so this was an interesting read really and something I was saying years back when I was a teacher myself.
Boys are being left behind in the school system, and just as important, poor white males are being overlooked by the system.
a few snippets..
A baby girl born in 2016 will be 75% more likely to go to university than a boy, if current trends continuethis is something that has been coming for a while tbh, with what seems to be the system ignoring young men in favour of promoting women in every field possible, they have sliopped right off the radarMary Curnock Cook, head of the Ucas university admissions service, warns that being male could be a new form of disadvantage.
kind of fits above. Boys/mens issues in education collectively being "ignored"And she says while there is much focus on social mobility and geographical differences, there is a collective blind spot on the underachievement of young men
the predominance of Female teachers in schools appears to be leaving a huge gap in male educational role models.Ms Curnock Cook says she is "instinctively convinced" the fall in the proportion of male students is connected to the increasing gender imbalance in the school workforce.
Are young men not getting enough educational role models?
.Five out of six higher education institutions now have more female students than male - and if every single man who applied to university were to be automatically given a place, there would still be fewer men than women
paints its own picture really. There could be a lot of factors to this, but the only real reason for this level of disengagement is a lack of perceived care/opportunities for young men.
this hit home pretty square in the face as someone who grew up in a "disadvantage white family home". we see loads of things about getting young blacks/ethnic groups into further education, but the numbers show that its actually disadvantaged white who are missing out and nobody is doing a single thing about it as the "white man" doesn't fill the good old diversity quotas/scholarships ect.Among white boys from disadvantaged families only about 10% will go to university - the lowest of any social or ethnic group.
Deprived boys from other ethnic backgrounds, such as black and Asian, are much more likely to go to university.
So how do you get more young white men into higher education, when the system doesn't seem to care and the focus is on minority groups and females.
get more women in stem, more people of colour in media arts ect.
the one thing to note, is that even if you remove female dominated courses.. ie nursing/teaching, women still vastly outnumber men in higher education.
it sounds insane, but young white men/boys are being left behind because nobody seems to care and this perception that just because your white and male you have it easy in life.
http://www.bbc.com/news/education-36266753