Acronyms and Abbreviations

ABS

Australian Bureau of Statistics

ACARA

Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (federal)
https://www.acara.edu.au/home My School

ACE

Assessment Certification Examinations (NSW)

AEA

Australia Education Act

AEDC

Australian Early Development Census

AGDoE

Australian Department of Education. Previously known as DESE and DEEWR

AGEID

Australian Government Education school identifier

ANAO

Australian National Audit Office

ARC

Audit and Risk Committee

ASL

Australian Schools List - maintained by ACARA: to export all Australia schools
https://asl.acara.edu.au/School-Search

ATP

Assisted Training Platform - DoE login required

ATSI

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
This label is more and more being replaced with “First Nations People”

BGA

Block Grant Authority

BOSTES

Board of Studies Teaching and Educational Standards

CEnet

Catholic Education Network

CEO

Catholic Education Office

CEWA

Catholic Education Western Australia

CGP

Capital Grant Program

CSNSW

Catholic Schools New South Wales

CSO

Catholic Schools Office

DMI

Direct Measure of Income.
This relates to “SES“. Visit this link Please get more understanding from https://www.dese.gov.au/quality-schools-package/fact-sheets/what-direct-measure-income

DoE

NSW Department of Education (state). Previously known as DET or DEC.

DSP

Disadvantaged Schools Program

DSO

Diocese School Office

EAL/D

English as an additional language or dialect

EF

Educational Facility

EMM

Education Ministers Meeting. Previously MCEEDYA and MCEETYA.

EREA

Edmund Rice Education Australia

EOI

Expression of Interests (Mostly used by CBGA)

ESA

Education Services Australia (government-owned provider of educational resources and technology)

ESL

English as a second language. No longer used - replaced with EAL/D

ICSEA

Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage

IDRAC

Inter-diocesan Registration and Accreditation Committee

IEP

Individual Education Plan

IESIP

Indigenous Education Strategic Initiatives Program

IEU

Independent Education Union

KLA

Key Learning Area

LGA

Local Government Area

MSDS

My School data set

NADAR

National Assessment, Data, Analysis and Reporting

NAPLAN

National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy

NCCD

National Consistent Collection of Data for Students with Disabilities

NCEC

National Catholic Education Commission
https://www.ncec.catholic.edu.au/

NDIS

National Disability Insurance Scheme

NESA

NSW Education Standards Authority. Replaced BOSTES and previously the Board of Studies.

OOHC

Out Of Home Care (students that are under the care of the Minister)

PGM

Program Grant Management

PIA

Privacy Impact Assessment

PLP

Personalised Learning Plan

PP

Personalised Planning (also be referred to as IEP or PLP)

PPSD

Personalised Planning for Students with Disabilities

PRC

Premier’s Reading Challenge - DoE login required

QDTP

Quality Differentiated Teaching Practice (this is one of the levels of adjustments for the NCCD)

RI/PJP
or
RI/MPJP

Religious Institute/[Ministerial] Public Juridic Person
These are basically all our independent catholic schools (not diocesan and also known as non-systemic schools)

RoSA

Record of School Achievement - awarded to a student that has completed the mandatory requirements for years 7-10 but is not eligible for an HSC.

SBD

student background data

SEA

Socio-Educational Advantage

SES

Socio-economic status
This is a measure of the capacity of a non-government school community to contribute to the recurrent costs of the school and it affects the amount of base per-student funding that the school attracts from the Commonwealth.

SSOT

Single Source of Truth

Systemic

Refers to our diocesan system schools

VET

Vocational Education and Training