Education - IELTS lexical resource
IELTS vocabulary and collocations for education topics. These could be useful for related letters, essays or even speaking exam topics. Please note that US spelling is used throughout.
Vocabulary
General
- Curriculum/Syllabus
- Vocational education: Undergoing training for a skill/trade to be pursued as a career. Technical. Traditionally non-academic.
- Pedagogy: The method of how teachers teach.
- Exam
- Literate: Able to read and write
- Assignment/Task
- Theory
- Controversy: Disagreement. E.g. The announcement has caused controversy.
- Dissertation
- Grade
- Field of study
- Learning disorder
- Homework
- Review
- Project
- Graduation
- Scholarship
- Scope
- Masters
- Program
- Limits
- PhD
- Thesis
- Academic
- Eligible: Having the right to do something
- Relevant
- Single-sex: Only for a specific gender
- Studious
Person
- Scholar
- Invigilator: Someone that supervises during an exam.
- Apprentice: A person who is learning a trade.
- Tutor
- Teacher
- Lecturer
- Postgraduate
- Senior
Place
- College
- University
- Nursery
- Junior school
- Primary school
- Kindergarten
- Secondary school
- Library
Research
- Findings
- Funding
- Grant
- Collate: To collect and combine information.
- Correlate: Dependence/relationship between 2 things that affect each other.
- Resources
- Results
- Analyze
- Conduct
- Concentrate
- Hypothesis: A proposition based on some truths, that needs to be further tested.
- Find out
- Organized
- Overcome
- Relatively
- Empirical: Based on observation/experience. E.g. The theory needs to be supported with empirical evidence.
- Qualitative: Measured by quality rather than quantity. E.g. Something felt smooth rather than rough.
- Quantitative: Measured by quantity
- Abstract: Summary/Précis of a book or other content
- Bibliography: List of books referred to in scholarly work
- Commentary
- Footnote: Additional information at the bottom of a page
- Paper
- Periodical: A magazine/newspaper published at regular intervals
Collocations/idioms
- To get an education
- Higher education
- Under one's belt: Learned
- Access to education
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