Educational Leadership

As the long-running debate about single-sex schools intensifies – and more Sydney boys’ schools shift to co-ed – the popularity of girls’ schools continues to grow.

The single sex versus co-ed debate has been going for decades. But perhaps changing social norms will put an end to it.

It is abysmal behaviour and the boys from St Kevin's may need to pay some kind of price, but if we think punishment alone can resolve this issue, we are mistaken, writes Justin Coulson.

Do all-boys’ schools breed hypermasculine behaviour? Are all-girl schools better for girls?

You would think you school choice is one of – if not the most – important decision a parent is ever going to make for their child.

For an increasing number of influential boys school alumni, misogyny and sexism showing up at their loved alma mater, via the media, can no longer be ignored.

To experts such as Helen Proctor, who studies education through a historical prism, it’s surprising the all-boys model is still with us.

Men will continue to participate in a culture that denigrates women wherever they are raised in an environment that celebrates their exceptional status as wealthy men.

All-boys schools are considering their role in 2019 amid conversations about the #MeToo movement, toxic masculinity and gender equality

With a growing number of single-sex schools in Australia converting to co-ed, Samantha Selinger-Morris looks at how attending gender segregated schools impacts students' emotional wellbeing and worldview.