Education Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Education Acronyms

• EO — Education Otherwise
• EO — Equal Opportunities
• EOTAS — Education Other than at School
• EP — Educational Psychologist
• EPAS — Educational Performance Analysis System (privided to LAS by the NCER)
• EPM — Education Plan Monitoring
• EPT — Educational Psychology Team
• ERA — Education Reform Act
• ESF — European Social Fund
• ESOL — English for Speakers of Other Languages
• ESW — Education Social Worker
• EU — European Union
• EWO — Education Welfare Officer
• EYCS — Early Years and Childcare Service
• EYDCP — Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership
• EYDP — Early Years Development Plan
• EYFSP — Early Years Foundation Stage Programme
• FAETC — Further and Adult Education Training Certificate
• FAP — Fair Access Protocol
• FE — Further Education
• FEFC — Further Education Funding Council
• FEX — Fixed Term Exclusions from school
• FF — Fair Funding
• FFS — Farms for Schools
• FFT — Fischer Family Trust (a charity that provides estimates of pupil performance)
• FL — Family Learning
• FLLN — Family Literacy, Language and Numeracy
• FMS — Financial Management System (Capita)
• FOI — Freedom of Information (Act)
• FORM 7 — DfE form sent every January requesting school statistics (replaced by PLASC which has, in turn, been replaced by School Census from January 2007)
• FRESA — Framework for Regional Employment and Skills Action
• FRS — Fire and Rescue Service
• FS — Foundation Stage
• FSA — Financial Services Authority
• FSM — Free School Meals
• FSP — Foundation Stage Profile
• FSS — Formula Spending Share
• FTE — Full Time Equivalent
• G&T — Gifted and Talented
• GBA — Governing Bodies Association
• GCE A — General Certificate of Education Advanced Level
• GCE AS — General Certificate of Education Advanced Supplementary
• GCSE — General Certificate of Secondary Education
• GLD — Good level of development (an Early Years judgement)
• GM — Grant Maintained
• GNVQ — General National Vocational Qualification
• GOYH — Government Office of Yorkshire and Humberside
• GSA — Girls’ School Association
• GSB — General Schools Budget
• GTC — General Teaching Council
• H&S — Health and Safety
• HACSG — Hyperactive Children’s Support Group
• HE — Higher Education
• HEADLAMP — The Headteachers’ Leadership and Management Programme
• HEFC — Higher Education Funding Council
• HESA — Higher Education Statistics Agency
• HiMP — Health Improvement Plan
• HIP — Headteachers’ Induction Programme (now replaced by EHP)
• HMC — Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference
• HMCI — Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector
• HMI — Her Majesty’s Inspector(ate)
• HMM — Healthy Minds Matter
• HMSO — Her Majesty’s Stationery Office
• HODs — Heads of Departments
• HRF — Health Related Fitness
• HSE — Health and Safety Executive
• HT — Headteacher
• IB — International Baccalaureate
• ICS — Integrated Children’s System
• ICT — Information and Communications Technology
• IEC — Interfaith Education Centre
• IEP — Individual Education Plan
• IfL — Institute for Learning
• IiC — Investors in Children
• IIP — Investors in People
• ILP — Individual Learning Plan
• ILR — Individual Learner Record
• ILS — Integrated Learning Systems
• INSET — In-service Education and Training
• IRT — The Identification, Referral and Tracking of children and young people at risk
• IS Index — Information Sharing Index
• ISA — Information Sharing and Assessment
• ISA — Independent Schools Association
• ISB — Individual Schools Budget (i.e. the delegated budget for each school)
• ISC — Independent Schools Council
• ISEB — Independent Schools Examination Board
• ISI — Independent Schools Inspectorate
• ISIS — Independent Schools Information Service
• ISP — Integrated Service Plan
• ISR — Individual School Range
• IT — Information Technology
• ITT — Initial Teacher Training
• IYSS — Integrated Youth Support Service
• JAR — Joint Area Review
• JCQ — Joint Council for Qualifications
• KeyPas — End of Key Stage results (not KS4) analysis tool provided by the NCER – see also EPAS
• KS — Key Stage
• KS1 — Key Stage 1 Years 1-2 (5 – 7 year olds)
• KS2 — Key Stage 2 Years 3-6 (8 – 11 year olds)
• KS3 — Key Stage 3 Years 7-9 (12-14 year olds)