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Teaching and education : Jargon buster

Teaching and education: Jargon buster

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  • BIS - Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. UK government department with responsibility for further education (FE), higher education (HE), training and skills.
  • CRB - Criminal Records Bureau. Organisation in England and Wales responsible for protecting vulnerable people.
  • CTLLS - Certificate in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector.
  • DfE - Department for Education. UK government department responsible for primary and secondary education.
  • DTLLS - Diploma in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector.
  • 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.
  • NQT - newly qualified teacher. A teacher in their first year after study who is still to complete their induction.
  • OFSTED - Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills. The official body for inspecting schools.
  • PGCE - Postgraduate Certificate in Education.
  • PGDE - Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (Scotland).
  • PTLLS - Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (qualification).
  • QAA - the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education.
  • QTLS - qualified teacher learning and skills. Obtained after successfully completing a recognised initial teacher training course for the lifelong learning sector, e.g. the PGCE Post-Compulsory Education and Training (PCET) or PGCE Lifelong Learning Sector.
  • QTS - qualified teacher status. Obtained after successfully completing a course of initial teacher training for schools, e.g. the PGCE.
  • SCITT - school-centred initial teacher training. Graduate course in teaching based at a school, not at an HEI.
  • SEN - special educational needs.
  • TEFL - teaching English as a foreign language (in the UK or overseas to people whose first language is not English).
  • TESOL - teaching English as a second language (to people whose first language is not English but who live in the UK).
 
 
 
AGCAS
Written by Sue Spence, University of Huddersfield
Date: 
November 2011
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