Certificates

Example of a ULCI certificate

The Union of Lancashire & Cheshire Institutes provided examinations for secondary schoolchildren. These were taken at St Gregory’s by a minority of boys who were considered weak in certain subjects. Among the subjects taken in 1964 were English Language, mathematics, history, geography, French, art, engineering workshop theory and practice, book-keeping, physics, chemistry, and geometrical and engineering drawing. Some boys who took the ULCIs also sat O-levels in some subjects. The final ULCI exams were held in 1965, when a total of 44 fifth-form boys were awarded certificates. The following year saw boys being entered for CSE examinations for the first time. Note how the above certificate, which was awarded to a pupil at a south Manchester school in 1963, does not have the school’s name printed on it.

Front cover for GCE certificates

Example of an O-level GCE certificate, June 1964

Note that the examination grades awarded are not shown: they were issued separately on a results slip. In the sixth form Brian Johnson gained five more O-levels as well as four A-levels and was awarded a place at the prestigious London School of Economics, where he studied economics.

Example of a University Entrance Test in English certificate, January 1966

Example of an A-level GCE certificate from the University of London, summer 1965

(These taken in Lower VI)

Example of an A-Level GCE certificate from the JMB, June 1966