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This paper reviews a sequence of studies carried out on newly enrolled higher education students covering four successive intakes from 1986–1989. The latter two studies, (covering 1988 and 1989), where factors involved in the choice not to study computing were investigated, will be given greater weight.
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Durndell, A. (1991). Choice and Image: Gender and Computer Studies in Higher Education. In: Lovegrove, G., Segal, B. (eds) Women into Computing. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3875-4_23
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