Sarah Harte: One size rarely fits all when it comes to educating our children

Parents who want send their children to single-sex schools are often characterised as out of touch or deluded — but this is not helpful

Cheerful female students wearing blue school uniforms walking in locker room

Our education system is rarely out of the news, but there’s nothing like a spate of headlines on single-sex schools to get a swathe of columns penned in response.

A study has found that, on average, having adjusted for factors such as socioeconomic backgrounds, there was no academic advantage to attending single-sex schools.