Teens benefit from early taste of college life

AN early taste of higher education is helping disadvantaged and migrant teenagers make up their minds about going to college.

The Discover University programme at National College of Ireland (NCI) brought more than 30 youngsters from inner city Dublin and from the capital’s migrant communities together over the past week. They worked on a variety of projects on the campus at the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) and also received an insight they might not otherwise be given into college life.

Deborah Somorin, a 16-year-old from Drumcondra, has lived in Dublin for seven years and her parents are from Nigeria.