Guide to Acronyms
In these web pages, and in Common Awards documentation and discussions, you'll find a lot of acronyms, initialisms, and other abbreviations. *
Acronym |
Description |
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AFHEA |
Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy: successful completion of the University Teaching: Core Skills programme confers the right to apply for these post-nominal letters. |
APL |
The Accreditation of Prior Learning |
APCL |
The Accreditation of Prior Certificated Learning |
APEL |
The Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning |
APN |
Academic Progress Notice |
AQS |
Academic Quality Service (the office in Durham University where the Common Awards administrative team is based). |
ASE |
Annual Self Evaluation |
BoE |
Board of Examiners |
CAMB |
Common Awards Management Board |
CAMC |
Common Awards Management Committee within each TEI (though note that this may not be the name of the committee used internally, within the TEI). |
CASS |
Common Awards Student Survey |
CIG |
Continuing Implementation Group: a committee drawn from MDT and the TEIs which works on changes to the Common Awards curriculum. |
CIS |
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CMS |
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CofE |
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CYM |
(Institute for) Children, Youth & Mission |
DCAD |
Durham Centre for Academic Development: the University department that delivers the University Teaching: Core Skills programme. |
DI-AG |
Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group |
ERMC |
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FHEQ |
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FTE |
Full-Time Equivalent (where, for example, two half-time students add up to one FTE) |
GDPR |
General Data Protection Regulation |
GMH |
Global Majority Heritage |
HEA |
Higher Education Academy (also known as Advance HE) |
KS |
Key Skill: a category of the Programme Learning Outcomes for all Common Awards programmes. |
LKC |
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LTH |
The University's Learning and Teaching Handbook |
MDT |
Ministry Development Team (part of the Church of England's central bureaucracy). Formerly known as National Ministry Team. |
MOT |
Module Overview Table (also known as the T4) |
Moodle |
Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment: the virtual learning environment used by the majority of Common Awards TEIs. |
NMT |
National Ministry Team (part of the Church of England's central bureaucracy). Now known as Ministry Development Team. |
NSS |
National Student Survey |
OfS |
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OIA |
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PER |
Periodic External Review |
QAA |
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QaF |
Quality and Formation panel: NMT's committee overseeing the quality of ordination training. |
QSC |
Quality and Standards Committee |
SACs |
Serious Adverse Circumstances |
SCONUL |
Society of College, National and University Libraries: scheme which allows many university library users to borrow or use books and journals at other libraries which belong to the scheme. |
SCTEI |
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SEI |
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SSK |
Subject Specific Knowledge: a category of the Programme Learning Outcomes for all Common Awards programmes. |
SSS |
Subject Specific Skills: a category of the Programme Learning Outcomes for all Common Awards programmes. |
SVC |
Standard Validation Contract (between each TEI and Durham University) |
SWMTC |
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T3 |
Template 3: the programme regulations for each programme validated for delivery by TEIs. |
T4 |
Template 4: the Module Overview Table for each programme validated for delivery by TEIs. |
T5 |
Template 5: the curriculum mapping of each programme validated for delivery by TEIs. |
T9 |
Template 9: the list of staff contributing the delivery of Common Awards programmes in each TEI. |
T11 |
Template 11: the Church Pathways Form used by TEIs to seek approval from the CofE for programme and curriculum developments. |
TEI |
Theological Education Institutions |
TEN |
Theological Educators Network: partners in the organisation of the Common Awards Staff Conference. |
TMM |
Theology, Ministry and Mission |
UKME |
United Kingdom Minority Ethnic |
ULO |
University Liaison Officer |
VLE |
Virtual Leaning Environment (more commonly known as Moodle) |
YTEP |
Yorkshire Theological Education Partnership |
* Both acronyms and initialisms are formed by selecting letters (normally initial letters) from other words. In an acronym, these letters make a new pronounceable word (like 'SCONUL'); in an initialism, these letters are pronounced as individual letters (e.g., 'TEI' – pronounced tee-ee-eye).