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We also need to review whether alternative tests (such as the US-based SAT) or alternative teaching methods in schools would be better suited to boys (this is, after all, an era of "personalised learning"). Finally, it has been suggested that we simply broadcast to all those under-achieving males that university campuses are currently dominated by the opposite sex. Advocates of this approach argue that it would be a win-win situation for both sides of the educational divide.

Women are achieving better grades at university, study finds

By Joanna Sugden

From The Times

June 8, 2009

Women are outperforming men at university according to research by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI).

The study shows that female students of all ages and social and ethnic groups now outstrip male undergraduates in almost every subject including law and medicine. They are also more likely to go to leading universities and achieve better grades.

More than 49 per cent of women now go on to higher education compared to 37.8 per cent of men who study for degrees.

Women have almost reached the Government’s target of half of all young people becoming graduates, but the low percentage for men drags the overall figure down.

Researchers found that the gap between the sexes is widening most dramatically between the poorest.