Regarding education, second option (dropping English) will receive stick (10)
I believe the answer is:
scholastic
'regarding education' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't see how one could define the other.
'second option dropping english will receive stick' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'second' could be 'tic' and 'tic' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scholastic that I've seen before include "Academic" , "Educative" , "Learned" , "Pertaining to teaching and educational establishments" , "Relating to education" .)