Gender Gap in Teaching Grows: Only 24% of New Recruits are Men (EUROPE)

Teaching is becoming an increasingly female-dominated profession with men making up less than one in four new recruits, official figures revealed yesterday.

Despite a multimillion-pound campaign to attract more men into teaching, the latest statistics reveal a widening gap between the sexes among those gaining teaching qualifications from universities and teacher training colleges.

In 2006-07, less than a quarter (23.8 percent) of teaching qualifications were obtained by men, according to figures published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency—the lowest figure in five years.

This was a fall of 1.5 percent from the previous year.

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(The Independent 09.26.08)