Female physicists question ‘terrifying’ claims made by government commissioner Katharine Birbalsingh to MPs Girls do not choose physics A-level because they dislike “hard maths”, the government’s ...

Business studies and physics are booming, while entries for French and German have sunk to a record low, this year’s A-level results show. There is also evidence that the gap in performance between ...

The government’s social mobility tsar has faced a backlash after claiming low uptake of physics among girls was because they dislike “hard maths”. Katharine Birbalsingh told a Commons science and ...