Extracts from 'Examining the World'

Now playing: Examinations and girls' education

(20 Nov 2020, 3:09)

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

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

Now playing: Examination expansion overseas

(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

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

Now playing: Syndics

(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

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

Now playing: Exams during the Second World War

(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

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

Now playing: Premises to 1965

(25 Nov 2020, 2:51)

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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

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

Now playing: The first Cambridge English exams

(25 Nov 2020, 2:55)

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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

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

Now playing: Introducing the General Certificate of Education

(27 Nov 2020, 2:57)

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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 General Certificate of Education

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

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Extracts from 'Examining the World' - a unique insight into the history of exams

Now playing: Examinations and girls' education

Examinations and girls' education

Now playing: Examination expansion overseas

Examination expansion overseas

Now playing: Syndics

Syndics

Now playing: Exams during the Second World War

Exams during the Second World War

Now playing: Premises to 1965

Premises to 1965

Now playing: The first Cambridge English exams

The first Cambridge English exams

Now playing: Introducing the General Certificate of Education

Introducing the General Certificate of Education