The children’s commissioner has said girls “do like hard maths” in an apparent criticism of another government tsar’s previous comments about girls’ dislike of taking A-level physics.
Speaking at the Confederation of School Trusts’ annual conference in Birmingham on Friday, Dame Rachel de Souza said she had opened Sir Isaac Newton, a maths and science post-16 free school in Norwich, adding: “I just want to tell you that in my view, girls like hard maths.
