Education-vocabulary
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100

Subjects that are characteristic and essential for a given programme of study and for which examinations are to be taken.

Compulsory subjects

100

A school in which people learn how to do a job that requires special skills

Vocational school

100

Something that is very simple or easy

As easy as ABCs

100

going to school, studying or being taught

To get an education

200

Disorders that affect the ability to understand or use spoken or written language, do mathematical calculations, coordinate movements, or direct attention.

To have learning disability

200

A system of education in which boys and girls learn together in the same school or college at the same time

A co-educational school

200

A child or young person who thinks and talks like an older person who has more life expe

AN OLD HEAD ON YOUNG SHOULDERS

200

to show academic progress/education achievement

to demonstrate academic achievements (gains-informal)

300

An education that includes many areas, for example music, the arts, and social and physical skills

to give a well-rounded education

300

A school for young children, particularly those between the ages of three and five.


A nursery school

300

Giving someone recognition for trying hard to do something even though they may not be successful

"A" FOR EFFORT

300

To work your way through university

to have a paid job while studying to support yourself financial

400

Study very hard, especially when you are preparing for an examination

to swot for an exam

400

Any higher education undertaken after a bachelor's degree.

Postgraduate education

400

to be expelled from an institution because of low grades or poor performance

FLUNK/FAIL OUT

400

To move fast or work hard to reach someone or something that is ahead of you

CATCH UP TO (SOMEONE OR SOMETHING)

500

A system for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training

Apprenticeship

500

What are the formal and non-formal types of educational foundations?

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500

to pay one’s own tuition

TO PUT ONESELF THROUGH SCHOOL

500

The ability of people to have equal opportunity in education, regardless of their social class, race, gender

Access To Education

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