Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board (OCSEB)
Scope and Contents
Records of Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board (OCSEB). Includes administrative and committee papers, personal papers, and publications produced by the organisation. Also includes some exam material, such as syllabuses, question papers and reports.
The records held by Archives & Heritage chiefly represent those of the Cambridge side of the Board, principally from the 1940s onwards.
Dates
- Creation: 1913 - 1997
Creator
Extent
202 archive box(es) : Paper, photographs, cassettes
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The records in this collection that are open to access are arranged as follows:
OCSEB/A - Administrative, 1917-1996
OCSEB/C - Committees, 1945-1995
OCSEB/EX - Executive, 1935-1997
OCSEB/GA - Government Agencies and National Institutions, 1921-1996
OCSEB/GEP - Government Education Policies and Initiatives, 1939-1995
OCSEB/IB - Inter-Board, 1940-1995
OCSEB/M - Miscellaneous, c.1930s and 1950s, 1988
OCSEB/PP - Personal Papers, 1921-1994
OCSEB/R - Research, 1946-1995
OCSEB/RP - Publications, 1913-1995
OCSEB/S - Subjects, 1928-1994
OCSEB/P - Examination Publications, 1918-1999
Arrangement
Owing to the diverse provenance of the papers and the lack of an inherent filing system, an artificial order or arrangement has been imposed on this archive.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
When OCSEB merged with UCLES in 1995, papers were divided between Cambridge University Library and the emerging UCLES Archive.
Many of the files in this collection appear to have been created first by A. E. E. McKenzie and then added to by H. F. King in their roles as Secretaries of the Cambridge side of the Board.
- Date
- 2012-01-03 15:25:31+00:00
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Cambridge Assessment Archives & Heritage Repository
Cambridge Assessment Archives & Heritage
The Triangle Building
Shaftesbury Road
Cambridge CB2 8EA United Kingdom
archivesandheritage@cambridge.org