The time worn line is that boys and girls ‘do better’ at single sex schools. Do they? Really? Often, those who cite the line as fact will hold up the crème de la crème of single sex schools as proof of the statement’s fundamental truth; but it is not the singularity of the gender that leads to such schools’ high performance – it is rather the exclusivity of their academic selection.
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Research and studies suggest these are difficult times to be a boy. Girls tend to perform better than boys academically throughout each key stage of a school career and the gap is widening. Seventy per cent of women now progress to university compared to only 50% of men. I can’t help believing that the dramatic decline in the number of single-sex schools over the past 25 years has directly impacted these statistics.
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All girls’ education continues to thrive in south Manchester with demand for places at Wilmslow Preparatory School as high as ever. But what is it that makes the fee-paying school stick to its ‘all-girls’ guns when, during these tricky economic times, going co-ed could make life financially easier?
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