The future of Jewish schooling in the United Kingdom:
Educational and Judaic glossary
Author(s): Oliver Valins, Barry Kosmin and Jacqueline Goldberg
Published: Tuesday 31 Dec 2002
Report contents
Primary and secondary school education in the United Kingdom
The system(s) and the users of Jewish day school education
Educational assessment of general subjects in Jewish day schools
Educational assessment of Judaic subjects in Jewish day schools
Key strategic issues facing central Orthodox and Progressive Jewish day schools
Key strategic issues facing strictly Orthodox schools
Jewish day school provision for children with special educational needs (SEN)
The educational marketplace: how Jewish parents choose between different schools
Towards the future of Jewish day schooling
Educational and Judaic glossary
AGNVQ Advanced General National Vocational Qualification
AJE Agency for Jewish Education
AJ6 Association of Jewish Sixth Formers
AQA Assessment and Qualifications Alliance
bar mitzvah religious ceremony for males age 13
bat mitzvah/bat chayil religious ceremony for females age 12
Binoh Norwood-Ravenswood SEN referral agency
cheder part-time, supplementary religious Jewish education
chumash Pentateuch in book form
CJE Centre for Jewish Education
daven to pray
DfEE/DfES Department for Education and Employment, now known as the Department for Education and Skills
dinim Jewish laws
FTE full-time equivalent teachers
GCE A General Certificate of Education, Advanced Level
GCE AS General Certificate of Education, Advanced Supplementary
GCSE General Certificate of Secondary Education
gemarrah talmudic religious text
GNVQ General National Vocational Qualification
GTP Graduate Teacher Programme
halachah Jewish law
HMI Her Majesty's Inspectorate
IAPS Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools
ISC Independent Schools Council
ISI Independent Schools Inspectorate
IT/ICT Information Technology/Information Communication Technology
Ivrit modern Hebrew
JAMS Jewish Activities in Mainstream Schools
JSSM Jewish Secondary Schools Movement
JTTP Jewish Teacher Training Partnership
ketubah Jewish marriage certificate
Key stages:
- ages 5-7, National Curriculum years 1 and 2
- ages 7-11, National Curriculum years 3 to 6
- ages 11-14, National Curriculum years 7 to 9
- ages 14-16, National Curriculum years 10 and 11
kippot head coverings for Jewish males
kollel college of advanced rabbinical studies
LEA Local Education Authority
minchah afternoon prayers
MLD Moderate Learning Difficulty
National Curriculum required subject teaching in state schools
OCR Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations
OFSTED Office for Standards in Education
PE Physical Education
PGCE Postgraduate Certificate of Education
PTA Parent-Teacher Association
QTS Qualified Teacher Status
RTP Registered Teacher Programme
SACRE Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education
SATs Standard Attainment Tests
SCIT School Centred Initial Teacher Training Programme
SEN special educational needs
SENCO Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator
shacharit morning prayers
shidduchim 'arranged' marriages
shomer shabbat/shobbes observant of the religious laws of the Sabbath
tzitsit literally 'fringes', religious garment worn under the shirt of males
UJIA United Jewish Israel Appeal
yahrzeit commemoration of the anniversary of the death of a parent, sibling or child
yeshivot institutes of higher learning for males
yichus status in the strictly Orthodox community
Yom Kippur Day of Atonement