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Special graduation ceremonies for part-time students

23 January 2001

 

The University of Teesside has just held two special graduation-style ceremonies to award certificates to part-time students.

These took place on Wednesday and Thursday (January 17-18, 2001) in the new Centuria School of Health Building on Victoria Road, Middlesbrough.

Around 200 students took part and many relatives and friends attended together with the Mayor of Middlesbrough, Councillor Kath Bevington.

The students were from a range of short and part-time courses as varied as IT and Computing to business administration and intermediate-level French and German. A group of serving police officers also gained their University Certificates after completing special programmes in ‘Police Ethics’ and ‘Handling Incidents of Domestic Violence’.

Among those gaining certificates were Mike Breslin, 34, from Gladstone Street, Carlin How, who has been wheelchair-bound since being in a motorcycle accident at the age of 17. The depot clerk with Redcar and Cleveland Council and fellow student, Mark Short, 31, from Queen Street, Carlin How, both received University Certificates and University Advanced Certificates in Professional Development in Computer Studies.

“It was a brilliant courses and we have definitely both caught the learning bug. We are enrolling on a part-time degree in Computing,” said Mark.

Also graduating were Susan Teasdale, 22, from Ayresome Park, Middlesbrough, who works as a fitness instructor in the Rainbow Centre at Coulby Newham, and Stephen Clancy, 29, from Norton, who is a lifeguard-cum-fitness trainer at the Billingham Forum. Both gained University Certificates in Exercise Prescription after undertaking a short (two-week) course for health and fitness trainers working with people with heart diseases or other physical ailments.

The next part-time courses at the University of Teesside start during the week beginning February 5. A special Advice and Enrolment afternoon-evening is taking place at the University of Teesside’s Student Centre, access from Southfield Road or Borough Road, Middlesbrough, on Wednesday 31 January, from 12noon to 7.30pm. More information from the University’s Centre for Lifelong Learning, tel. 01642 384223.


 
 
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