Education Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Education Acronyms

• PLP — Primary Leadership Programme
• PO — Project Officer
• PoCA — Protection of Children Act
• PoS — Programmes of Study (in National Curriculum)
• PPA — Pre-school Playgroups Association
• PRB — Performance Review Board
• PRC — Pupil Referral Centre
• PRP — Performance Related Pay
• PRU — Pupil Referral Unit
• PSA — Parent School Association
• PSE — Personal and Social Education
• PSHE — Personal, Social and Health Education
• PSHE+C — Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education
• PSS — Pupil and Student Services Group
• PTA — Parent Teacher Association
• PTR — Pupil Teacher Ratio
• QA — Quality Assurance
• QAA — Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
• QAN — Qualification Accreditation Number
• QCA — Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
• QTA — Qualified Teacher Status
• QTPS — Qualified Teachers Pay Spine
• QTS — Qualified Teacher Status
• R (Y1, Y2 etc) — Reception (Year 1 etc)
• RARPA — Recognising and recording progress and achievement
• RDA — Regional Development Agency
• RE — Religious Education
• READS — Racial Equality and Diversity Service
• Reg 33 — Regulation 33 relation to the inspection of children’s homes
• RgI — Registered Inspector
• RoA — Record of Achievement
• RSA — Royal Society of Arts Examination Board
• RSU — Research and Statistics Unit
• s2s — School to school secure data transfer system
• SACRE — Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education
• SAR — Self Assessment Report
• SATs — Standard Assessment Task/Test
• SCC — School causing concern
• School Census — Pupil level statistics collected termly by DfE
• SCR — Single Central Record
• SDP — School Development Plan
• SEF — School self-evaluation form issued by Ofsted
• SEMT — School Emergency Management Team
• SEN — Special Educational Needs
• SENCO — Special Educational Needs Coordinator
• SENDA — Special Educational Needs Discrimination Act
• SEP — Single Education Plan
• SEU — Standards and Effectiveness Unit
• SFR — Statistical First Release (DfE data release)
• SHA — Secondary Heads Association
• SHMIS — Society of Headmasters and Headmistresses of Independent Schools
• SIMS — Schools Information Management System (provided by Capita)
• SIP — School Improvement Partner
• SLA — Service Level Agreement
• SLC — Student Loans Company
• SLD — Severe Learning Difficulty
• SM — Special Measures
• SMART — Smart, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-scaled targets
• SMSC — Spiritual Moral Social Cultural
• SMT — Senior Management Team
• SN — Standard Number (replaced PAL – Planned Admission Level
• SOP — School Organisation Plan
• SoS — Secretary of State
• Soulbury — Pay scale for education staff
• SoW — Scheme of Work
• SPAW — School Performance Award Scheme
• SpLD — Specific Learning Difficulty
• SRB — Single Regeneration Budget
• SRS — Safer Routes to Schools
• SSA — Standard Spending Assessment
• SSCO — School Support Coordinators
• SSE — School Self Evaluation
• SSF — School Standards Fund
• SSFA — School Standards and Framework Act 1998
• SSM — Strategic Support Managers (BMDC)
• STABIS — State Boarding School Information Service
• STRB — School Teachers’ Review Body
• SURE Start — Sure Start is a government programme bringing together, early education, childcare, health and family support agencies
• SW — Serious Weaknesses
• TEFL — Teaching English as a Foreign Language
• TES — Times Educational Supplement
• TP — Teachers’ Pensions
• TSC — Transactional Services Centre (BMDC)
• TTA — Teacher Training Agency
• TUC — Trade Union Congress
• UCAS — University and Colleges Admissions Service
• UfA — University of the First Age
• ULN — Unique Learner Number
• UPN — Unique Pupil Number
• VA — Voluntary Aided
• VC — Voluntary Controlled
• VRQ — Verbal Reasoning Quotient
• WEA — Workers Educational Association
• WBL — Work Based Learning
• WYLP — West Yorkshire Learning Providers
• Y1, Y2 etc — Year 1, Year 2 etc
• YELLIS — Year 11 Indicator System
• YIST — Youth Inclusion and Support Team
• YPLA — Youg Person’s Learning Agency
• YOT (or S) — Youth Offending Team (or Service)