By Rebecca Black – Belfast Telegraph 10/22/2021 “…Professor Brian Murphy, director of academic business development and responsible for widening participation at the university, said boys and young men are “seriously falling behind at every level of the education system”…” Read the entire article: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/education-trial-aims-to-tackle-underachievement-of-boys-40975007.html The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
Category: Education of Boys
Gender Gap in Education Achievements Widens Every Year
By: María Alejandra Pulgar, 10/04/21 “…“Historically, studies show that boys were more likely to hold positions of leadership within schools as well as graduate with higher rates. However, in the last few years, there has been such a push to have more girls take ownership of their educational future as well as understand the limitless READ MORE
OPINION: Too many young men are missing from college campuses like mine
by Tania Tetlow, 09/16/21 “…Nationally, 59 percent of college students are female; many campuses, like mine, have a gender imbalance, with the student body over 60 percent women and less than 40 percent men. And the gap only expands when we consider student retention; the six-year graduation rate is six percentage points lower for men READ MORE
Closing the growing gender gap in higher education
By Paul J. Luna and Charleita M. Richardson, 11/01/21 “…Several prominent media outlets recently called attention to this issue. Out of every 10 college students, The Wall Street Journal reported, about six are women while only four are men, and should this trend persist, there will soon be two women for every one man. The READ MORE
Education trial aims to tackle underachievement of boys
By Rebecca Black, PA, 10/22/21 “…Professor Brian Murphy, director of academic business development and responsible for widening participation at the university, said boys and young men are “seriously falling behind at every level of the education system”. “At Ulster University the participation rate for young men is now at 40% of our student population. Are READ MORE
How traits relate to brain activity may differ between autistic boys, girls
By Anna Goshua, 10/11/21 “…The new work bolsters the idea that the brains of autistic boys function differently from those of autistic girls. It should also serve as a warning to scientists to heed these differences when considering resting-state brain activity as a biomarker for autism, the researchers say….” Read the entire article: https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/how-traits-related-to-brain-activity-may-differ-between-autistic-boys-girls The READ MORE
Is the American Male Disappearing from Universities and the Workplace?
By Thomas A. Hemphill, 10/05/21 “…How important is the role of the father in the structure of the American family? According to the nonprofit National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI), the U.S. Census Bureau reports that, based on their national survey data for 2020, 18.3 million children (under eighteen years old), or one-in-four children, live without a READ MORE
Robin Newton: Underachievement in education in Northern Ireland, which particularly affects Protestant boys, must be addressed
By Robin Newton, 09/25/21 “…Consequently, the disparities that already existed within our education system will undoubtedly be widened further. Indeed, in a survey conducted by the National Foundation for Educational Researchers, 98% of teachers believed that their pupils were an average of three months behind the curriculum. They found boys were further behind than girls READ MORE
Boys and girls should have equal access to education to build a peaceful world: Dalai Lama
By Yangchen Dolma, 10/15/21 “…Mithila Hore, a USIP Generation Change Fellow in Bangladesh, asked him how to advise a woman who had taken her daughter, not her son, out of school because of the pandemic. His Holiness replied, “Everyone should have equal access to education so that we can create an atmosphere of equality. It READ MORE
How to help struggling college freshman boys who hide failure, according to an expert
By John Duffy, CNN – August 17, 2021 “…The past seven years or so, up to and through the pandemic, about 35 of my colleagues nationwide and I have witnessed a growing phenomenon — young men of all races and ethnicities who start college and get very far off track within weeks or a month READ MORE