Parents have higher education hopes for daughters than sons

Tyrael · #1 5th-May-2007

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Parents have higher education hopes for daughters than sons

By LAURA CLARK, Education reporter - Last updated at 19:07pm on 4th May 2007

Parents now have higher expectations that their daughters will go university than their sons, a new survey revealed.

Mothers' desire to see their daughters benefit from opportunities that were denied previous generations of women is fuelling the trend.

Parental ambitions for girls from an early age is believed to be driving their increasing academic success at school.

Boys are now outperformed at all levels of the education system and make up fewer than half of students graduating from university.

If the trend continues, government funding chiefs have already warned that men could find it increasingly difficult to find well-paid work.

The research came as teachers suggested boys were more likely to want to follow the example of entrepeneurs such as Sir Alan Sugar and Sir Richard Branson and set up their own businesses rather than continuing in education.

Analysts surveyed 137,000 parents and 288,000 pupils at more than 500 secondary schools and found marked differences in aspirations for girls and boys.

The research found 66.7 per cent of parents with daughters aged between 11 and 16 said it was important their child went to university.

However only 61.5 per cent of parents felt the same about their sons.

Girls were also more ambitious themselves, with 79.9 per cent saying they wanted to go to university compared with 75.2 per cent of boys questioned for the research.

Academics pointed to a dramatic shift in society's attitudes in little more than a generation.

Alan Smithers, professor of education at Buckingham University, said, "When I was at school girls were forced to leave at 16 because more education wasn't thought to be good for them.
"They needed to get practical skills and become secretaries until they settled down and got married."

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Some other people said:

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Alan Smithers, professor of education at Buckingham University, said, "When I was at school girls were forced to leave at 16 because more education wasn't thought to be good for them.

So propaganda has finially beat out real history and replaced it with lies. This is a professor who says this! Maybe, just maybe, it's better for men to become self-scholars instead of spending tons of money to learn false history. Maybe that's the real reason, even if just subconsciously, men are not going to college.

Of course parents believe their daughters will go to college more then their sons, society is bankrolling it and pushing that agenda like it's wartime propaganda.

Women forced to leave at 16! Please, I will make a solid bet it was men, more then any other type of person, that forced to leave school to GO TO WORK! Not women.

There is alot of idiots out there that believe falsehoods like women couldn't have bank accounts, women couldn't have cars. Bullshit. My great grandmother had her own resturant, ran by her and her daughters, they all had bank accounts, they all drove cars, they bought their own properties with their own homes.

A time will come when women and their college professors will be forced into concentration camps for re-education. A re-education back to reality that is.

Around 6 in 10 new graduates are now female.

Of course, as I've said countless times, a society in which more men than women are educated and work is more stable than the reverse. This is due to two main factors:

1. Women virtually always want to partner up with a man of greater stature than themselves, meaning if you have a society where the women earn more than the men you will not have a stable base of couples forming marriages.

2. If women don't have a 'career' they are often looked after financially by the husband in exchange for raising his children and looking after the house. But if men don't have any work, its rare for a women to be eager about supporting them. So, in a very simplified summary: out of work women become mothers and home-makers, out of work men become drifters, outside of society and potential troublemakers.

These are the two main reasons why this is a problem. There are others, such as the fact that training loads of women for important professions like medicine and dentistry leaves you with a shortage because so many women 'retire' after about 5-10 years of working.

By the way, this difference:

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"Girls were also more ambitious themselves, with 79.9 per cent saying they wanted to go to university compared with 75.2 per cent of boys questioned for the research."

4.7 % is not significant.

Tyrael · #2 5th-May-2007

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Parents have higher education hopes for daughters than sons

By LAURA CLARK, Education reporter - Last updated at 19:07pm on 4th May 2007

Parents now have higher expectations that their daughters will go university than their sons, a new survey revealed.

Mothers' desire to see their daughters benefit from opportunities that were denied previous generations of women is fuelling the trend.

Parental ambitions for girls from an early age is believed to be driving their increasing academic success at school.

Boys are now outperformed at all levels of the education system and make up fewer than half of students graduating from university.

If the trend continues, government funding chiefs have already warned that men could find it increasingly difficult to find well-paid work.

The research came as teachers suggested boys were more likely to want to follow the example of entrepeneurs such as Sir Alan Sugar and Sir Richard Branson and set up their own businesses rather than continuing in education.

Analysts surveyed 137,000 parents and 288,000 pupils at more than 500 secondary schools and found marked differences in aspirations for girls and boys.

The research found 66.7 per cent of parents with daughters aged between 11 and 16 said it was important their child went to university.

However only 61.5 per cent of parents felt the same about their sons.

Girls were also more ambitious themselves, with 79.9 per cent saying they wanted to go to university compared with 75.2 per cent of boys questioned for the research.

Academics pointed to a dramatic shift in society's attitudes in little more than a generation.

Alan Smithers, professor of education at Buckingham University, said, "When I was at school girls were forced to leave at 16 because more education wasn't thought to be good for them.
"They needed to get practical skills and become secretaries until they settled down and got married."

Link.

Some other people said:

Quote:

Alan Smithers, professor of education at Buckingham University, said, "When I was at school girls were forced to leave at 16 because more education wasn't thought to be good for them.

So propaganda has finially beat out real history and replaced it with lies. This is a professor who says this! Maybe, just maybe, it's better for men to become self-scholars instead of spending tons of money to learn false history. Maybe that's the real reason, even if just subconsciously, men are not going to college.

Of course parents believe their daughters will go to college more then their sons, society is bankrolling it and pushing that agenda like it's wartime propaganda.

Women forced to leave at 16! Please, I will make a solid bet it was men, more then any other type of person, that forced to leave school to GO TO WORK! Not women.

There is alot of idiots out there that believe falsehoods like women couldn't have bank accounts, women couldn't have cars. Bullshit. My great grandmother had her own resturant, ran by her and her daughters, they all had bank accounts, they all drove cars, they bought their own properties with their own homes.

A time will come when women and their college professors will be forced into concentration camps for re-education. A re-education back to reality that is.

Around 6 in 10 new graduates are now female.

Of course, as I've said countless times, a society in which more men than women are educated and work is more stable than the reverse. This is due to two main factors:

1. Women virtually always want to partner up with a man of greater stature than themselves, meaning if you have a society where the women earn more than the men you will not have a stable base of couples forming marriages.

2. If women don't have a 'career' they are often looked after financially by the husband in exchange for raising his children and looking after the house. But if men don't have any work, its rare for a women to be eager about supporting them. So, in a very simplified summary: out of work women become mothers and home-makers, out of work men become drifters, outside of society and potential troublemakers.

These are the two main reasons why this is a problem. There are others, such as the fact that training loads of women for important professions like medicine and dentistry leaves you with a shortage because so many women 'retire' after about 5-10 years of working.

By the way, this difference:

Quote:

"Girls were also more ambitious themselves, with 79.9 per cent saying they wanted to go to university compared with 75.2 per cent of boys questioned for the research."

4.7 % is not significant.

Tyrael · #3 5th-May-2007

Quote:

Parents have higher education hopes for daughters than sons

By LAURA CLARK, Education reporter - Last updated at 19:07pm on 4th May 2007

Parents now have higher expectations that their daughters will go university than their sons, a new survey revealed.

Mothers' desire to see their daughters benefit from opportunities that were denied previous generations of women is fuelling the trend.

Parental ambitions for girls from an early age is believed to be driving their increasing academic success at school.

Boys are now outperformed at all levels of the education system and make up fewer than half of students graduating from university.

If the trend continues, government funding chiefs have already warned that men could find it increasingly difficult to find well-paid work.

The research came as teachers suggested boys were more likely to want to follow the example of entrepeneurs such as Sir Alan Sugar and Sir Richard Branson and set up their own businesses rather than continuing in education.

Analysts surveyed 137,000 parents and 288,000 pupils at more than 500 secondary schools and found marked differences in aspirations for girls and boys.

The research found 66.7 per cent of parents with daughters aged between 11 and 16 said it was important their child went to university.

However only 61.5 per cent of parents felt the same about their sons.

Girls were also more ambitious themselves, with 79.9 per cent saying they wanted to go to university compared with 75.2 per cent of boys questioned for the research.

Academics pointed to a dramatic shift in society's attitudes in little more than a generation.

Alan Smithers, professor of education at Buckingham University, said, "When I was at school girls were forced to leave at 16 because more education wasn't thought to be good for them.
"They needed to get practical skills and become secretaries until they settled down and got married."

Link.

Some other people said:

Quote:

Alan Smithers, professor of education at Buckingham University, said, "When I was at school girls were forced to leave at 16 because more education wasn't thought to be good for them.

So propaganda has finially beat out real history and replaced it with lies. This is a professor who says this! Maybe, just maybe, it's better for men to become self-scholars instead of spending tons of money to learn false history. Maybe that's the real reason, even if just subconsciously, men are not going to college.

Of course parents believe their daughters will go to college more then their sons, society is bankrolling it and pushing that agenda like it's wartime propaganda.

Women forced to leave at 16! Please, I will make a solid bet it was men, more then any other type of person, that forced to leave school to GO TO WORK! Not women.

There is alot of idiots out there that believe falsehoods like women couldn't have bank accounts, women couldn't have cars. Bullshit. My great grandmother had her own resturant, ran by her and her daughters, they all had bank accounts, they all drove cars, they bought their own properties with their own homes.

A time will come when women and their college professors will be forced into concentration camps for re-education. A re-education back to reality that is.

Around 6 in 10 new graduates are now female.

Of course, as I've said countless times, a society in which more men than women are educated and work is more stable than the reverse. This is due to two main factors:

1. Women virtually always want to partner up with a man of greater stature than themselves, meaning if you have a society where the women earn more than the men you will not have a stable base of couples forming marriages.

2. If women don't have a 'career' they are often looked after financially by the husband in exchange for raising his children and looking after the house. But if men don't have any work, its rare for a women to be eager about supporting them. So, in a very simplified summary: out of work women become mothers and home-makers, out of work men become drifters, outside of society and potential troublemakers.

These are the two main reasons why this is a problem. There are others, such as the fact that training loads of women for important professions like medicine and dentistry leaves you with a shortage because so many women 'retire' after about 5-10 years of working.

By the way, this difference:

Quote:

"Girls were also more ambitious themselves, with 79.9 per cent saying they wanted to go to university compared with 75.2 per cent of boys questioned for the research."

4.7 % is not significant.

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