Lost Boys - How Education is Failing Young Working-Class Men; Challenging us to reconsider ideas about the role of masculinity in the lives of working-class boys and men, this book asks what would cha...

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In this episode, Richard Kemp speaks with Alex Blower about how the education system often fails working-class boys.

Discussing the the various educational challenges facing working-class boys.

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Dr Alex Blower and Dr Jon Rainford,  Boys Impact   Inequalities in educational outcomes for young men from low socioeconomic backgrounds are a key concern for access practitioners. Department for Educ...

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Exploring access to creative degrees and elitism in the creative industries.

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Lost Boys - How Education is Failing Young Working-Class Men; Challenging us to reconsider ideas about the role of masculinity in the lives of working-class boys and men, this book asks what would cha...

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Alex Blower, author of 'Lost Boys: How Education is Failing Young Working-Class Men' which publishes in July, discusses why the popular phrase 'toxic masculi...

An author of our work on access to creative professions explores the research in detail.

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The need to rethink how we support working-class boys has never been more urgent

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Men make up only a third of staff at secondary schools, down from nearly half 30 years ago, amid fears that boys are turning to less positive role models such as Andrew Tate

This article examines race, gender and mental health representations in the visual materials of youth mental health services. Through a dataset comprising 354 images from the websites of 30 service...

Published in Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2025)

Pollsters like Kos Samaras warn that many disengaged young men remain politically untethered, making them susceptible to radicalisation if a Trump-like figure emerges. And Andrew Tate has the perfect ...

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Conversations about parental duties continue to be led by mothers, even if both parents earn the same amount of money, finds a new study by a UCL researcher.

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