Boys Education

Males make up fewer than one percent of early childhood teachers and one in five primary school teachers, so it is perhaps not surprising that male students are falling behind in what is essentially now a female dominated environment. Boys make up close to three-quarters of referrals for literacy help, speech/language therapy and behavioural difficulties. At the higher end, women make up nearly 60% of our University population now and this percentage appears to be growing.

It is UnitedFuture policy to:

• Address the growing achievement gap between male and female students.
• Encourage more men to join the teaching profession at all levels.
• Investigate the use of single-sex classrooms within coeducational schools.
• Find other ways to make the current educational environment more boy-friendly, without being detrimental to female students.