Spending on the day-to-day running of schools, including staff costs, heating and lighting, consumables and so on; sometimes called recurrent expenditure.

A register is called at the beginning of the morning session and once during the afternoon. It must contain the names of all the pupils that attend a school.

The details, in alphabetical order, of all pupils that attend a school.

One who gives specialist instruction in a number of schools, for example, in music.

Pupils registered at a school.

A list of codes used by the Department for Education (DfE), which schools that are on the School Census are required to use when recording attendance and absence.

Publicly funded independent schools established under Section 482 of the Education Act 1996.

NB Ofsted’s key definition of achievement was revised in September 2009. Achievement now takes into account the standards of attainment reached by pupils and the progress they have made to reach those standards.  Attainment: this is the standard of academic attainment, typically shown by test and examination results. Progress: this is the extent [..]

The DfE publishes tables that provide a reliable and easily accessible source of comparative information. The tables report achievements for primary school pupils at the end of Key Stage 2. The secondary (Key Stage 4) tables report the GCSE (and equivalent) achievements of pupils at the end of Key Stage 4. (See also English Baccalaureate.) The post [..]

Local Authorities (LAs) are admission authorities with responsibility for admissions to community and voluntary controlled schools.