Photo Opportunity approx. 7pm - 7.15pm at end of formal ceremony, Tower steps.
300 guests attended the 2003 University of Dundee Access Summer School Concluding Ceremony tonight to help 70 student celebrate their success. This year the course received 262 enquiries from which 79 students were selected for the 11th running of the course. 69 students remained enrolled on the course until the end and 60 now have offers to become new undergraduates next month - others are busy negotiating.
Top female student, and winner of the St Katherine’s Fund prize has had an especially busy week. On Wednesday she discovered that she had earned an undergraduate place in Social Work - 4 days after appearing on the front page of the Courier for having saved herself, her seventh-month-old son and neighbours from a potentially fatal flat fire caused by a neighbours cooker.
Director of the Wider Access Study Centre which runs the course, Dr John Blicharski, was delighted by the results which sees 32 additional Arts & Social Science entrants, 3 future lawyers, 5 accountants, 12 Life Science and 4 Engineering and Physical Science students, 1 entrant to Community Education, 1 to Social Work and last but not least one Architect begin their undergraduate studies next month.
"After a long, hard and at times hot summer, we are delighted to see so many these students crossing the finish line to earn an undergraduate place. We know from monitoring the performance of their predecessors that they have every chance to go on to be some of our top students".
Contact John Blicharski 01382 344124
By Jenny Marra, Head of Press 01382 344910 j.m.marra@dundee.ac.uk