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

AEA

Australia Education Act

AGEID

Australian Government Education ID number

ANAO

Australian National Audit Office

ASL

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

ARC

Audit and Risk Committee

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

DESE

Department of Education, Skills and Employment (federal)

DET or DoE

NSW Department of Education (state)

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

DSP

Disadvantaged Schools Program

DSO

Diocese School Office

EAL/D

English as an additional language or dialect

EF

Educational Facility

EOI

Expression of Interests (Mostly used by CBGA)

ESA

Education Services Australia (a DESE subsidiary)

ESL

English as a second language

ICSEA

Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage

IEP

Individual Education Plan

IESIP

Indigenous Education Strategic Initiatives Program

IEU

Independent Education Union

KLA

Key Learning Area

LGA

Local Government Area

MCEETYA

Ministerial Council on Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs

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 (state)

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

Religious Institute/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 (what students work through in Years 9-11 to get towards the 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