Breaking news on BBC this morning is about the Education Gap in higher education. This is something that several small organisations and individuals in the UK have been addressing, collectively and individually, but it is the first time I'm aware of any main media coverge.
Up until this point, main media coverge has always been about 'discrimination' against women in education, pretending that women do worse in science and technology – a disparity that relies upon ignoring medical science as part of science or technology.
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More should be done to tackle gender gaps at universitiesand colleges in the UK. This according to an education think-tank. The Higher Education Policy Institute says most already have more female than male students and that gap will worsen if current trends continue.
Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), was given airtime to state:
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In an average area of the country which sends an average number of people to university young white working-class men are fewer than 10% of those going to university and from the same areas Asian women from wealthier households over 40% go; which is a great story of success but I'd like the figures for the young white working-class men to be closer to that.
From the Institute's own website:
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Written by Nick Hillman (HEPI’s Director) and Nicholas Robinson, Boys to Men: The underachievement of young men in higher education – and how to start tackling it includes new data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and the Office for Fair Access (Offa) and has a Foreword by Mary Curnock Cook, the Chief Executive of UCAS.
Nick Hillman, co-author of the report and the Director of HEPI, said:
‘Nearly everyone seems to have a vague sense that our education system is letting young men down, but there are few detailed studies of the problem and almost no clear policy recommendations on what to do about it.
‘Young men are much less likely to enter higher education, are more likely to drop out and are less likely to secure a top degree than women. Yet, aside from initial teacher training, only two higher education institutions currently have a specific target to recruit more male students. That is a serious problem that we need to tackle...’
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Nick Robinson, co-author of the report, said:
‘Recent trends in higher education have left male students in a minority across most of the developed world. The division of males and females into such different fields of study reinforces stereotypes and has long-term consequences.
‘Higher education is a consistent predictor of greater civic participation, wellbeing and life expectancy. So the big gender gap should concern everyone...’
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In her Foreword, UCAS’s Chief Executive, Mary Curnock Cook, points out that girls born in 2016 are on course to be 75 per cent more likely to go to higher education than boys of the same age. She writes:
‘HEPI’s scan across the evidence and possible solutions to the growing imbalance in educational achievement of boys is enormously useful and highlights just how complex this topic is...’
A later BBC report was even more comprehensive.
Having a think-tank report on a problem for men is a long way from government action, or from any direct action by those involved in the problem but there is no doubt it is a start, possibly a necessary first step. The BBC didn't use the word 'discrimination' which they use for the feminist's pretended disparity in technology but having them air any problems experienced by males is a welcome change.