, volume 31, number 7, pages 523–524:

Thus, the undergraduate core curriculum is a college's foundational education, a developing lens that effectively focuses issues of whatever sort and projects them, so focused, onto a community screen as conventional wisdom.

1991, David M. Bossman, “Cross-Cultural Values for a Pluralistic Core Curriculum”, in The Journal of Higher Education, volume 62, number 6, page 662:

Even the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act includes foreign languages as part of a core curriculum.

2007, Anne C. Lewis, “Language Learning and National Security”, in Phi Delta Kappan, volume 89, number 2, page 84:

(education) The courses or other components of an educational program which are foundational, prerequisite, or mandatory, as opposed to the elective, secondary, or variable components of a program.


friendship bench

friendship bench (plural friendship benches)

(education) A bench in a grade school's public area meant for a child on free time in need of someone to talk with, and whoever joins them there for that reason.


cram school

Most of my classmates went to a cram school in order to get ready for the high school entrance exams that you take in the second half of ninth grade.

2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), pages 139-140:

entrance examination
entrance examination

(education) A specialized school that trains students to meet particular goals, most commonly to pass the entrance examinations of high schools or universities.


ipsative

(education) Comparing a measure of a person against that person’s previous assessments.


self-study

educational institution
educational institution

Study without the aid of a formal educational institution.

自學 /自学

study without the aid of a formal education institution


self-learning

Learning done by oneself, without a teacher or instructor.


PAT

PAT (countable and uncountable, plural PATs)

(education, Alberta) Initialism of provincial achievement test.


rule of three

(mathematics education) A rule stating that, if two ratios are equal, then the denominator of the second equals its numerator times the reciprocal of the first ratio: if a/b=c/d then d=(bc)/a.


YELLIS

(UK, education) Year eleven information system: a mathematics and vocabulary test used to compare the performance of GCSE pupils.


conscientization

Conscientization includes exchanges of ideas, debates, discussions, and working with students and not on them. Freire fashions conscientization as a process that results from confrontation with the world; it also entails constant research as well as invention and reinvention.

1994, John L. Elias, Paulo Freire: Pedagogue of Liberation, Krieger Publishing Company, page 123:

(sociology, education) A social concept, grounded in Marxist critical theory, that focuses on achieving an in-depth understanding of the world, allowing for the perception and exposure of social and political contradictions.


CEF

Common European Framework
w:Common European Framework

(education) Initialism of Common European Framework.


dance studio

A studio where dancing skills can be practiced and trained.


ChCh

Christ Church, Oxford
w:Christ Church, Oxford

(Oxford University slang) Initialism of Christ Church, Oxford.


special school

A school specifically run for students with disabilities or other problems that need special treatment.


coterminal

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coterminal student

(university education, of a student) Simultaneously studying towards two or more separate degrees.


secondary modern

secondary modern (plural secondary moderns)

(education, British) In the UK, from 1944 to the 1970s, a secondary school for children who had failed the eleven plus examination.


Wykehamist

From Wykeham + -ist, after William of Wykeham, the founder of Winchester College.

A prized possession of mine is a recording of Empson reading his poems in a tone of voice that I believe no other human being can match, even if that person also combined Wykehamist, Cantabrigian, and Chinese accents.

2010, Steven L. Isenberg, The American Scholar, Lunching on Olympus:

Of, pertaining to or characteristic of Winchester College.


A−

Academic grade issued by some institutions, which is inferior to an A and superior to a B+.


Camford

(UK, education, rare) Synonym of Oxbridge


hagwon

Geneho, whose bedroom faces the street, is attending a hagwon, a Korean tutoring program.

2007 August 12, Fred A. Bernstein, “A House to Grow Into”, in New York Times:

A profit-making private school, common in South Korea.


divvers

Jocular modification of divinity + -ers. See Oxford "-er".

(Oxford University slang, archaic) divinity (as a subject or examination).


Radder

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

(Oxford University slang, archaic) The Radcliffe Camera.


supersenior

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postsecondary education
postsecondary school

(education, US, Philippines) A university student who is in their fifth year of postsecondary education without having graduated.


statemented

(UK, education) Having been provided with a Statement of Educational Needs.


course credit

(education, academics) A unit for measuring the amount of academic studies of which exact definition varies by learning institution. Typically, there is a minimum number of course credits required as a precondition for graduation.


preschooling

the early education that occurs at preschool


TPS

TPS (countable and uncountable, plural TPS's or TPSes)


BCL

Bachelor of Civil Law
w:Bachelor of Civil Law

(education, law) Initialism of Bachelor of Civil Law.


academize

en-verb

academize (third-person singular simple present academizes, present participle academizing, simple past and past participle academized)

academizes (present singular third-person)
academizing (participle present)
academized (participle past)
academized (past)

(transitive, UK, education) To convert (a school) into a publicly-run academy.


academic year

In many countries the academic year starts in September and finishes in August of the next calendar year.

(education) The annual period during which a student attends school, college or university.


religious education

The teaching of a particular religion, and its doctrines, beliefs etc.

(UK) The teaching about various religions; also known as religious studies.


test site

Connie took her bar exam at the University of Texas test site.

(education) A room dedicated to the administration of exams, especially for certifications.


Valpo

Valparaiso University
w:Valparaiso University


lecture theatre

en-noun

lecture theatre (plural lecture theatres)

Inside classrooms and lecture theatres, all signage is in English, as is the signage in the staff office blocks. There were only three exceptions to this complete predominance of English.

2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:

A room in a university with many seats and a sloped floor, used to hold lectures.


Smurf turf

Rhyming name: The Smurfs are blue cartoon characters.

(US, sports, slang) The distinctive blue ground of the Bronco Stadium, Idaho, United States.


wranglership

wranglership (countable and uncountable, plural wranglerships)

(education) The honor or position of being a wrangler (at the University of Cambridge, England)


bar out

en-verb

bar out (third-person singular simple present bars out, present participle barring out, simple past and past participle barred out)

bars out (present singular third-person)
barring out (participle present)
barred out (participle past)
barred out (past)

(transitive, literally) To keep (someone or something) from entering.


flashboard

(education) An acrylic board used to display children's work in a school.

Then he comes forward, takes the flashboard V, and stands in front of the class so that all may see it .

The tachistoscope is a mechanical flashboard, an apparatus for testing recognition, attention, and memory, which flashes images on a screen for measured periods of time, usually from 1/100 of a second to one second.

1960, Louis Shores, Instructional Materials: An Introduction for Teachers:

It is also at this level that each sentence of the experience story is put on a separate strip of paper or flashboard.

1972, Communication Training in Childhood Brain Damage, page 354:

A set of nine or ten flashboards is sufficient for most purposes and avoids the consumption of great quantities of card.

2002, Geoffrey Broughton, Christopher Brumfit, Teaching English as a Foreign Language:

Unlike a picture chart the flashboard contains only language material .

2004, Joseph C. Mukalel, Creative Approaches to Classroom Teaching, page 147:

(education) A board for displaying language material in the classroom, used like a flashcard but potentially holding more information.


chargehouse

Do you not educate youth at the / charge-house on the top of the mountain?

c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, act 5, scene 1, lines 77–78:


day school

A school attended during the day, as opposed to a boarding school.


ALS

w:Alternative Learning System (Philippines)

(Philippines, education) Initialism of Alternative Learning System.


helpsheet

(education) A sheet of paper with advice and suggestions related to schoolwork or learning.


Sorbonne

The historic University of Paris that was previously located there.


error/mistake distinction

the error/mistake distinction (canonical)

(education) The distinction drawn by some language teachers between an "error" (a mistaken belief that a given usage or construction is correct; or, an incorrect use resulting from such a belief) and "a mistake" (an accidental use of a usage or construction despite knowing that it is incorrect).


exchange student

en-noun

exchange student (plural exchange students)

A student who is participating in a student exchange scheme.


drag up

en-verb

drag up (third-person singular simple present drags up, present participle dragging up, simple past and past participle dragged up)

drags up (present singular third-person)
dragging up (participle present)
dragged up (participle past)
dragged up (past)

It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.

(transitive, UK, figurative) To raise a child with insufficient discipline or instillment of social etiquette.


one-and-done

John Calipari's Kentucky squad was made up of one-and-done players.

(slang, basketball) A basketball player who plays college basketball for a single year and then declares for the NBA draft.


fagmaster

(historical, education, in public schools) A senior student who has a junior student as a fag, or servant.


Hilary term

Hilary + term. The name Hilary is from the Latin Hilarius (“Latin name of Saint Hilary of Poitiers”), hilarius (“more cheerful, more joyful”), from hilarē (“cheerful, joyful”), from hilaris (“cheerful, light-hearted, lively”), from Ancient Greek ἱλαρός (hilarós, “cheerful, glad, happy, joyful, merry”), from ἵλαος (hílaos, “gracious, merciful, propitious; gentle, kind, mild”). The feast day of Saint Hilary of Poitiers (c. 310 – c. 367), 13 January, occurs during this term.

der

There are four terms in the year, viz. […] 2. Hilary term, which begins on the 14th day of January, and ends the day before Palm Sunday.

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 second academic term of the universities of Oxford and Dublin, and other educational institutions, running from January to March; equivalent to Lent term at the University of Cambridge. The term was modelled after the legal term, but does not begin and end on the same dates.


privatdozent

en-noun

privatdozent (plural privatdozents or privatdozenten)

privatdozents (plural)
privatdozenten (plural)

Unadapted borrowing from German Privatdozent. Doublet of private docent.

ubor

In some European countries, an academic who holds all formal qualifications (doctorate and habilitation) to become a tenured university professor.

Privatdozent

academic who holds all formal qualifications to become a tenured university professor


Elite Eight

(basketball, US, informal) An appearance in the Elite Eight, whether in Division I or II.


donnism

(UK, university slang, dated) self-importance; loftiness of carriage


zero period

(education) A high school class that is offered early in the morning, before the scheduled start of the school day.


philanthropinism

(historical, education) A 19th-century German system of education, aiming to reform society by teaching children to become philanthropic, natural and rational beings.


primary education

The basic schooling given to children up to the age of puberty, including reading, writing, and basic mathematics.


secondary education

Education that follows primary education and leads to either employment or college / university education.

中等教育

education of children that follows primary education and leads to either employment or further education


entz

A humorous respelling of ents, itself a contraction of entertainments.

(Oxford University slang) Social and entertainment events provided for the students.


early childhood education

The formal teaching and care of young children by people other than their family, or in settings outside of the home, before the age of normal schooling.


CPE

en-noun

CPE (countable and uncountable, plural CPEs)

Cambridge University
w:en:Cambridge University

(education) Abbreviation of Certificate of Proficiency in English. (the highest-level ESOL exam awarded by Cambridge University)


CAE

Certificate in Advanced English
w:Certificate in Advanced English

Acronym of Certificate in Advanced English, the second highest level ESOL exam awarded by Cambridge University.


doctoral thesis

doctoral thesis (plural doctoral theses)

A research paper that a student writes in order to complete the requirements for a doctorate; a dissertation.


grade on a curve

en-verb

grade on a curve (third-person singular simple present grades on a curve, present participle grading on a curve, simple past and past participle graded on a curve)

grades on a curve (present singular third-person)
grading on a curve (participle present)
graded on a curve (participle past)
graded on a curve (past)

Referring to the bell curve of a normal distribution.

He asked the teacher to grade (the test) on a curve.

To use a grading system based on the scale of performance of a group to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject; to curve a grade.


numberwork

(education) mathematical work done with numbers


groupwork

(education, therapy) Work done in groups.


sourcework

(education) historical work emphasising the use of sources


VGTU

w:Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

(education) Initialism of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Vilniaus Gedimino Technikos Universitetas) in Lithuania.


victory lap

2012 Summer Olympics
Gladys Tejeda
Nastassia Staravoitava
Rasa Drazdauskaitė
Sviatlana Kouhan
Ümmü Kiraz

It’s not just finances that lead to victory laps. Those who study abroad during undergraduate may find it difficult to earn enough credits to fulfill degree requirements in four years.

2013 February 25, Vivien Chang, “The myth of the four-year degree”, in Maclean's:

McNaughton continues, “I took a stroll underneath it before freshman year and I am going to be taking a victory lap.”

2017 April 1, Peter Lenz, “The Clock Tower: The History, The Myths, and More”, in The Racquet:

(Canada, US, education, slang) One or more years of study beyond the traditional four taken to complete one's undergraduate degree.

An examination of the data generated by the survey instrument revealed the existence of a definitive gender disparity between the two groups in that 47.8% (22 of 46) of male respondents reported having taken a victory lap compared to 20.2% (21 of 104) of their female counterparts.

2010 November 18, Patrick Brady, Philip Allingham, “Pathways to University: The ‘Victory Lap’ Phenomenon in Ontario”, in Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, number 113:

Each year as many as 20,000 students head back for a so-called victory lap in Ontario's classrooms, which prompted the province to implement a 34-credit cap in a bid to save up to $22 million annually.

2012 April 9, Teri Pecoskie, “A cap on the victory lap”, in Hamilton Spectator:

(Canada, chiefly Ontario, education, slang) One or more additional years of study in high school.


chalk and talk

(informal, derogatory, education) The traditional method of teaching, consisting mainly of speaking and writing on a chalkboard.


quadrium

Church music was carefully taught at the universities. IT was of the four sciences of the quadrium, and was a means of promotion in the church and colleges.

1861, William Howitt, John Cassell's illustrated history of England:

He describes how by the late fifteenth century the language arts of the trivium had come to seem useful only for communication, teaching and public debate, and how humanists turned to the mathematical arts of the quadrium - including music - to enable new means and methods of discovery.

1997, Timothy J. Reiss, Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe:

The classical curriculum distinguishes between trivium and quadrium to classify knowledge fields in education. Trivium deals with the disciplines of language, grammar, rhetoric, dialectic and logic, while quadrium deals with the sciences of arithmetic, geometry and astronomy.

2014, Andreas Nordin, Transnational Policy Flows in European Education:


IPCC

(education, India) Initialism of Integrated Professional Competency Course: a course of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.


senior high school

en-noun

senior high school (countable and uncountable, plural senior high schools)

(US) An institution which provides secondary education, typically in grades 10, 11, and 12, and often also in grade 9.

高級中學 /高级中学

(Philippines) A secondary education school for grades 11 to 12 (a continuation of junior high school).


intermediate school

intermediate school (plural intermediate schools)

(education) A school for children that serves grades between elementary school and high school, and occasionally between the former and middle school. These grades vary from anywhere from grade 4 to grade 12.


tenure-track

[T]he hierarchical structure of Japanese academic-research teams often denies women precious tenure-track positions.

2005 March 21, Hanna Kite, “Japan Lags Behind”, in Time:

It would be better to forget RAE exercises and instead have a large number of independent universities with proper tenure-track positions and with high standards enforced.

2009 January 22, Andrew Oswald, “Competition is the key to the best research”, in The Independent, UK:

(education, of a professorship or other academic job) Possessing contractually guaranteed terms of employment specifying that, after a period of time, the employed person will be considered for tenure status, which typically confers enhanced job security and sometimes other benefits.


P&P

(Oxford University slang) Initialism of Port and Policy.


town and gown

[H]owls, curses, flights of brickbats, stones shivering windows, groans of wounded men, cries of frightened females, cheers of either contending party as it charged the enemy from Carfax to Trumpington Street, proclaimed that the battle was at its height. In Berlin they would have said it was a revolution, and the cuirassiers would have been charging, sabre in hand, amidst that infuriate mob. In France they would have brought down artillery, and played on it with twenty-four pounders. In Cambridge nobody heeded the disturbance—it was a Town and Gown row.

1856, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Codlingsby”, in Burlesques:

Everybody was quiet now, both town and gown; the students were at their dinners and so were the burghers.

1919, Booth Tarkington, chapter 14, in Ramsey Milholland:

[T]he first archives of this University were burned in the ‘Town and Gown’ riots of 1381 by the Townsmen.

1920, Arthur Quiller-Couch, On The Art of Reading, Lecture V—"On Reading for Examinations"

(chiefly UK, idiomatic, sometimes capitalized) On the one hand, the members of the city, borough, or similar community near a university and, on the other hand, the students and faculty of the university itself, especially when understood as rivals in a state of tension or conflict.


general education

(education) Education in a number of important subjects, taught in schools.

普通教育

education in a number of important subjects


liberal education

general education
general education#English

(education) Synonym of general education


e-education

Education assisted by computer technology.

網絡教育 /网络教育

education assisted by computer technology


UCSD

University of California, San Diego
w:University of California, San Diego

(education, US) Initialism of University of California, San Diego.


uneducatedness

The quality of being uneducated; lack of education; ignorance.


preliminary examination

preliminary examination (plural preliminary examinations)

(education) An examination that usually qualifies a student to continue studies at a higher level.


multiple-choice question

multiple-choice question (plural multiple-choice questions)

Holonyms: exam, examination, test, testbank

(education) A question where several answers are presented and the respondent must choose the correct one.

選擇題 /选择题

a question where the answerer has the choice between multiple answers


kollel

Borrowed from Hebrew כולל (“collective, community”).

bor+

(education, Judaism) An institute for full-time advanced study of the Talmud and rabbinic literature.


plate-glass university

en-noun

plate-glass university (plural plate-glass universities)

Modelled on red brick university, from the use of plate glass in modern architecture. Coined by British barrister Michael Beloff in 1970.

coin

The new “red-bricks” of Hull, Exeter and Leicester were followed in the 60s by mass expansion as the “plate-glass universities”, such as Warwick, York and Sussex, came into being.

2014 October 12, Julian Coman, “Have England's universities been privatised by stealth?”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

Keele is historically important as the first ‘Plate Glass University’, but also for the vague carelessness of its planning and architecture, which made it a cautionary example, leading to the much more coherent masterplanning and landscaping at the Universities of Sussex (p. 238), Essex (p. 190), York (p. 394), East Anglia (p. 198) and Stirling (p. 508).

2022, Owen Hatherley, Modern Buildings in Britain: A Gazetteer, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

(UK) Any of several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in the era of the Robbins Report on higher education.


syndetical

From syndetic + -al. Equivalent to syndeton + -ical.

(grammar, mathematics and library science, uncommon) Synonym of syndetic.


syndetically

From syndetic + -ally. Equivalent to syndeton + -ic + -ally.

(grammar, mathematics and library science) In a syndetic way, employing syndeton, using a conjunction or crossreferences.


GCR

(education, UK, rare) Initialism of Graduate Common Room (in certain British universities.)


TLE

en-noun

TLE (countable and uncountable, plural TLEs)

(Philippines, education) Initialism of technology and livelihood education.


call time

en-verb

call time (third-person singular simple present calls time, present participle calling time, simple past and past participle called time)

calls time (present singular third-person)
calling time (participle present)
called time (participle past)
called time (past)

The teacher called time, and there were a few groans. (Some children pleaded for more time, another just said it was really hard, and a few others agreed that this was really cool.)

2011, Linda Schwartz Green, Diane Casale-Giannola, 40 Active Learning Strategies for the Inclusive Classroom, Grades K–5, Corwin Press, →ISBN, page 104:

(US, education) To indicate that an activity, especially the taking of a test, is complete.


Harrovian

From New Latin Harrovia (“Harrow”) + -an.

For instance, from 1857 forty or fifty Harrovians met and played every Wednesday and matches were often arranged between particular colleges, the teams being made up entirely of Harrovians.

2005, Adrian Harvey, Football: The First Hundred Years, page 43:


selective school

en-noun

selective school (plural selective schools)

(education) A school that admits students on the basis of their academic achievements.


Penn

* As an English surname, named after various places such as Penn in Buckinghamshire or Staffordshire, of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *penn (“(hill) top, head”).
* Also as an English surname, from the noun pen (“enclosure”).
* Also as an English surname, spelling variant of Parnell.
* As a German surname, from Sorbian pien (“tree stump”), from Proto-Slavic *pьňь.

der

An unincorporated community in Ramsey County, North Dakota.

A number of townships in the United States, including in Illinois (2), Indiana (3), Iowa (4), Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio (2), and Pennsylvania (12), listed under Penn Township.


gurukul

* From Sanskrit गुरु (guru) + कुल (kula).

A type of school in India and in several other countries, residential in nature, with pupils living near the guru, often within the same house.


MOOC

In some ways, how learning and sharing works in a MOOC is more akin to a social network than to a traditional classroom.

2011 August 4, Audrey Watters, “Are MOOCs the Future of Online Learning?”, in KQED.org, retrieved 2013-01-17:

Besides the Artificial Intelligence course, Stanford offered two other MOOCs last semester — Machine Learning (104,000 registered, and 13,000 completed the course), and Introduction to Databases (92,000 registered, 7,000 completed).

2012 March 4, Tamar Lewin, “Instruction for Masses Knocks Down Campus Walls”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-01-17:

With MOOCs offered by the most renowned professors in their respective fields, students have less incentive to relocate for postsecondary education.

2013 January 16, Anita Singh, Howard Adelman, “How open courses are changing the modern university”, in University Affairs, Canada, retrieved 2013-01-17:

A massive open online course designed for a very large enrollment, offered on the World Wide Web by an educational institution and typically free of charge.


Body

* As an English surname, from Middle English body, probably a nickname for a corpulent person; and occupational surname from Middle English bode (“messenger”) + -y (diminutive ending). Equivalent to bode (“messenger, herald”) + -y.
* As a French surname, variant of Bodin.
* As a Hungarian surname Bódy, variant of Bódi, Bodi.

(Cambridge University slang, archaic) Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.


feeder school

A school or college, many of whose graduates continue their education at another specific school or college, or enter a specific profession


sport one's oak

en-verb

sport one's oak (third-person singular simple present sports one's oak, present participle sporting one's oak, simple past and past participle sported one's oak)

sports one's oak (present singular third-person)
sporting one's oak (participle present)
sported one's oak (participle past)
sported one's oak (past)

From sport (“(archaic) to close or shut (a door)”) and oak (“outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college (especially of the University of Cambridge or University of Oxford) or similar institution, especially one made of oak wood”). Compare French trouver visage de bois (“to find no one at home”, literally “to find a wooden face (that is, the door)”).

noncog

For arguing that a man will be plucked take the Topics following: for among men likely to be plucked [i.e., rejected after failing an examination for a degree] are these for the most part. […] He that sporteth not his oak.

1835, Scriblerus Redivivus [pseudonym; Edward Caswall], “Topics Concerning Pluck”, in A New Art Teaching How to be Plucked, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: J. Vincent, →OCLC, pages 34–35:

One day that he had been writing a letter in Mr. Smalls' rooms, which were on the ground-floor, Verdant congratulated himself that his own rooms were on the third floor, and were thus removed from the possibility of his friends, when he had sported his oak, being able to get through his window to "chaff" him; but he soon discovered that rooms upstairs had also objectionable points in their private character, and were not altogether such eligible apartments as he had at first anticipated.

1853, Cuthbert Bede [pseudonym; Edward Bradley], “Mr. Verdant Green’s Sports and Pastimes”, in The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman, London: Nathaniel Cooke, […], →OCLC, page 104:

My rooms are pleasant enough,[…], and separated from all mankind by a great, iron-clamped, outer door, my oak, which I sport when I go out, or want to be quiet; […]

1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “St. Ambrose’s College”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 1st, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 11:

The custom of sporting one's oak, which is so popular an institution in the English Universities, is destined apparently to become an exotic in Cambridge. […] In England, to sport the oak is considered an act eminently proper and commendable; but we seem to think it is a habit destructive of our college freedom. If a visitor obtains no response to his tenth kick, cannot he take the hint that his company is not desirable at present and move off quietly, without informing the occupant of the said room that he knows he is there, and that he cannot see the reason why he is refused admittance.

1871 December 8, Auspex [pseudonym], “Sporting the Oak”, in The Harvard Advocate, volume XII, number V, Cambridge, Mass.: Editors of The Harvard Advocate, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 71:

"Goodness gracious," I exclaimed, "why didn't we sport the oak? Perhaps it is your father. But surely he would hardly come at this time of day! Go at once into my bedroom."

1873–1884 (date written), Samuel Butler, chapter LXX, in R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfeild, editor, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, →OCLC, page 317:

Blankets were served out to hang in the front of the cubicle [in Shackleton's Hut at Cape Royds, Antarctica], in case the inhabitants wanted at any time to "sport their oak."

1909, E[rnest] H[enry] Shackleton, “First Days in Winter Quarters”, in The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907–1909 […], volume I, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 143:

The man who now occupied my room had sported his oak—my oak. I read the name on the visiting-card attached thereto—E. J. Craddock—and went in.

1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, chapter XII, in Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published 1912, →OCLC, page 194:

[H]e recreated something like Balliol on the prairies. He brewed tea each afternoon on his "spirit lamp" (sold at the student co-op as an alcohol burner), kept Scotch-type whisky in his cupboard, "tutored" with a Jewish boy from Brooklyn (actually the boy ghosted all his science and math work), and "sported the oak" when, as Clem conjectured later, he required a session of masturbation to the tune of Beardsley illustrations.

1961, R[onald] V[erlin] Cassill, chapter 4, in Clem Anderson, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 123:

Mrs. Biggs let herself into Zipser's room and sported the oak. She had no intention of being disturbed.

1974, Tom Sharpe, chapter 9, in Porterhouse Blue, 1st American edition, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, →ISBN, page 95:

'And I'd feel particularly vulnerable, if I was on the ground floor like you.' / 'You could sport your oak, I suppose. But sporting your oak is said not to be quite the thing. It's felt not to be on, sporting your oak.'

1975, J[ohn] I[nnes] M[ackintosh] Stewart, chapter III, in Young Pattullo […] (A Staircase in Surrey; 2), London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 76:

We were turned at a slight angle to each other, our shoulders touching and I put my hand on his crotch. Miles seemed to be expecting it. He chuckled, took a pair of compasses and jammed them into the door above the latch. This was called ‘sporting the oak’ and was the recognized way of locking oneself in. Over the next eighteen months we sported our oaks with great frequency.

1984, Hallam Tennyson, “Needful Parts”, in The Haunted Mind: An Autobiography, London: André Deutsch, →ISBN, page 46:

sport timber

[[Inn of Court|Inns of Court]], obsolete

(intransitive, originally and chiefly British, university slang, dated) To close one's door (originally the outer door of one's set of rooms in a college) as an indication that visitors are not welcome.

sulkea ovi

to close one’s door as an indication that visitors are not welcome


bejan

From French béjaune (“freshman”), from bec jaune (“yellow beak”), in allusion to young birds.

They'd been at it, say and night, for four years – only to be shown up by a snivelling little wimp of a bejan.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 215:

(now historical) A freshman at various Scottish and continental universities.


great go

en-noun

great go (plural great gos or great goes)

Though for Great Go and for Small, I teach Paley, cram and all.

Yes, Mr. Lowe has been plucked for his Great Go.

(UK, university slang, dated) The final examination for a degree.


little go

little go (plural little gos or little goes)

little gos (plural)
little goes (plural)

(UK, university slang, dated) The preliminary examination for a degree.


ability grouping

The practice of putting students together in groups of those with similar skills or needs, e.g. in classes or in groups within a class.


NAPLAN

(Australia, education) Initialism of National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy.


SHS

senior high school
senior high school#English

(Philippines, education) Initialism of senior high school.


technological university

technological university (plural technological universities)

(education) A university specialising in the study of engineering, science and technology.


MACOS

(US, UK, Australia, education) Man: A Course of Study. A controversial education programme in the 1970s.


SEMP

(Australia, historical, education) Acronym of Social Education Materials Project.

(Australia, education) Acronym of School Environmental Management Plan.


NATFHE

w:National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education

(UK) Initialism of National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education.


coursepack

(education) A set of photocopied documents or other materials to be given to students as part of a course of study.


UST

University of Santo Tomas
w:University of Santo Tomas

(Philippines, education) Initialism of University of Santo Tomas.


Gonski

* Named after the reporting committee's chairman, David Gonski.

(Australia, education, informal) The Gonski Report, a series of recommendations regarding funding for education in Australia.


free period

A school period in which a student has free time, i.e., is not enrolled in a class.

hyppytunti

a school period in which a student has free time, i.e., is not enrolled in a class


sage on the stage

sage on the stage (plural sages on the stage or sages on stages)

sages on the stage (plural)
sages on stages (plural)

Mrs. Johnson said the teacher for the gifted and talented will be more of a "guide on the side" rather than a "sage on the stage."

1981 August 6, “‘Gifted Students’ Classes Offered”, in Harlan Daily Enterprise, USA, retrieved 2013-09-01, page 5:

Case Western has always been an advocate of what Williams calls the "sage on the stage versus the guide on the side" learning method.

2006 August 25, Nina Vizcarrondo, “Sci-Fi Today, Sci-Fact Tomorrow”, in Time, retrieved 2013-09-01:

But the limitations of the method as usually employed — . . . its fostering of passivity on the part of those students not involved in the dialogue, and its privileging of the professor as the sage on the stage — are serious impediments.

2011 December 15, Robert D. Dinerstein, “Limitations to the Method”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-09-01:

(education, sometimes mildly derogatory) An educator, especially at the postsecondary level, who imparts knowledge by lecturing to an audience; the method of imparting knowledge used by such an educator.


guide on the side

guide on the side (plural guides on the side)

Skousen, a chemist's daughter, directs her third-graders to conduct hands-on experiments — her force and motion unit is particularly popular — with self-discovery as their learning compass. "I act as the mentor, the guide on the side," Skousen said.

2005 April 13, Jennifer Toomer-Cook, “2 Utah teachers win presidential awards”, in Deseret Morning News, retrieved 2013-09-01:

(education) An educator whose method is to provide students with occasional advice, assistance, and correction while allowing them to explore a subject area independently or by interacting among themselves; this educational method itself.


Montessori

en-adj

Montessori (comparative more Montessori, superlative most Montessori)

more Montessori (comparative)
most Montessori (superlative)

From the surname of the founder Maria Montessori.

Of or relating to the Montessori education method developed by Italian physician Maria Montessori.

蒙特梭利的

of or relating to the Montessori Method of Education