The Scottish Education Department introduced a Leaving Certificate Examination in 1888 to set national standards for secondary education and in 1890 school fees were abolished, creating a state-funded national system of free basic education and common examinations.

Leaving Changsha, Mao moved to the capital city of Peking, where his school mentor Yang Changji had recently migrated to take up a job at Peking University.

Leaving school at 15, he worked at the Dreamland fun fair in Margate.

Other notable mentions of Barstow include the 2008 movie Leaving Barstow, which tells the story of a high school senior who must choose between his ambitions to leave Barstow or stay in the city to care for his mother.

Leaving a steady job for a position as a math teacher in a school where rebellion runs high and teachers are more focused on discipline than academics, Escalante is at first not well liked by students, receiving numerous taunts and threats.

Qualifications are measured as " points ", with specific scales for the Irish Leaving Certificate, and all other European Union school leaving results, such as the UK GCE A-level, the International Baccalaureate along with other national school leaving exams.

Leaving college and working as a theatrical tailor, Kieślowski applied to the Łódź Film School, the famed Polish film school which also has Roman Polanski and Andrzej Wajda among its alumni.

Leaving school at fourteen to become a labourer in the local coal-mine, he also began to play for the village cricket team, Kirkby Portland.

The Leaving Certificate Examinations (), commonly referred to as the Leaving Cert ( Irish: Ardteist ) is the final examination in the Irish secondary school system.

He passed the Leaving Certificate at 17, and with four school mates, studied philosophy, still at Belvedere, for a year after this, while developing his rugby.

* Irish Leaving Certificate, a higher qualification attained by school students

Leaving school at an early age, he became a clerk at Rawson's Brewery, and rose to be manager.

Leaving school at 16, Reid, decided not to go to University but instead took a series of jobs, including construction work on an oil pipeline and another in insurance.

Leaving school at 15 with no qualifications, and after being sacked within four months of his first job at Ely's department store in Wimbledon, Clifford's brother Bernard used his print union connections to gain Clifford a job as editorial assistant on the Eagle comic.

* Leaving Certificate, the final course in the Irish secondary school system

In Singapore, after Primary School Leaving Examination or PSLE for short, students can choose to enter a private high school.

Until the 1960s and 1970s, " matriculation ", often shortened to " matric ", was used ( as in other Commonwealth countries ) to refer to the successful completion of Form 6 ( Year 12 ), the extra year of high school after the ' Leaving ' year, which was the last year which had a completion certificate.

Leaving school in 1825, he went to study chemistry, at the suggestion of Dr. Fennell, in London under Dr. Keating at St. Paul's churchyard.

Leaving school not long after the relocation, Bagley worked as a printer's assistant and factory worker, and during World War II he worked in the aircraft industry.

The Irish Leaving Certificate is a State exam taken by all Irish students before they leave secondary school.

" Carpenter spent much of her time in high school playing the guitar and piano ; while at Princeton Day School, her " classmates threatened to cut her guitar strings if she played " Leaving on a Jet Plane " one more time.

Leaving school at the age of 14 he received three years of education from a local pastor before he entered the military at the age of 17.

Leaving Cathy with them, Myra had gone out to the Coast for a supposedly brief visit ; ;

Leaving his new wife with her parents in Amesbury, Massachusetts, he subsequently returned to New York in 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression.

A new Leaving Certificate exam subject with the working title ' Politics & Society ' is being developed by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment ( NCCA ) and is expected to be introduced to the curriculum sometime after 2012.

They quickly became Europe's main producers with their actualités like Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory and comic vignettes like The Sprinkler Sprinkled ( both 1895 ).

Leaving Rome in 1540, Francis took with him a breviary, a catechism and a Latin book () written by the Croatian humanist Marko Marulić that had become popular in the counter-reformation.

Leaving the Carthaginians alone at Messana would give them a free hand to deal with Syracuse ; after the Syracusans had been defeated, the Carthaginian takeover of Sicily would essentially be complete.

Leaving Fox on sour terms didn't help his reputation, but Hawks was one of the few people in Hollywood who never backed down from fights with studio heads.

New qualifications were developed to cope with changing aspirations and economics, with the Leaving Certificate being replaced by the Scottish Certificate of Education Ordinary Grade (' O-Grade ') and Higher Grade (' Higher ') qualifications in 1962, which became the basic entry qualification for university study.

Leaving Octavia pregnant with her second child Antonia in Rome, he sailed to Alexandria, where he expected funding from Cleopatra, the mother of his twins.

Leaving the Greenland Sea with 2. 5 Sv its flow increases to 10 Sv south of Greenland.

Leaving the city 45 minutes later with the remaining cardboard boxes, the men allegedly asked " how to get to Florida.

Leaving the country in the hands of various officials he designated ( including his mother, at times ), Richard was far more concerned with his more extensive French lands.

Leaving aside the tales regarding miracles, in the Vita Sancti Niniani Ailred includes the following incidental information regarding Saint Ninian: that his father was a Christian king ; that he was consecrated a bishop in Rome and that he met Saint Martin in Tours ; that Saint Martin sent masons with him on his homeward journey, at his request ; that these masons built a church of stone, situated on the shore, and on learning of Saint Martin's death, Ninian dedicated the church to him ; that a certain rich and powerful " King Tuduvallus " was converted by him ; that he died after having converted the Picts and returned home, being buried in a stone sarcophagus near the altar of his church ; and that he had once travelled with a holy person named " Plebia ".

Leaving gymnasium to study philosophy, psychology and sociology at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Adorno continued his readings with Kracauer, turning now to Hegel and Kierkegaard, and began publishing concert reviews and pieces of music for distinguished journals like the Zeitschrift für Musik, the Neue Blätter für Kunst und Literatur and later for the Musikblätter des Anbruch.

" Leaving the convention with his idealism disillusioned by party politics, Roosevelt said he had no further aspiration but to retire to his ranch in the Badlands of the Dakota Territory, which he had purchased the previous year while on a buffalo hunting expedition.

Leaving the Prussian First and Second Armies besieging Metz, Moltke formed the Army of the Meuse under the Crown Prince of Saxony by detaching three corps from them, and took this army and the Prussian Third Army northward, where they caught up with the French at Beaumont on 30 August.

Marcy Playground partnered with Indaba Music to offer fans the opportunity to remix songs from its album " Leaving Wonderland ".

Leaving the city-state the Lower Elbe then passes between Holstein and the Elbe-Weser Triangle with Stade until it flows into the North Sea at Cuxhaven.

Leaving Asia amicably, Fleischman returned to America eventually to work on several projects with ex-KISS guitarist Vinnie Vincent.

He produced nearly all of The Beatles ' recordings ( later songs " Real Love " and " Free as a Bird " were produced by Jeff Lynne ) and wrote the instrumental score for the Yellow Submarine film and soundtrack album, and the string and horn ( and even some vocal ) arrangements for almost all of their songs ( with the famous exception of the Phil Spector re-production on the Let It Be album, and " She's Leaving Home ", which was arranged by Mike Leander ).

" Leaving Christabel with Noémie, Pankhurst returned immediately to England.

Leaving Rephidim, the Israelites advanced into the Sinai Wilderness ( Exodus 19: 1-2 ; Numbers 33: 14-15 ), possibly marching through the two passes of the Wadi Solaf and the Wadi esh-Sheikh, which converge at the entrance to the er-Rahah plain ( which would then be identified with the " Sinai Wilderness "), which is two miles ( 3 km ) long and about half a mile broad.

Most recently, the organisation has become embroiled in a dispute with Irish political party Fine Gael over the party's policy to end the status of Irish as a compulsory subject for the Leaving Certificate.