Second chancers

Fifty new entrants to Dundee University have won their places through its intensive ten-week summer school that aims to bring people with a disrupted education up to university entrance standard. Among them was Kirsty Mills who lost confidence after a false start on a college course. "Ten weeks ago, I was on the dole. Now I have a place at university, I'm moving into a flat," she said.

Course director John Blicharski said the course, launched in 1993, had helped more than 400 disadvantaged students enter university.