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Examinations and girls’ education - an extract from Chapter 2 of Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, by Andrew Watts.

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    Examinations and girls' education

    Examinations and girls’ education - from Chapter 2 of 'Examining the World, by Andrew Watts

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    Examination expansion overseas

    Examination expansion overseas - from Chapter 2 of Examining the World, by Andrew Watts.

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    Syndics

    Syndics - from Chapter 1 of Examining the World, by Elisabeth Leedham Green

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    Exams during the Second World War

    Exams during the Second World War - from Chapter 2 of Examining the World, by Andrew Watts and Chapter 4, by Greg Lacey

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    Premises to 1965

    Premises to 1965 - from Chapter 1 of Examining the World, by Elisabeth Leedham Green

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    The first Cambridge English exams

    The first Cambridge English exams - from Chapter 5 of Examining the World, by Peter Falvey and Gillian Cooke

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    Introducing the General Certificate of Education

    Introducing the GCE - from Chapter 3 of Examining the World, by Helen and John Patrick

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