Gender gap swings in favour of male candidates for the first time since 2018
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Gender gap swings in favour of male candidates for the first time since 2018
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Professor Alan Smithers said the ‘under-performance of boys in education should be treated as a major issue’

The proportion of boys' entries awarded A or A* this year was 28.4 per cent, 0.2 percentage points higher than the equivalent…

Boys outperform girls as the number of pupils achieving A* and As rise for another year

A study in France shows a striking gender gap within the first months of school

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While boys are still dominating STEM subjects and girls are outperforming in the humanities, it’s physical education that’s…

In charts: UK private schools lose ground to state rivals in A-level results race