ABSTRACT
The medical profession was largely convinced that secondary and higher education for women would lead to brain fever, sterility, and even death. The data from Lancaster include material on women, and the failure of the PSI team and the Winfield Report to cite them is inexplicable and undermines their credibility. Both the PSI team and the Winfield committee have ignored published British research relevant to their enquiries which provided information on women. The university student statistics are published by the University Grants Commission, and the Council for National Academic Awards publish figures on postgraduates in polytechnics and institutes of higher education. A policy of concentrating studentships in a few institutions discriminates against the potential student who is not mobile so this unexamined assumption has policy implications. Schools can legitimately complain that their female pupils are not being given a fair chance of a University education, and protest about the removal of their chances of higher education with college closures.
