19 August 2004

Summer School graduation

Photo opportunity 7.10pm, Friday 20th August, Tower Building Reception, University of Dundee.

University of Dundee Rector Lorraine Kelly will be present as 68 students graduate from the University's Access Summer School tomorrow (Friday 20 August) before they prepare to embark on their degree courses in September.

The ceremony will mark the end of an intensive ten week course which gives candidates who had fallen short of standard entry requirements the opportunity to prove their ability for a degree course. 60 of the students will start degree courses in subjects ranging from architecture to zoology at the University of Dundee this year.

Wider Access Study Centre Director, Dr John Blicharski said: "The students have worked very hard to prove to us, and themselves, that they are ready and able to earn a degree. We are delighted that so many have made the grade and been able to enjoy their success tonight in the presence of so many friends.

This is the twelfth year that the course has run, so far enabling nearly 700 students to enter degree-level study."

The ceremony will be followed by a celebratory party in the Dundee University Students Association.

Contact John Blicharski on 01382 344124

By Jenny Marra, Head of Press 01382 344910, out of hours: 07968298585, j.m.marra@dundee.ac.uk