A-level reforms could have helped boys achieve better results

The latest A-level results suggest the tide could be starting to turn on the relative performance of boys and girls.The exams are perceived as favourable to boys by some educationalists, who have argued they are less likely to work consistently and prefer to throw all their preparations into a final, decisive exam as opposed to continuous assessment.Alan Smithers, director of the Centre for Education and Employment Research at the University of Buckingham, said when modular qualifications were i