The prospective student from Stockton-on-Tees visited campus with his mother, grandmother, and aunts.

He stated that he wanted to study Physics. Since we did not offer a degree in this subject, I started ‘selling’ Computing and Engineering, highlighting that two of the professors in the School were from his home town.

He wasn’t persuaded by me, but when he heard the University choir along the corridor practising for the Christmas concert, he declared ‘I want to study at a University where people can sing like that!’