A solid introduction to why boys underachieve at school that will enable all teachers to identify the main problems and plan a way forward.

Gary Wilson is a freelance consultant and author, and chair of the National Education Breakthrough Programme on Raising Boys' Achievement in the UK. He wrote "Using the National Healthy School Standard to Raise Boys' Achievement" for the DFE and in 2003 was made the country's first LEA school improvement officer with specific responsibility for raising boys' achievement. He has advised and trained in over two hundred schools across the UK. He has appeared on Teachers' TV and Radio 4 several times. Gary Wilson also runs training sessions based on the book Breaking through Barriers to Boys Achievements with Osiris Educational