The Certificate of Secondary Education (CSE) was a school leaving qualification awarded between 1965 and 1987 in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. It was introduced to provide a qualification available to all schoolchildren distinct from the GCE aimed at the more able pupils, mostly at grammar and independent schools rather than secondary modern schools, aiming for places at a university.

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  • The Certificate of Secondary Education (CSE) was a school leaving qualification awarded between 1965 and 1987 in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. It was introduced to provide a qualification available to all schoolchildren distinct from the GCE aimed at the more able pupils, mostly at grammar and independent schools rather than secondary modern schools, aiming for places at a university. Before the introduction of the GCSE, the majority of those schoolchildren at secondary modern schools didn't take O-Level examinations and so left school without any qualifications at all. There were five pass grades in its grading system ranging from grades 1 to 5 with grade 1 being recognised as equivalent to one O-Level grade C pass or above. Pupils could take a mixture of CSEs and O-levels. Cecile Wright, a leading sociologist, found that many Black pupils were entered for the CSE instead of the O-level at an English school. This raised questions over negative teacher labelling to ethnic minorities. It was replaced along with the O-levels by the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) in 1988.
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  • The Certificate of Secondary Education (CSE) was a school leaving qualification awarded between 1965 and 1987 in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. It was introduced to provide a qualification available to all schoolchildren distinct from the GCE aimed at the more able pupils, mostly at grammar and independent schools rather than secondary modern schools, aiming for places at a university.
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  • Certificate of Secondary Education
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