20 May 2013 - BBC News
One of the UK's most famous girls schools has announced it will be taking in boys for the first time. After 132 years as an all-girl school, the Perse School for Girls in Cambridge, which inspired Ronald Searle's St Trinian's cartoons...
19 Oct 2012 - IZA
This paper examines the determinants of mathematical achievement among primary school children. Previous studies have found that boys perform better in maths than girls, particularly at the upper end of the distribution. It has been suggested in the...
06 Feb 2012 - BBC News
Parents seem to want boys in co-educational schools but reckon girls do better in single-sex establishments. David Thompson looked at the figures and the competing needs of girls and boys, as he spoke to Waldegrave School headteacher Philippa Nunn,...
22 Sep 2006 - The Times
Girls who attend single-sex schools go on to earn more in the world of work than those in mixed education, although they do no better in exams, a new study has suggested.
Researchers who studied 13,000 people born in 1958 throughout their lives...
23 Sep 2011 - RTE News
There is no evidence that single-sex schooling benefits students more than co-ed, despite a persistent belief among many parents that this is the case, according to a study published this evening in the international journal Science.
But the study...