Key terms & definitions

Efforts by different Christian denominations to develop closer relationships, understanding and unity.

An emerging and developing country: a country whose economy is developing, often with growing manufacturing, exports and average incomes.

A Crusader city and county whose capture by Zangi in December 1144 prompted calls for the Second Crusade.

A line where two faces of a solid meet; for a cube, every edge has the same length.

A line segment forming a boundary of a solid, often where two faces meet.

A treatment that secures a cut fabric edge against fraying and gives it a neater appearance.

Applying dye or ink to the cut edges of paper, board or a block of pages to colour them.

A formal order or announcement issued by a magistrate.

An authoritative order or ruling.

Edward I’s order of 18 July 1290 requiring Jewish people to leave England by 1 November.

A French royal decree that granted religious toleration to Huguenots; Louis XIV revoked it in 1685.

The selection and arrangement of shots and sounds to construct a film’s sequence of events.

The speed and rhythm of the editing, influenced by the duration of shots and how frequently the film cuts.

A tool used to enter, change and save a program’s source code.

Freedom to make journalistic decisions without interference from owners, commercial interests or political authorities.

Rules and standards that publications regulated by IPSO have agreed to follow.

Professional rules enforced by IPSO for subscribing publishers’ printed and online editorial material, covering matters including accuracy, privacy and harassment.

Learning through which people acquire knowledge, skills, values and ways of behaving.

Success in education, indicated by outcomes such as examination results, qualifications and progression to further or higher education.

The level of qualifications or educational results achieved by a person or population.

The educational results or qualifications a person achieves, such as GCSE grades.

Continued participation in education, such as remaining at school at ages 16, 17 or 18.

A deliberate change to the organisation, provision or operation of education.

The early twentieth-century period associated with the reign of Edward VII, who ruled Britain from 1901 to 1910.

The European Economic Community: an organisation promoting economic cooperation and a common market, which Britain joined in 1973.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, established by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to investigate and tackle discrimination in employment.

Communication in which a message is received, understood and acted upon in the way intended.

Managing stress and difficulties in ways that help a person deal with the situation and continue functioning.

The extent to which a medicine produces its intended beneficial effect.

How well an insulating material reduces the rate of thermal energy transfer under specified conditions.