No academic advantage to attending single-sex school, study finds

Outside Muslim countries, Ireland has one of the highest proportions of single-sex schools in the world and is second in Europe only to Malta, which also has a history of religious involvement in education.

There is no academic advantage to attending an all-boys or all-girls school, new research suggests, prompting fresh calls to phase out single-sex education.

Outside Muslim countries, Ireland has one of the highest proportions of single-sex schools in the world and is second in Europe only to Malta, which also has a history of religious involvement in education.