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.

Pupils registered at a school.

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

The National Challenge programme aims to tackle the link between deprivation and attainment, making every secondary school a good school, committed to achieving the best possible outcomes for its pupils. It sets an ambitious benchmark for schools to achieve – at least 30 per cent of Key Stage 4 pupils achieving five A*–C grade GCSEs including Engli [..]

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

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 to [..]

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 [..]