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Neddam, Fabrice – Gender and Education, 2004
Thomas Arnold has been a controversial figure for historians of the English public schools. He has been depicted either as the great reformer of these famous institutions or as an ordinary head master who did not do better than his contemporary colleagues. This article seeks to continue the debate about the assessment of his head master-ship by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Historians, Masculinity, Educational Policy
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Smith, Fiona – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2004
This paper explores the results of an 18-month study at Brunel University that aimed to explain the significant gendered differences in academic performance amongst geography students. Male students are doing considerably less well than their female peers, being awarded far fewer first class and upper second class degrees, a phenomenon that cannot…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Geography