Over the last five years, only 24 per cent of A Level Music Technology students have been female, a freedom of information request to Ofqual has revealed.
Data obtained by MT has confirmed that there is an ‘alarming’ gender disparity in A Level Music Technology in England, with only one quarter of students taking the qualification between 2018 and 2022 being recorded as female.
The FOI also revealed the grade breakdown each year, demonstrating that grades received in Music Technology have followed a similar pattern to Music and other subjects during and following the peak of the pandemic. The percentage of students of both genders receiving A* or A was 9 per cent in 2019, rose to 25 per cent and 34 per cent in 2020 and 2021 respectively, and sat at 29 per cent in 2022.
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