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  • BIS - Department for Business, Information and Skills (UK government department with responsibility for FE, HE, training and skills, and science).
  • CRB - Criminal Records Bureau (organisation responsible for protecting vulnerable people, to work with children you must pass a CRB check).
  • DCSF - Department for Schools, Children and Families (UK government department).
  • FE - further education (post-16 education and training that takes place in a college).
  • GTP - Graduate Teacher Programme (school-based entry route into teaching for those with a degree).
  • GTTR - Graduate Teacher Training Registry (application body for postgraduate teacher training courses).
  • HE - higher education (education that takes place in a higher education institution either a university or specialist college).
  • HEI - higher education institution (universities and HE colleges).
  • ITT - initial teacher training.
  • LA - local authority (previously known as LEAs – local education authorities, LAs own school properties and fund education).
  • LSA - learning support assistant (LSAs also known as Teaching Assistants give support to teachers in the classroom).
  • NQT - newly qualified teacher (a teacher in their first year after study who is still to complete their induction).
  • PGCE - postgraduate certificate of education (HE based postgraduate study in education).
  • PGDE - Professional Graduate Diploma of Education (Scotland).
  • QTS - qualified teacher status (awarded after your NQT and shows you have met the required professional standards).
  • RTP - registered teacher programme (two-year training programme for those who have been in HE for at least two years).
  • SATs - Standard Attainment Tests.
  • SCITT - school-centred initial teacher training (graduate course in teaching based at a school, not an HEI).
  • TEFL - teaching English as a foreign language (in the UK or overseas to people whose first language is not English; also known as ELT, English Language Teaching).
  • TESOL - teaching English as a second language (in the UK to people whose first language is not English but who live in the UK).
 
 
 
AGCAS
Written by Ed Riddick, Northumbria University
Date: 
October 2009
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