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More parents believe that their daughters should go to university than their sons, according to a new survey.
Boys also have lower university aspirations than girls, the study by the research firm Kirk-land Rowell found.
The survey of 137,000 parents and 288,000 pupils across Britain suggested that girls’ academic superiority at school may be leading more boys to turn their backs on education.
Government funding chiefs have given warning that men could find it difficult to secure well-paid work in future as women increasingly dominate university courses.
The new research, reported in The Times Educational Supplement, found that 66.7 per cent of parents with daughters aged 11 to 16 said it was important that their child went to university.
But only 61.5 per cent of parents felt the same about their sons.

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