Gender row cooking up in classroom

JANET is adjusting the calibration of her lathe. John is lightly stewing the apples to make a juicy turnover.

Welcome to the future of Scottish education - for the Executive and qualification chiefs are to launch a radical bid to close the gender gap and move towards a 50/50 split of boys and girls in every subject taught in schools and colleges.


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In Highers, female candidates make up the majority of entries in French, administration and biology, while computing and graphic communication remain the almost exclusive bastion of boys.

Sunday, 29th July 2007
Scotland on Sunday