“I want them to do what they want to do.”ĭame Athene Donald, a professor of experimental physics and master of Churchill College, Cambridge, said the comments were “terrifying” and “quite damaging” and questioned to which research Birbalsingh was referring in suggesting that girls had an intrinsic lack of appetite for maths and physics. “I don’t mind that there’s only 16%,” she said. “I don’t think there’s anything external.”īirbalsingh, a French and philosophy graduate, said she was “certainly not out there campaigning” for more girls to do physics. “The research generally … just says that’s a natural thing,” she added. There’s a lot of hard maths in there that I think they would rather not do.” When asked why so few girls progressed to physics A-level, despite outperforming boys at GCSE, she said: “I just think they don’t like it. ![]() Birbalsingh, who is headteacher of Michaela Community school in Wembley, north-west London, said that only 16% of A-level physics students at her school were girls – lower than the national average of 23%.
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