| Laissez-passer | let somebody pass |
| Equality of opportunity | when everyone has the same chances |
| Selective | pupils take exams for entry |
| Comprehensive | everyone enters without exams |
| Schooling | education received at school |
| Elitism | when you favour a small privileged group |
| Inherent in | existing as a basic part of sth |
| League tables | lists of schools or colleges from the best down to the worst |
| Perpetuate | make sth continue forever |
| Two-tier system | a system with two separate levels |
| Perceive | see, consider |
| Better-off | richer |
| Well-endowed | receiving a lot of money in grants, gifts from rich people etc |
| Depressing | reducing |
| Less well-off | poorer |
| Excel | achieve an excellent standard |
| The three Rs | reading, writing, arithmetic |
| Literacy | the ability to read |
| Numeracy | the ability to count/do basic math |
| Curriculum reform | changes the educational programme |
| Lifelong/continuing education | education for ages |
| Mature students | adult students, older that average student |
| Special needs education | education for children who cannot learn in the normal way |
| One-to-one | one teacher and one pupil, not a group |
| Bullying | frightening or threating |
| PTA | komitet rodzicielski |
| School governors | group which oversees all the business of the school |
| Supply teacher | teacher who works in a school when needed (eg. if someone is sick) |
| Peripatetic teacher | teacher who works in different schools and travel between them |
| Revise/cram | study intensively for a short time |
| Past papers | exam papers from previous years |
| Memorized/learnt by heart | nauka na pamięć |
| Rote-learning | learning purely by the repetition |
| Mnemonics | tricks that help you remember something |
| Bury yourself in your books | spend the maximum time studying |
| Know the subject inside out | know it completely |
| Mind-map | diagram that lays out ideas for the topic and how they are connected to one another |
| First draft | first, rough version |
| Plagiarism | using other people’s work as if it was yours |
| Deadline | date by which you must hand in the work |
| Submitted | handed in (formal) |
| Assessed | evaluated and given a grade |
| Feedback | comments from the teacher/tutor |
| Carry out | less formal “do” |
| Inter-library loan | system where libraries exchange books/journals with one another) |
| Cram | wepchąć |
| Labeled | zostać oznakowanym |
