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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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 - from Chapter 1 of Examining the World, by Elisabeth Leedham Green
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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 - from Chapter 5 of Examining the World, by Peter Falvey and Gillian Cooke
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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 GCE - from Chapter 3 of Examining the World, by Helen and John Patrick
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