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Now, teaching computing is a quite different degree to everything else.
Every year we get about 250 students, they're all male, and we've got 5 women mainly, so
the female voice is not as loud as we would expect, so that was the first issue I had,
how to make the girls come to you and talk to you, not to be afraid and all that. Then
again, you have all these different courses that you're teaching and you've got the different
disability issues, different background, cultural issues, so you have loads of people who are
afraid to come and talk to you, tell you that I have a problem, or I don't understand this
or that. So by having students enabling students basically, you give them the opportunity to
talk to someone who's closer to their age, their understanding, they basically share
the same kind of feelings.