Chapter 2: Education – Debates and Issues Vocabulary. Chapter 3: Applying for a Job Vocabulary

Selective

Pupils are chosen for entry, usually for academic reasons

Comprehensive

Everyone enters without exams; free, government-funded education

Schooling

Education received at school

Elitism

Favouring a small privileged group

Perpetuate

To make something continue

Perceives

Sees or considers

Better off

Richer

Well endowed

Receiving a lot of money in grants or donations

Depressing

Reducing

Less well off

Poorer

Excel

Achieve an excellent standard

Bursaries

Scholarships usually provided based on financial need

Tertiary

Education at university or college level

The three R's

Basic primary education: reading, writing, arithmetic

Literacy

The ability to read and write

Numeracy

The ability to use numbers and do mathematics

Curriculum

A set of courses, coursework, and their content

Provision

An amount or thing supplied or provided

Degree

Certificate for undergraduates

Guidelines

Advice on how to do something

Openings

Available job position

Post

Job

Subsided

Partly paid for by the company