UNIVERSITY College Chester's journalism programme will play host for a day to 33 pupils from three Ellesmere Port high schools - Stanney, Sutton and Ellesmere Port Catholic - on Monday, July 5.

The pupils will be given the training and opportunity to each produce a newsletter on university life which will incorporate the results of interviews conducted by them around the campus, accompanied by photographs taken by them and presented in their own layout.

The newsletters will be produced in the college's journalism newsroom.

The best articles will be collated by the Excellence Challenge Co-ordinator on the University College Chester journalism programme, Danny Morrell.

The project has been funded by the Ellesmere Port and Neston education authority and is aimed at encouraging pupils, who might never have considered higher education, to think of university as a career option. This project is part of Excellence Challenge Week hosted by University College Chester.

The day follows a two-hour morning session, again hosted by University College Chester's journalism programme, staged on Wednesday for 24 Wirral pupils, funded by the European Social Fund.

This project aims to encourage, inspire and inform pupils about university opportunities.