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Teesside University awards Honorary Doctorates to industry leaders

Alumni support elite football event

Girls explore digital careers at state-of-the-art new Teesside University facility

Teesside University start-ups Selected for prestigious Tranzfuser 2025 programme

Teesside University to create ‘green corridor’ in the North East

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Bridging research and reality - What collaboration can do for tackling inequality in the Tees Valley

In the face of rising inequality, deepening disadvantage and the complex social and economic challenges facing many of our communities in the North East, one thing is certain: no school or institution can solve these issues alone. It takes collective effort, and place-based collaboration, to facilitate authentic and sustainable change.

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Supporting COP29 objectives through innovative courses

Julia Rockliffe is an accomplished Programme Manager who leads the sustainability training partnership with Teesside University. The goal of this is to ensure that much needed green skills training courses are developed and made available to businesses. Julia has a wealth of experience within sustainability, managing a number of UK Government climate change mitigation programmes, green homes initiatives, as well as acting as a local food growth champion. Here she explains how new short courses, developed in partnership with Teesside University, can help businesses meet COP29 targets.

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COP29: Supporting the move to decarbonisation

As COP29 draws to a close, the global stage is again set to address the most pressing climate issues of our time. The summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, has already been dubbed the 'Finance COP' and with good reason—funding and the mechanisms that govern its flow will be at the core of all meaningful climate action. For those of us who work at the intersection of industry and sustainability, particularly within industrial clusters, COP29 represents both a critical juncture and a unique opportunity to accelerate decarbonisation in sectors traditionally challenging to abate.

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Why David Hockney’s Bigger and Closer is an important step forward for immersive art shows

23/02/2023
Simon McKeown

Artist David Hockney has ridden many technological waves. While his mark-making has remained resolutely painterly, he has challenged the practice of painting. He was an early adopter of computer-assisted drawing, using the iPad and iPhone.

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Shin splints: an expert explains how to avoid them

01/02/2023
Nathan Liddle

So you’re out for a leisurely jog and everything is going great – until you start to feel pain. That distinctive, shooting pain, up your shin. Even when you stop running, every time you put weight on your foot soreness shoots up your lower leg. There’s little doubt: you’ve got shin splints.

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Winter of discontent: how similar is today’s situation?

05/12/2022
Christopher Massey

The UK government is battening down the hatches for a wave of strikes in December and January. Railway workers, nurses, ambulance workers, civil servants and postal staff are all set to take industrial action in the coming weeks in protest at wages not keeping up with inflation, with teachers’ and firefighters’ unions also balloting their members.

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In the media

  • Bespoke apprenticeship to train next generation of asset managers
    Cision News, Web, 21/03/2025
  • 'Outstanding' inspection reveals impact of Teesside University apprenticeships
    Tees Business, Web, 14/03/2025
  • 'Outstanding' Inspection Reveals Transformative Impact Of Apprenticeships 
    The Yorkshire Times, Web, 14/03/2025

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Teesside University has a proud history of learning and teaching stretching back over 90 years. Officially opened as Constantine Technical College to support Middlesbrough's booming engineering and shipping industries in 1930, the college became a polytechnic in 1969 and then one of 14 new universities approved by the Privy Council in 1992.

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