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How Can Teaching Boys Alongside Girls Better Prepare Pupils for the Realities of Life?

Brodie Bibby | Posted 02.04.2013 | UK Universities & Education
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Brodie Bibby

As a boy in a boarding school myself many years ago, which was single sex until A levels, the arrival of girls in the sixth form was the worst possible distraction to teenage boys about to embark serious exams. Boys and girls perhaps learn differently and approach work in different ways.

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On Nobel Prizes, and why Girls Should eat Cake in History Lessons

Hannah Wallis | Posted 03.01.2012 | UK Universities & Education
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Hannah Wallis

It was with fascination that I listened to Radio 4's profile last week of Jocelyn Bell Burnell - the scientist whose claim to fame is being passed over for the Nobel Prize for physics, despite being the person who discovered pulsars. Rather, it was awarded to her male colleague instead.

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