Mary Curnock Cook has a lifetime of priceless career experience within education; that has seen her work across the school system, right to the very top, where she served as Chief Executive Officer of UCAS for several years, and remains one of the UK’s most respected independent advisors within education.

During this time, one thing became alarmingly clear to Curnock Cook: that young men and boys were not being adequately served, and are quietly falling behind in school, at every age, and in nearly every area of education. 

And perhaps more alarming was how so few people, if any, were talking about it. 

‘A deafening policy silence’, as Curnock Cook wrote herself, to describe the betrayal and continued erasure of “the boy girl gap” in school.

Here is my conversation with Mary, about why boys are behind, how this gap is different to others in education, the damage it causes, and what we can do to close it.

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