The answer seems to be that we are living in a society that is implicitly (or worse, explicitly) giving girls the message that they are not as good as boys in these subjects (Riverdog Productions) Now ...

Choosing A-Levels can feel stressful for both students and parents. Some subjects are known to be harder because they need strong maths skills, long essays, or complex problem-solving. Many families ...

The chair of the Department for Education’s Social Mobility Commission thinks girls are rejecting physics at school because they dislike “hard maths”. Speaking at the parliamentary Science and ...

From trigonometry to calculus and vectors to geometry, few students take A-level mathematics thinking it's going to be an easy subject. But for Daily Mail readers who know their sequences from their ...

Towards the end of A levels, the Further Mathematics class of a batch usually comes down to a fifth of its initial size. Being arguably the most difficult subject out of all the A levels, Further ...

Ofsted's chief inspector has said it is "terribly unfortunate" the government's social mobility tsar suggested girls do not study physics at A-level because they dislike "hard maths". Katharine ...

Mathematics at A-level is going from strength to strength. Maths is the most popular subject choice, and further maths, which is a separate A-level course, has seen the most growth in uptake. Despite ...

The government’s social mobility tsar has faced a backlash after claiming low uptake of physics among girls was because they dislike “hard maths”. Katharine Birbalsingh told a Commons science and ...