Girls with top science GCSEs 'deterred from study at higher level'

Only dramatic intervention would change girls’ low take-up of physics and maths, the researchers said.Girls achieving top grades in science and maths at GCSE are deterred from continuing to a higher level with such subjects, including physics, because they are affected by low confidence and an absence of peers in the classroom, research has found.As hundreds of thousands of pupils await the results of the GCSE exams on Thursday, a study, published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, sugge