Education - North East Education News - Teesside University 80th Anniversary

How an £80,000 gift was the seed of Teesside University

Education — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:00:00 GMT

IT was described as the greatest gift ever to the town of Middlesbrough. An £80,000 donation by the family of Joseph Constantine towards the building of a new technical college provided the impetus needed to get the project off the ground.

The benefactor who left a legacy of learning

Education — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:00:00 GMT

ORIGINALLY from France, the Constantine family, like so many of their contemporaries, came to England as immigrants.

When a future King came to town

Education — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:00:00 GMT

FRED Gray, now 89, vividly recalls the day the future King Edward VIII came to Middlesbrough 80 years ago to open Constantine College and offer some cheer to a town that was down on its luck and suffering from widespread poverty and soaring unemployment.

Teesside's success was a testament to talent

Education — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:00:00 GMT

IF you had told people just 25 years ago that Middlesbrough would not only have its own university, but that in 2009 it would be declared University of the Year by the Times Higher Education magazine, they would have given you very strange looks.

How the college set Molly on her career path

Education — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:00:00 GMT

MOLLY Moody’s two years’ studying at Constantine College stood her in very good stead for her chosen career.

Happy years that changed Ted's life

Education — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:00:00 GMT

TED Brown was the first employee of the Anderson Foundry in Middlesbrough to be given day-release by the firm to attend Constantine College during the War years.

The year man walked on the moon and Teesside gained a poly

Education — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:00:00 GMT

IT was the year the world was astounded by images of Neil Armstrong stepping tentatively on the surface of the moon and uttering those unforgettable words: “One small step for man … One giant leap for mankind”.

Memories of college life

Education — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Walter Severs, a student at Constantine College in the 1940s and 50s wrote this about his time there.

A 'magnificent' library at the heart of campus

Education — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:00:00 GMT

TEESSIDE University’s library’s roots go back to 1929 and the opening of Constantine College which trained workers for industry.

Keeping it in the family

Education — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:00:00 GMT

PHIL Willers felt he was joining a family when he travelled from London’s East End to Middlesbrough to meet Bill Greig, the then head of mathematics and computing at Constantine College.

Animated Teesside

Education — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:00:00 GMT

SIOBHAN Fenton is one a growing band of women who are breaking into the once male-dominated world of computing.

The first decade as a unversity

Education — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT

From the Privy Council’s formal announcement approving Teesside Polytechnic becoming the University of Teesside on June 16, 1992 to building a campus fit for the 21st century, it was amazing how much progress was made in the first ten years of university status.

Eighty years' service to the region