Information evening
1) Schools have open evenings or days to give information about the school to students and their parents. Is there a special English word for such an evening? Or is 'information evening' the correct term?

2) Students are sometimes afraid that they will fail in a certain task, they have what we call in Dutch 'faalangst' , 'fear of failure.' Is 'fear of failure' the usual term in English? Are there synonyms?

Question

Information evening
1) Schools have open evenings or days to give information about the school to students and their parents. Is there a special English word for such an evening? Or is 'information evening' the correct term?

2) Students are sometimes afraid that they will fail in a certain task, they have what we call in Dutch 'faalangst' , 'fear of failure.' Is 'fear of failure' the usual term in English? Are there synonyms?

Answer

US:
1. "Parent-Teacher Night" or "Parent Night" if all of the parents in the school come on the same night.  If a single parent is meeting with their child's teacher(s) (and there are no other parents there),  I'd call it a "Parent-Teacher conference."

2.  "Fear of failure" is the term I'd use.