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Friday, December 18, 1998 Published at 08:03 GMT
Education
Boys slip further behind girls at school
Girls are performing better in tests at all ages
Boys are continuing to lag behind girls in their school work, according to the latest analysis of test results.
While girls continued to make progress in literacy tests at the age of 11, the results for boys show no improvement compared with last year.
The overall figures, published earlier this year, showed only a slight improvement in literacy results - rising from 63% to 65% of pupils achieving the expected standards.
But the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority has now published details that show that the rise was due to an average improvement of 4% in girls' results.
This continuing lack of improvement among boys threatens the government's ambitious targets for literacy among 11-year-olds, which demands 80% of pupils reaching the expected levels by 2002.
According to the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, the gap between the achievements of boys and girls runs throughout the three levels of tests - at 7, 11 and 14-years-old.
At the youngest age, girls are better at spelling and punctuation, at 11-years-old girls are interpreting stories better and at 14 almost 75% of girls reach the expected levels of literacy, compared to only 57% of boys.
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