RIGHT OF REPLY | Conversation about boys’ and girls’ schools is worth having, but let’s get some things right
Rondebosch Boys’ headmaster Shaun Simpson pens response to Prof Jonathan Jansen’s column, ‘No, man, boys’ and girls’ schools have run their course’
06 June 2025 - 04:30
I read an article recently in The Economist about how some of the world’s finest universities are painting themselves into a corner. Once seen as the bastion of unbiased, balanced and peer reviewed research, the reach of social media as a different kind of not-so-peer review has led to a good number of papers and professors having their methodology and confirmation biases called out and questioned...
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