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Research says working class boys are falling behind because of a fear of failure. What can we do to solve it? A gender gap in educational attainment means boys get lower exam results than...
Sep 26, 2020 · Only 2% of white working class boys get into more selective, "high tariff" universities. MPs warned that delays in BTec grades this summer could have caused even more disruption for...
Mar 9, 2018 · The implication of this on their ability to be successful is important and shows how much harder working-class boys must work than those from more privileged backgrounds to achieve in...
3 days ago · For example, working-class, white native British boys tend to do worst — male children from other cultures tend to do better — according to a 2021 education committee report entitled “The ...
He's a white working-class boy who is going to university. More than half a million new students will be heading off to start at universities across the UK this term, with record numbers set...
Mar 10, 2023 · We discuss how the current education system places boys at a disadvantage; why boys raised in poverty are less likely than girls to escape it; the fact that female students are twice as likely...
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Apr 3, 2020 · Working-class boys and educational success: teenage identities, masculinities and urban schooling. by Nicola Ingram, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 244 pp., £65.25 (hardback); £58.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-137-40158-8.