A
- A2
- Advanced 2 level — Examinations are what used to be known as the familiar 'full' A-level. They are the 'gold standard' of post-16 educational excellence; they will continue to be the preferred route into higher education for students intending to take academic as opposed to vocational (work-related) courses at university or college.
- AAT
- Association of Accounting Technicians
- ABRSM
- Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music
- AS level
- Advanced Subsidurary level — The Advanced (Subsidiary) Level GCE examination is generally regarded by universities and employers as the equivalent of half a 'full' A-level. Students take AS level examinations in their first year of the Sixth Form.
- AVCE
- Advanced Vocational Certificate of Education — Vocational qualification now withdrawn. The current VCE qualifications will be awarded for the last time in June 2006 with a re-sit
opportunity on the externally assessed units only in January 2007.
B
- BAFTA
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts — http://www.bafta.org/
- Bitmap
- Also known as a raster graphics image, see Wikipedia entry for bitmap
- BTEC
- Business and Technical Education Council
C
- CTC
- City Technology College
- CTC Trading Company
- CTC Trading Company — Corby CTC Trading Ltd is a subsidiary company of Brooke Weston City Technology College and specialises in Education, Business and Leisure. See their website.
- CAD
- Computer Aided Design
- CAM
- Computer Aided Manufacturing
D
- DfES
- Department for Education and Skills
- DofE
- Duke of Edinburgh's Award — More information about the Duke of Edinburgh's award can be found on their website.
- DTP
- Desktop Publishing
E
- Edexcel
- The UK's largest awarding body and a part of Pearson plc. Edexcel Website
- EHIC
- European Health Insurance Card — Needed by College students attending residentials. This is the replacement for the old E111 form. More information about the EHIC can be found on their website European Health Insurance Card (EHIC)
- EMA
- Education Maintenance Allowance — EMA is a weekly financial allowance to help you get more qualifications or vocational skills after 16. See the EMA website.
- EMYLG
- East Midlands Youth Libraries Group
- EPC
- Equipment for the Physically Challenged
- et al
- Latin abbreviation of 'et alia' — meaning 'and others', commonly used in bibliographies when citing a source with more than one author.
F
- FMP
- Final Major Project — A major piece of work that submitted for courses like BTEC Music Technology.
G
- GCE
- General Certificate of Education
- GCSE
- General Certificate of Secondary Education
- GNVQ
- General National Vocational Qualification
H
- HMSO
- Her Majesty's Stationery Office — Its core activities including responsibility for the publication of legislation and the management of Crown copyright.
- HND
- Higher National Diploma
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language — The language used for writing webpages and websites.
I
- ICT
- Information Communications Technology
- IIP
- Investors in People
- IPTC
- International Press Telecommunications Council — The IPTC is a consortium of the world's major news agencies and news industry vendors. It develops and maintains technical standards for improved news exchange that are used by virtually every major news organization in the world.
- ISO
- International Stardards Organisation — ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 157 countries, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system. ISO Website
J
- je ne sais quoi
- a French phrase meaning – 'a certain indefinable quality'
K
- KBC
- Kettering Borough Council
- KS3
- Key Stage 3
- KS4
- Key Stage 4
L
- LEA
- Local Education Authority
- LRE
- Learning Resources for Education – the county's school library service provided by Northamptonshire Libraries and Information Service.
M
- MA
- Master of Arts
- MCP
- Microsoft Certified Professional
- MCSA
- Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
- MCSE
- Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
- Mr.
- Mister — in English, a polite form of address for a man.
- MUFTI
- Civilian dress, especially when worn by one who normally wears a uniform
N
- NLRE
- Northants Learning Resources in Education
O
- OCR
- Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations — OCR was formed in 1998 from the University of Cambridge Local Examination Syndicate and RSA, which means that OCR offers an extremely broad range of qualifications. OCR Website
- OfSTED
- Office for Standards in Education
P
- PDF
- Portable Document Format
- PHSE
- Personal Health and Social Education
- PIC
- Programmable Integrated Circuit
Q
R
- Rich Text Format
- The Rich Text Format — a document file format that was developed by Microsoft for cross platform compatability. Most word processors are able to read and write RTF documents. Unlike most of the word processing formats, RTF is human-readable.
- Roman Numerals
- a system of numbers commonly used for referring to reigns of monarchs, centuries, and in musical notation; each letter has a value (e.g. I=1, V=5, X=10, L=50, C=100, etc.), and the total value for the number is the sum of its component letters (e.g. XII = 10 1 1 = 12); when a letter comes before another letter of a greater value (e.g. XL), the value of the lower-valued letter is subtracted from the value of the immediately following letter (e.g. XL = 40, XLIII = 43)
- RSS
- Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0) — a collection of formats for 'feeding' information via the internet.
S
- SAT
- Scholastic Aptitude Test
- SEN
- Special Educational Needs
- SENCO
- Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator
- SLASC
- School Level Annual School Census
- SSCo
- School Sports Co-ordinators
- SWF
- Small Web Format — A vector based web format developed by Adobe, sometimes pronounced it as "swiff"
T
- TES
- Times Educational Supplement
U
V
- VCE
- Vocational Certificate of Education
W
- WJEC
- Welsh Joint Education Committee
X
Y
Z
Numbers
Symbols
- @tain
- @tain is the trading name for company that publishes Brooke Weston's online courses, their products include; GNVQ and DiDA Qualifications, and ePortfolio Manager. More information can be found at their website: www.atain.co.uk
Last Updated: Wednesday, 18 January, 2006
Author: JHE
