ON THE INFLUENCE OF EXAMINATIONS. 369 
The Joint Board of the Scottish Universities for the Preliminary 
Examination ; 
The General Medical Council ; 
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh ; 
The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain ; 
The Society of Solicitors before the Supreme Courts ; 
The Chartered Accountants of Scotland ; 
The London Chamber of Commerce ; 
Girton College, Cambridge ; and 
Royal Holloway College, Englefield Green, Surrey. 
Generally these equivalents take account only of the individual subjects 
recorded on the certificate. All Leaving Certificates would be accepted, 
but candidates holding Intermediate Certificates only might also be 
accepted on account of the individual passes secured by them. 
Detailed information with respect to these certificates is given in the 
Annual Report of the Committee of Council on Education in Scotland, 
1901-2, vide pages 383-407 and pages 315, 316. 
University or Lonpon. 
Regulations for the School Huamination (Matriculation and Higher 
Standard) and for the School-leaving Certificate. 
(1) The University is prepared to award School-leaving Certificates 
under the following conditions to pupils on leaving school who have satis- 
fied the following conditions :— 
(i) Have pursued an approved course of study for a period of years 
at a school under inspection approved by the University. 
If the school is not actually inspected by the University within the 
year, or if the school has never been inspected by the University, it will 
be required as a condition of entering candidates for the School-leaving 
Certificate to pay a fee of 5/. This will cover the visit of the inspector 
to hold an oral examination, and for the present this will be accepted by 
the University as satisfying the above condition as to inspection. 
(ii) Have in the School Examination attained a standard at least 
equal to that of the Matriculation Examination in the requisite subjects, 
have satisfied an oral test in Modern Languages and in any other subject 
that may be thought desirable, and have passed in accordance with the 
Regulations of the Matriculation Examination affecting the subjects to be 
taken. (See extract from Matriculation Regulations, p. 372.) 
It is not contemplated by the University that pupils should neces- 
sarily, or even generally, leave school as soon as they have passed the 
School Examination (Matriculation Standard). The School-leaving Cer- 
tificate will not be awarded until the pupil has qualified to be registered as 
a matriculated student of the University and is about to leave school. 
(2) Any school desiring to present pupils for the School-leaving Certi- 
ficate will be required to submit to the University a general statement of 
the complete course of instruction given in the school, and also the curri- 
culum of study pursued by the candidates. In judging the adequacy 
of the curriculum for the purpose of the certificate, the University will 
take into consideration its suitablility to the school and pupils concerned 
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