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Worry over girls' dominance at university

by NotPhil | July 8, 2007 at 02:04 pm

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"There is a very substantial - and growing - disparity between the extent to which males and females participate in higher education," said Bahram Bekhradnia, the director of the Higher Education Policy Institute.

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infomatique

at 14:34 on July 8th, 2007

More than 70 per cent of tutors questioned in the study, which covered half of the 114 institutions in the UK, said the trend was negatively affecting the quality of university education".

Can anyone explain to me why more female students leads to a decline in the quality of education?

NotPhil

at 14:46 on July 8th, 2007

If a significant portion of your population is being neglected or discouraged by educational policies, then, I think, it's safe to say that the quaility of your educational system isn't what it should be.