Keywords
- accommodation
- adviser (not advisor)
- affect (‘Their business was not affected by the recession’ but ‘The recession has had no effect on their business’.)
- ageing (not aging)
- A-level
- alumni (plural)
- alumnus/alumna (male/female) - or graduate for recruitment materials
- audio-visual
- autumn 2017
- BA (Hons)
- bachelor’s degree
- BAME (Black, Asian and minority ethnic)
- Black (upper case ‘B’)
- behaviour (not behavior)
- benefited/benefiting (one ‘t’ only)
- Brookes Bursary Scheme
- BROOKESbus
- BROOKESkey
- BSc (Hons)
- cafe (no accent)
- centre (not center)
- childcare
- Clearing (UCAS system) (capital C)
- co-operate
- co-ordinate
- coursework
- Covid-19 (not COVID-19)
- cybersecurity (one word)
- cyberspace (one word)
- DipHE (diploma of higher education)
- DfE (Department for Education)
- e-learning
- e-commerce
- eg (not e.g.)
- en suite (two words)
- euro (euros)
- F1 (Formula 1)
- Fairtrade
- focusing (one ‘s’ only)
- Formula Student
- foundation course
- foundation degree - Fd(A) or Fd(Sc)
- full-time
- further education
- GCSE (general certificate of secondary education)
- Gipsy Lane (not Gypsy)
- government
- graduate (not alumni/alumna) in recruitment materials
- halls of residence
- headteacher (not headmaster or headmistress)
- healthcare (one word)
- HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England)
- higher education but HE
- historic (a historic city, not an historic city)
- honours (lower case unless part of a specific degree title)
- iMac, iPod, iTunes, iPlayer
- International Baccalaureate (upper case)
- install
- instalment
- interdisciplinary
- -ise (not -ize)
- John Henry Brookes Building (upper case)
- judgement (not judgment)
- LGBTQ+
- liaison
- marketplace
- master’s degree(s)
- motorsport
- multicultural
- multidisciplinary
- multi-ethnic
- multimedia
- multiprofessional
- national curriculum
- NSS survey (National Student Satisfaction Survey)
- Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education)
- open day (no caps)
- OxINMAHR (Oxford Institute for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Research)
- Park & Ride (not Park and Ride)
- part-time
- PGCE (postgraduate certificate in education)
- PGCert (postgraduate certificate)
- PGDip (postgraduate diploma)
- PhD by research
- PIP (personal information portal)
- postgraduate
- post-qualification
- practice (noun)
- practise (verb)
- principal (first in importance)
- principle (rule)
- Pro Vice-Chancellor
- program (computers)
- programme (of study)
- pro-rata
- semester (not term)
- Semester 1
- signalling (not signaling)
- socioeconomic
- south-east (lower case and hyphen)
- specialise (with an ‘s’ not ‘z’)
- startup (noun - as in business startup)
- stationary (not moving)
- stationery (writing materials)
- students’ union (but Brookes Union)
- University of Oxford (not Oxford University)
- Vice-Chancellor (with hyphen)
- Vice-President
- Victorian era (capital V)
- wellbeing (1 word)
- wifi (lower case ‘w’)
- work placement year (no hyphen)
- worldwide
- WP (widening participation)
- Year 1 of a course (not year 1)
- Year 12 students
- YouTube (1 word, upper case ‘Y’ and ’T’)