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local examinations
plural noun
- any of various examinations, such as the GCE, set by university boards and conducted in local centres, schools, etc
Example Sentences
In May, the bureau ordered the local examinations body to remove a question on Sino-Japanese history, saying it was biased and would hurt the feelings of Chinese people.
He ended his teaching career and moved to Oxford for a job as senior assistant secretary with the university’s Delegacy of Local Examinations.
For the next two decades he was the senior assistant secretary at the Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations, which set exams for secondary schools.
That was in 1857, at Exeter, when the first experiment was made, under the auspices of Sir T. Acland, in establishing the Oxford and Cambridge Local Examinations.
It met in November, 1870, and passed twenty-two Acts, among them being the University Act of 1870, giving the Governor in Council power to establish local examinations for degrees in connection with universities in Great Britain and Ireland.
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