University of Teesside

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University of Teesside
Motto Facta Non Verba ("Deeds Not Words")
Established 1930
Type Public
Chancellor Baron Sawyer
Vice-Chancellor Professor Graham Henderson
Faculty 2,170
Students 22,015 [1]
Undergraduates 19,245 <ref name="HESA" />
Postgraduates 2,325 <ref name="HESA" />
Location Middlesbrough, UK
Campus Urban
Affiliations Campaign for Mainstream Universities
Website [1]
The University of Teesside, based in Middlesbrough, UK, has a student body of 20,685 students as of 2005. Recording rises in applications of 11.4%/2.5% for degree courses beginning in 2005/2006 respectively has given Teesside, for two years running, the highest such percentage increases of any university in the North East of England.[2]

Location

The University has been situated since its formation as a Technical College in 1930 in the town of Middlesbrough, within the borough of Middlesbrough in the North Yorkshire area of England on the south banks of the River Tees. With the granting of a town charter not having taken place until 1853, Middlesbrough was famed as a Victorian new town, 19th century industrial powerhouse and, prior to that, as the birthplace of maritime navigator Captain James Cook, one of the most revered of all of ancient Cleveland's imports. Elsewhere on the local tourist trail exist such attractions as the accompanying 'Captain Cook Country Tour', coastal scenery and the North York Moors. Transport links exist via the A19 and A66 roads. The University's entrance is at the site of the old Constantine College building, fronted by the Waterhouse clock tower.

History & Estates

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Constantine Building


While it was clear enough that, when the time came for a successor to the Middlesbrough-based Mechanics' Institute of 1844, a new technical college was in order, a shortage of funding long proved a barrier to any such plan. The College's launch could otherwise have come as early as 1914. Even after the donation of £40,000 in order to build the college from local shipping magnate Joseph Constantine in 1916, progress was slow. A Governing Council took place in 1922, followed by a doubling of the original financial offer by the Constantine family in 1924. For the task of constructing the first Technical College building, Mr G. R. Dawbarn, of London, on 29 March 1926, was appointed as architect.[2] Building work finally kicked into action in 1927, culminating in the beginning of enrollment and teaching formalities on 16 September 1929. But the fanfare had to wait, until the turn of the decade, in order to accommodate the royal schedule.

Constantine Technical College was nonetheless finally opened on July 2, 1930 by the future King Edward VIII, the Prince of Wales. Although not yet a university, from the outset, Constantine was both a further and higher education college. While at one end of the spectrum students at Constantine could be as young as 15, also publicised in its Prospectus were degree courses validated by the University of London. Star disciplines included metallurgy, engineering and chemistry. Five rooms were also reserved for an art department, until cramped accommodation forced the School of Art to split from its parent site for the 1950s.

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University of Teesside on Borough Road


The 1960s were years of sweeping change – as well as political sting – for the still, comparatively fledgling College. Indeed it was by this point that increasing restlessness began to pervade the thoughts of this primarily working class conurbation at the continued absence of an establishment carrying the formalised tag of "university" within the confines of the borough, and indeed by the end of the decade so in earnest began the first two "Teesside University" campaigns: the first, from the early 1960s to 1966, and the second, from 1967 to 1972, spates of enthusiasm killed off on each occasion only by the scepticism of then-Minister of Education, Anthony Crosland, and Margaret Thatcher's defining White Paper, respectively. The latter effectively shelved plans for the erection of, not just any new institution on Teesside, but anywhere else in the United Kingdom, until the 1980s at least.[3]

Back on campus meanwhile, one of the most visible major developments for the College come the Sixties, surviving today, was the extension comprising of an 11-storey "skyscraper", on which construction work began in 1963. Acquiring the neighbouring former High School of 1877 then extended the grounds. All that remained was for the College to briefly restyle itself as Constantine College of Technology, before morphing into a polytechnic (Britain's 13th) in 1969. By now, if still not yet a university, the institution could at least boast 17 degree courses.

Investment in the campus facilities continued apace. A merger with Teesside College of Education took place in the 1970s along with the purchase of Flatts Lane. The Clarendon Building was added in 1973, as was the Stephenson Building in 1976, with both remaining in use for the Polytechnic's long-awaited conversion into a University, its ultimate guise. That happened in June 1992, when Teesside Polytechnic, became one of the United Kingdom's first new universities, adherring to that year's Further and Higher Education Act.

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Victoria Building
By the 1990s student numbers were already nearing the 8,000 mark, but only in 1997 was the old Polytechnic's library replaced, by today's Learning Resource Centre. Subsequent additions included the Virtual Reality Centre and Centre for Enterprise. Today, historic structures such as the old High School (the Waterhouse building), the Constantine building (complete with 'Middlesbrough heritage' plaque) and Victoria Building of 1891 (a schoolyard-equipped Victorian school housing a series of graduate business incubator units), are all Grade II listed buildings.

Today, as in 1930, the long-marketed 'Opportunity University' takes a hands-on role in furthering educational attainment in the region.

Status & Future Developments

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View of the clock tower from Albert Road


Blazing a trail in reposte to the "elitist" higher education establishment, the University has promptly fulfilled the notion of empowering both students and staff, clocking up second place of all English universities in the eyes of the Funding Council for attracting students from untypical addresses - and three National Teaching Fellowships. Hallmarks of the University include the School of Computing and its achievement of an international reputation in the fostering of digital technologies. Adding to this is the fact that six of the most popular Counter Strike: Source servers on the planet, as well as the most popular Desert Combat server on the planet are hosted by the School of Computing.

The construction of an £11m Institute of Digital Innovation, as part of the 2010 DigitalCity project is now underway and the Animex International Festival is also staged there on an annual basis, complementing the University's coverage of animation and computer games. Its regional and national clout is also enhanced in being home to the Northern Region Film and Television Archive.

The higher education QAA has thus far identified pockets of teaching 'excellence' in Art & Design, computer science, history, social work, sport and exercise, electrical and electronic engineering, nursing, the Foundation Degree in chemical technology and a wealth of subjects branching out from medicine.

The first National Student Survey of student satisfaction in the sector, disclosed its findings in September 2005. Over the full range of criterion, the University mustered a score of 4/5 for overall student satisfaction - level with more seasoned contenders such as Leeds and Newcastle. Within Teesside, English, Law and Art & Design fared best, with all three areas within the top 25% of student satisfaction nationally. In the resulting overall 'league table', the University wound up joint 34th of some 101 entrants. It was also during this year that the University scaled the national top 20 for graduate further study or employment (The Times Good University Guide 2005); the highest ranked 'new university'.

The 2006 Times Good University Guide and The Sunday Times university league table respectively have granted it their own overall rankings of 91st out of 100 British universities[3] and joint 75th of 119 institutions respectively, with the attendant National Student Survey on this occasion giving the institution's Art & Design students the nation's unofficial satisfaction 'crown'.[4] University-wide, came echoes of the same overall satisfaction score of 4/5 as that seen the previous year, contributing to an overall rank of joint 70th of 129 recorded institutions[5].

In research, the University offers an array of relevant routes of study resulting in the qualification of MPhil, PhD, MProf and DProf. The star research profile is in History, where a score of 5/5 in the recent 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, placed it on a par with the University of Oxford.

From a student body tallying in the hundreds in the 1930s, Teesside appears to be increasingly sought after among higher education applicants. Statistics for Autumn 2005 entry showed that Computer Art (applications up 41.7%), Electronic and Electrical Engineering (up 30.4%), Sociology (up 25.5%), Psychology (up 18.09%) and Law (applications up 16.8%) were among the courses with the fastest growing popularity within the institution.

The present Vice-Chancellor is Professor Graham Henderson. In April 2005, the University welcomed in Lord Sawyer of Darlington as its new Chancellor, supplanting the University's first, European Commissioner Leon Brittan of Spennithorne.

Faculty

Schools

The University consists of six schools.

Research Centre

  • [Centre for Nano & Microsystems]
  • Centre for Applied Science (CAS)
  • Clean Environment Management Centre (Clemance)
  • Teesside Manufacturing Centre
  • Centre for Forensic Investigation (CFI)
  • Centre for Construction Innovation and Research (CCIR)

Centre for Nano & Microsystem

The Centre for Nano & Microsystem is developing a new facility which will be used for research and investigation in the fields of nanotechnology, microfabrication and miniaturised systems such as 'Lab on a chip', micro fluidics, BioMEMS, and photonics, with a focus on photolithographic processing, wet and dry etching, metallisation and thin film deposition, screen printing and device packaging.

The CNM clean room is 140 square meters in size and comprises two Class 1,000 rooms (white & yellow areas), one Class 100 area, and one Class 10,000 gowning area with an unclassified service chase area.

CNM have assembled a comprehensive polymer replication and manufacturing suite made up of CAD design and tool path assembly, CNC micro-milling for tool fabrication, micro-injection moulding and hot embossing for polymer replication and joining.

Advanced instrumentation available in TCNM are those of surface analysis, electro analysis, dry etching, ultrasonic bonder, photolithography, screen printing, CNC micro milling, hot embossing, injection moulding, laser ablation, metallization and thin film deposition.

Researchers
  • Professor Zulf Ali
  • Dr. Vincent Auger
  • Dr.Meez Islam
  • Dr.Simon Scott
  • Andrew Henderson
  • Mamun Rashid
  • Heather Saxby

Accommodation

There is accommodation provided in self-catered rooms, mostly reserved for first year undergraduate students but also for international students, postgraduates, staff and undergraduates who have been unable to find alternative accommodation. All accommodation is within easy walking distance of University facilities. University have four managed residences (halls, houses and flats), providing 726 places. A further 472 places are available through the University managed housing scheme (properties owned by private landlords but managed by the University).

Self Catered
  • King Edward`s Square
  • Parkside Halls
  • Parkside Houses and Flats
  • Woodland Halls

Students' Union

The Students' Union was named "Students' Union of the Year by BEDA" in 2004 and "Club Mirror Students' Union of the Year" in 2002. The Union's bar, The Terrace Bar, was awarded "Best Bar None" status in 2006.

The Sabbatical Officers for 2007/8 are Stephen Dowson (President), David Fillingham (Student Activities Officer), Jonathan Fearnley (Communications Officer) and the newly elected; Andrew Morwood (Education & Welfare Officer). The Part Time Executive Officers for 2007/8 are Vicky James (Environment), Maddy Holt Gadner (Diversity) James Jalalian (Campaigns) Sarah Armstrong (Non-Portfolio), Ashley James (Activities and Volunteering).

Students are encouraged to get involved in their Students' Union in a variety of ways. There are over 40 clubs and over 20 societies and if their interests aren't covered they are able to set up their own. The Activities and Skills Centre (ASC) will help them to do this, as well as provide the opportunity to get involved in charity work such as Raise and Give (RAG) and Student Community Action (SCA).

P.T.O. is the Students' Union's monthly newspaper and students are able to get involved as Media and Marketing Assistants by becoming editors, writers, reporters, critics, photographers and designers.

Union Senate is held once a month and in this meeting the key issues affecting students are debated, motions are passed and the Executive Committee are held to account. The Chair and Vice Chair of Union Senate are elected to these posts at the Annual General Meeting (AGM). There are plenty of committees for students to get involved with, such as Finance and Elections.

Recently, the university and the student's union won the 2007 It's Not Funny competition, winning a live comedy performance featuring Bill Bailey, Marcus Brigstocke, Andrew Maxwell and Simon Amstell.

People

Principals of Constantine Technical College

1928–1930D. H. Ingall, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.I.C.
1931–1936T. J. Murray, M.Sc., F.I.C.
1936–1947H. V. Field, B.Sc., M.I.E.E.
1947–1955S. A. R. Clark, M.Sc. (Tech.), M.I.Mech.E., M.I.I.A.
1955–1961G. S. Atkinson, B.Sc., Ph.D
1961–1970J. Houghton, B.Sc. (Eng), Ph.D., A.M.I.Mech.E., A.F.R.Ae.S.,C.F.[4]

Chancellors of the University of Teesside

1993–2005Leon Brittan, Baron Brittan of Spennithorne
2005–presentTom Sawyer, Baron Sawyer of Darlington

Notable staff

Notable alumni

Image gallery


Middlesbrough Tower

Olympia Building (Opened by Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2004)

Student Union & Refectory Building
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The Sexiest Man on Campus


References

1. ^ Table 0a - All students by institution, mode of study, level of study, gender and domicile 2005/06. Higher Education Statistics Agency online statistics. Retrieved on 2007-03-31.
2. ^ Lillie, William (1968). The History of Middlesbrough: An Illustration of the Evolution of English Industry. The Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the County Borough of Middlesbrough. Middlesbrough Corporation. 
3. ^ Leonard, J. W. (1981). Constantine College. Teesside Polytechnic. 
4. ^ Leonard, J. W. (1981). Constantine College. Teesside Polytechnic. 
5. ^ MP becomes a time traveller. University of Teesside Website. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.

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