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Looked at dispassionately in 1903 it was not altogether obvious that Cambridge was taking a much bigger step forward than was Oxford in the place it would be giving to Economics. Admittedly a Tripos or Honour School would at the time be regarded as a level above that of a Diploma. A Diploma was a new idea in Oxford, having only just been introduced for Geography and for Education. In the next five years other Diplomas were established in Scientific Engineering and Mining Subjects (1904); Anthropology (1905); Classical Archaeology (1907). There was, however, a suggestion that the new Diploma was to be postgraduate. This was how it was understood in Cambridge during the debates on the Tripos proposal.1 Today the term post-graduate implies a course or examination confined to candidates who already possess a degree and at a level higher than that expected from first degree candidates. If that were to be the case the new Diploma might be expected to produce economics specialists of a level not less than that achieved by those who had reached Part II of the Economics Tripos by way of Part I of another Tripos.
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The Story of Ruskin College, Oxford, 3rd Edition (1968) and W. W. Craik, Central Labour College, London, 1964.
See also C. Tsuzuki, ‘Anglo-Marxism and working-class education’ in The Working Class in Modern British History ed. J. Winter (Cambridge, 1983).
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Chester, N. (1986). Developments 1903–18. In: Economics, Politics and Social Studies in Oxford, 1900–85. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08544-6_2
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