Glossário

National Record of Achievement.

These take children from the age of three or four and are open during school term time. They usually offer five half-day sessions a week. There must be one adult for every 13 children and staff are qualified teachers and assistants.

National Union of Teachers.

National Vocational Qualification

OCA
Ofsted Complaints Adjudicator.

Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations Board.

Office for Standards in Education
An official body which regularly inspects all the schools in England which are mainly or wholly state funded. Ofsted inspectors produce education reports which are meant to improve standards of achievement and quality of education, provide public reporting and informed independent advice.

Often referred to as those rules applied by admission authorities when a school has more applications than places. They must by law be fair and objective and must be published annually in prospectuses and by local authorities in a prospectus explaining admissions at all schools in an area.

Performance and Assessment Reports
Produced by the Office For Standards in Education (Ofsted) and issued annually to schools. The contents of each PANDA report are confidential between Ofsted, the school, and the local authority, although schools are free to disseminate the information as they see fit.

Professional Association of Teachers.