Prince and King abandoning specialist before getting pass on entering place of learning (6,7)

I believe the answer is:

exeter college

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'prince and king abandoning specialist before getting pass' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'entering place of learning' is the wordplay.
'entering' becomes 'exeter' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'place of learning' becomes 'college' (I've seen this before).
'exeter'+'college'='EXETER COLLEGE'

'on' is the link.

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