Computer actually says no. Cock-up at University of Ulster

Nearly 400 students have been offered places at the University of Ulster only to be told they were made in error.

An email telling applicants they have been accepted to the University of Ulster’s Faculty of Computing and Engineering was sent to all applicants instead of the ones selected.

The error is being blamed on an IT glitch although you’d expect better from a faculty of computing and engineering.

This means 370 applicants have not really got the course they believed that they had and now have to make other plans as to what Uni to go to.

The Dean of the Faculty Richard Millar  told BBC Ulster that they “can only apologise for that. What we have done is we have contacted everyone by email so that they have had as quick a response to

“As that email had indicated, the actual status of those students is that we have not yet taken a decision on them. As we take a decision on those students, they will be contacted personally.”

Millar continued to apologise to the students let down by this error, “We very much value this, to be able to publicly apologise to those who have been affected and obviously upset by this. And again, to have the opportunity to explain what has happened.”

He added that “Students should use Ucas as the best indication of the status of their application.”