Waddell (1978)

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Part I

Preliminary pages Contents, Membership
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Educational matters
Chapter 3 Structure of the examining system
Chapter 4 Cost
Chapter 5 Conclusions
Appendices

Part II

Preliminary pages Contents, Membership

Report of the Education Study Group (ESG)

Glossary, Introduction
Chapter 1 Feasibility of common exam system
Chapter 2 English
Chapter 3 Mathematics
Chapter 4 Science
Chapter 5 History
Chapter 6 Geography
Chapter 7 Modern languages
Chapter 8 Classics
Chapter 9 Commerce
Chapter 10 Social science
Chapter 11 Religious studies
Chapter 12 Craft design and technology
Chapter 13 Technical drawing
Chapter 14 Home economics
Chapter 15 Needlecraft and dress
Chapter 16 Art
Chapter 17 Music
Chapter 18 Further work
Appendix A List of witnesses
Appendix B Questions
Appendix C Statistics
Appendix D Joint examinations

Report of the Cost Study Group (CSG)

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Costs in 1976
Chapter 3 Costing a common system
Chapter 4 Changeover costs
Annexes

Report of the Steering Committee established to consider proposals for replacing the General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level and Certificate of Secondary Education examinations by a common system of examining

Chairman: Sir James Waddell CB

Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Education and Science and the Secretary of State for Wales by Command of Her Majesty July 1978

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1978
© Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.

Part I: Cmnd 7281-I
Part II: Cmnd 7281-II

Part II - ESG Report

Appendix A List of those consulted
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Consultative meetings were held with teachers from a variety of schools and colleges of further education, LEA advisers, members of Schools Council subject committees, institutes of higher education, university departments of education, university faculties and with representatives of the following organisations:

National Association for the Teaching of English

Association of Teachers in Mathematics
Mathematical Association

Association for Science Education
Institute of Biology
Institute of Physics
Royal Institute of Chemistry
Chemical Society
The Royal Society

Historical Association

Geographical Association Royal
Geographical Society

British Association for Language Teaching
Joint Council of Language Associations
Modern Language Association

Joint Association of Classical Teachers

Economics Association
Faculty of Teachers in Commerce Ltd
Society of Commercial Teachers Ltd

Association for the Teaching of the Social Sciences
Economics Association
Politics Association

Institute of Craft Education
Association of Teachers of Domestic Science

National Society for Art Education
Society for Education through Art