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All-girls schools... What are they really like today?

This article was published in Great British Life on 27th February 2023. Until the 1960s the majority of children went to single sex schools, today about 6 per cent do. Headteachers from some of the UK's best all girls schools (and members of the Girls’ Schools Association*) answer your questions…

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X-ray of the gender gap in STEAM training

The gender gap in scientific-technological careers is a worldwide fact that is corroborated by numerous studies such as the one reviewed below. In single-sex schools, on the contrary, this gap is much smaller as gender stereotypes are greatly reduced. Anyone who observes this fact without prejudice…

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Personalized education

Pérez Guerrero, J. and Ahedo Ruiz, J. (2020). La educación personalizada según García Hoz. Revista Complutense de Educación, 31(2), 153-161 This article examines the philosophy underlying the concept of personalized education as conceived by Victor Garcia Hoz. For García Hoz, the process…

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Do we let girls become collateral damage in the push for co-ed schooling?

An article by Loren Bridge, Executive Director of AGSA, published on 8th August 2022. The popular argument that children should be educated in a co-ed environment because it replicates our society — the real world — is simplistic at best, damaging at worst. Let’s be honest. The reality is…

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Single-sex schools and SEND female students

Over the past few years, and particularly in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, several research projects have revealed that teenage girls can often have worse non-cognitive outcomes than their male peers. For example, research by Halldorsdottir et al. in Iceland revealed that the Covid-19 pandemic…

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