Over-feminised schools are failing Britain’s boys

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'But for all the ambitious ideas, like the current government, it appears Labour have no plan when it comes to perhaps the most important issue in this country’s education system: the way it fails boys. Boys are falling behind in attainment. Fewer go to university. And it’s hard not to suspect that at least part of that is down to a lack of male leaders in schools to emulate, or who can empathise with their pupils.

Somewhere around 76% of school teachers are women. If girls were falling behind in male-dominated teaching environments, it’s hard not to suspect that at least some inquiries would be made about whether those environments were partly responsible. Yet the Government seems strangely uninterested in the issue.

A fascinating OECD report once found that boys were more hostile to school and likely to do fewer hours of homework than their female peers. It’s not particularly surprising, when the same research found that their teachers were consistently displaying favouritism towards female students.'