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class="MsoNormal">Nearly 400 students have been offered places at a university in Northern Ireland only to be told they were made in error.

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class="MsoNormal">The gaffe is being blamed on an IT glitch.

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class="MsoNormal">They now face an agonising wait as the University of Ulster’s Faculty of Computing and Engineering works out how to resolve the situation.

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class="MsoNormal">They also have to clarify who to actually offer places to.

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class="MsoNormal">Everyone who applied for a place was told they had been accepted.

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class="MsoNormal">Some had already turned down other places at different universities.

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class="MsoNormal">The University of Ulster has apologised to those affected.

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class="MsoNormal">It says it deeply regrets what happened and is sorry to those who received the e-mail.