The Education Committee has launched a new inquiry into why boys consistently underperform compared with girls in educational attainment across all age groups and nearly all ethnicities, and examine ways to improve outcomes.
In 2022/23 the attainment gap at GCSE level between girls and boys tightened to its smallest difference for 14 years. But with 24.9% of girls achieving grade 7 or A compared with 19.1% of boys, there was still a significant variation of nearly 6%.
Boys also performed worse at a number of phases and on various measures in the 2022/23 academic year.
According to (DfE) Department for Education data, in the autumn term boys were nearly twice as likely as girls to be suspended, and slightly more than twice as likely to be permanently excluded.
