Vice-Chancellor highlights University’s contribution to region

Professor Graham Henderson, the University of Teesside’s Vice-Chancellor, has highlighted the University’s expanding campus, and its contribution to the region, in his speech to this year’s graduates. The University has ten graduation ceremonies at Middlesbrough Town Hall this week, attended by 2,500 graduates and 5,000 family members and friends.

Professor Henderson will tell the audiences: “As you will see when you visit the campus, work is well underway on two more iconic new buildings, the Institute of Digital Innovation and the Centre for Creative Technologies. These buildings which will be the ninth and tenth to be constructed on the University site in the last decade, at a total cost in excess of £100 million.

“And we have also expanded our facilities off-campus with the opening of a new £2 million University centre on the new college campus in Darlington. This development will soon be mirrored in similar University centres at Hartlepool College and at Middlesbrough College’s new campus at Middlehaven.

Professor Henderson added: “Our success is not only benefiting the University, but also the town and the wider Tees Valley.

“In fact, it was nice for me to be able to receive into the University less than two weeks ago, a group of visitors from the south east who had been directed to look at Teesside as an example of how a University can take a leading role in local regeneration and economic development. I hope that as you walk back to the University you will be able to observe the physical evidence of the way in which we, in partnership with Middlesbrough council and other key agencies, are really beginning to make inroads into changing the nature and image of the town.”

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