Waddell (1978)

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Notes on the text

Part I

Preliminary pages (iii-viii)
Contents, Membership
Chapter I (1-5)
Introduction
Chapter II (6-18)
Educational matters
Chapter III (19-27)
Structure of the examining system
Chapter IV (28-34)
Cost
Chapter V (35-41)
Conclusions
Appendices (42-46)

Part II

Preliminary pages (i-xvii)
Contents, Membership

Report of the Education Study Group (ESG)

Glossary, Introduction (1-9)
Chapter 1 (10-15)
Feasibility of common exam system
Chapter 2 (16-23)
English
Chapter 3 (24-29)
Mathematics
Chapter 4 (30-34)
Science
Chapter 5 (35-39)
History
Chapter 6 (40-43)
Geography
Chapter 7 (44-48)
Modern languages
Chapter 8 (49-52)
Classics
Chapter 9 (53-54)
Commerce
Chapter 10 (55-56)
Social science
Chapter 11 (57-58)
Religious studies
Chapter 12 (59-60)
Craft design and technology
Chapter 13 (61-63)
Technical drawing
Chapter 14 (64-65)
Home economics
Chapter 15 (66-67)
Needlecraft and dress
Chapter 16 (68-70)
Art
Chapter 17 (71-72)
Music
Chapter 18 (73-76)
Further work
Appendix A (77)
List of witnesses
Appendix B (78-80)
Questions
Appendix C (81)
Statistics
Appendix D (82-129)
Joint examinations

Report of the Cost Study Group (CSG)

Chapter 1 (131-134)
Introduction
Chapter 2 (135-149)
Costs in 1976
Chapter 3 (150-161)
Costing a common system
Chapter 4 (162-165)
Changeover costs
Annexes (166-186)

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

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

Notes on the text

The full text of the report is online, including all the Appendices and Annexes.

The organisation of the Waddell Report was complicated! It was published simultaneously in two parts in separate volumes (though the text presented here was scanned from an edition which included both parts, but with separate paginations). Part II was further sub-divided into two: the report of the Education Study Group and the report of the Cost Study Group. The chapters in these two reports were separately numbered. I hope the way I have presented the Report makes these divisions clear.

No ISBN number was given for Part I; the ISBN number for Part II is 0 10 172811 5.

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