Coming to university is a big life experience for anyone, but for Tsian Deslandes it was huge. 

Within two weeks she’d gone from working in a shop in her home of Trinidad to studying at the University of Plymouth. 

Supporting her single mum to look after her grandma, and not convinced she was clever enough to go to university, she completed her A levels and was working out what to do next.

But her mum encouraged her to consider Clearing and, after a phone call and emails to confirm her place, there was nowhere else Tsian wanted to go.