Letter: GCSEs' success

Friday 27 August 1999 23:02 BST

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Sir: Media coverage of the A-level results is unfairly girl-biased. Front pages show ecstatic girls hugging each other; every radio and television report is dominated by girls. In your UCAS Listings supplement (20 August) you show three jubilant cropped blondes on the cover with not a boy in sight. There is the inevitable pair of girls hugging on your front page (20 August). On pages 4 and 5, girls again outnumber boys by 5:1.

Dr DAVID SMITH

Windsor

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