A report in the Telegraph earlier this year warned that boys were becoming a “disadvantaged group” in the UK because a third more girls had applied for places at Uni.
But the gender gap isn’t as wide here in the Island – latest figures show that just over half the number of places filled by Jersey students are girls and 46% are boys.
Last year’s GCSE results in England showed a record gender divide – almost a quarter of exams saw girls get grades A* or A, compared with less than 18% of boys. Here boys are doing much better although the girls slightly outperformed them in almost all A level subjects in 2013 apart from IT where boys appear to be more switched on.
Girls proved to be better read in English literature – 89% got grades A* to C compared to 85% of boys.
The numbers didn’t add up so well for boys in Maths – 78 % of them got grades A* to C, 10% fewer than girls.
Girls used more of their brain cells in Biology too – 80% of them got A* to C grades compared to 68% of boys.
Both sexes proved to be like-minded when it came to psychology though – 74% of girls and boys got grades A* to C.