We have known for some time that something in the education system isn’t working for boys. In primary, secondary and now, as a report from the Higher Education Policy Institute confirms (Boys to Men, May 2016: http://bit.ly/1TjfNmD), in university education too, boys are lagging behind female class mates.
UCAS estimates that women are 35 per cent more likely to get a place on a degree course in the UK than a man. If current trends continue unchecked, things will get significantly worse for boys born today.
The fact also remains that if the tables were turned and we were talking about more than 45,000 fewer girls getting degrees in the UK (and that is just using data from 2011), there would be more questions asked.
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