US Edition‘Chronic’ under-performance of boys at GCSE should be treated as major issue
Professor Alan Smithers warns boys’ chronic GCSE under-performance risks harming the UK’s economic competitiveness as female top grades exceed male results by 5.7 percentage points.
- On the eve of results day, Professor Alan Smithers warned that the `chronic` under-performance of boys at GCSE demands urgent attention.
- Analysis shows girls outperformed boys with 22.0% of female GCSE entries and 19.0% of male entries last year, revealing a gender gap.
- Last year, 21.8% of UK GCSE entries reached at least a 7, under the 9 grading system, according to official data.
- Calling resits `soul-destroying`, Smithers urged policy reform and scrapping the English Baccalaureate due to low foreign language uptake.
- Education officials plan to publish reforms via the Schools White Paper later this year, following the curriculum and assessment review due in the autumn.
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‘Chronic’ under-performance of boys at GCSE should be treated as major issue
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