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(20 Nov 2020, 3:09)
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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.
Examinations and girls’ education - from Chapter 2 of 'Examining the World, by Andrew Watts
(22 Nov 2020, 2:49)
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Examination expansion overseas - an extract from Chapter 2 of 'Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate', by Andrew Watts
Examination expansion overseas - from Chapter 2 of Examining the World, by Andrew Watts.
(23 Nov 2020, 3:19)
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Syndics - an extract from from Chapter 1 of 'Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate', by Elisabeth Leedham Green.
Syndics - from Chapter 1 of Examining the World, by Elisabeth Leedham Green
(24 Nov 2020, 2:55)
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Exams during the Second World War - an extract from Chapter 2 of Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, by Andrew Watts and Chapter 4, by Greg Lacey.
Exams during the Second World War - from Chapter 2 of Examining the World, by Andrew Watts and Chapter 4, by Greg Lacey
(25 Nov 2020, 2:51)
Premises to 1965 - an extract from Chapter 1 of 'Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate', by Elisabeth Leedham Green.
Premises to 1965 - from Chapter 1 of Examining the World, by Elisabeth Leedham Green
(25 Nov 2020, 2:55)
The first Cambridge English exams - an extract from Chapter 5 of 'Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate', by Peter Falvey and Gillian Cooke.
The first Cambridge English exams - from Chapter 5 of Examining the World, by Peter Falvey and Gillian Cooke
(27 Nov 2020, 2:57)
Introducing the General Certificate of Education - an extract from Chapter 3 of 'Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate', by Helen and John Patrick.
Introducing the GCE - from Chapter 3 of Examining the World, by Helen and John Patrick
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