This document provides an introduction to higher education in the UK. It discusses the benefits of obtaining a university degree, such as higher lifetime earnings of over £100,000 for graduates compared to non-graduates. It also notes that 80% of future jobs will require graduate-level skills and qualifications. Additional benefits of attending university mentioned include career opportunities, personal development, and learning new skills in areas like time management, communication, and teamwork. Teesside University is highlighted as a successful institution that invests in excellent facilities and supports employability through industry partnerships.

1. Introduction to Higher
Education

2. Did you know?
If you were paid £1 for every higher education course
available in the UK you would earn over £50,000
Graduates earn substantially more over their lifetime
than non graduates, on average comfortably Over £100,000 or more.
Over the next decade 80% of jobs will be for careers that typically
recruit graduates

3. Why students choose to go to
University?
• To gain a qualification
• Careers or professional opportunities
• To increase earning potential and raise career ‘ceiling’
• Personal development
• To meet new people

4. Learn or develop new skills
Time management, organisation, communication skills,
interpersonal skills, networking, negotiation, independent
learning, budgeting, analytical skills, report writing, team
work, meeting deadlines, tact & diplomacy, problem
solving, adaptability, leadership, research skills, cross-
cultural understanding, …
+ personal growth and development

5. Skills
Enhanced skills through HE investment:
• recession proof your career
• employed vs ‘employable’
• opens doors sometimes not available to those without a degree
• keep up with the jobs market (many people in the market today
have degrees so don’t get left out)
• Requirement for some careers

6. A successful university
• First and only modern university to be crowned UK
University of the Year (Times Higher Education)
• Top new university in England for student
experience (Times Higher Education survey 2011/12)
• Teesside has risen 19 places in the league tables
from last year (Guardian 2012)
• Accessible and supportive lecturers – teaching
focus (QAA) underpinned by research, industry links,
practising professionals (NTF)
• In the World’s top 4 for international student
satisfaction (international student i-barometer)

7. An expanding university
• £200m invested in estate with award-
winning campuses at Middlesbrough &
Darlington…with more to come.
• Superb facilities (academic and extra-
curricular)
• Key partnerships with employers and with
Further Education
• A social enterprise at the heart of the
community

8. Academic Schools
• School of Arts & Media
• School of Computing
• School of Health & Social Care
• School of Social Science & Law
• School of Science & Engineering
• Teesside University Business School

9. Employability
• BBC Director General called us: “one of the
fastest moving, most exciting universities”
• Entrepreneurship – start up businesses/
business incubation units
• EXPOTEES /Creative Arts Week – end of year
exhibitions often leading to final year students
being offered jobs before they even graduate
• Providing graduates with real world skills
through industry links
• Award-winning Careers Service, Library and
Students’ Union
Dreamworks
Sega
James Bond
Batman
Pixar
Proctor &
Gamble
Glaxo Smith
Kline
IBM
Aston Martin

10. Sports clubs
Airsoft – American Football – Athletics – Badminton – Basketball
(mens) – Basketball (women's) – Capoeira – Cheerleading –
Climbing – Cricket – Football (mens) – Football (womens) –
Freestyle Dance – Futsal – Gaelic Football (mens) – Gaelic
Football (women's) – Hapkido – Hockey (mens) – Hockey
(womens) – Horse-riding – Iaido – Jeet Kune Do – Ju Jitsu –
Karate – Kayak – Kickboxing – Kung Fu – Netball – Pool – Rowing
– Ruby (women's) – Rugby League – Rugby Union – Skydiving –
Snow Sports – Surfing – Swimming & Waterpolo – Table Tennis –
Tai Chi – Teesside Extreme – Tennis – Trampolining

11. Our Students love us
• UK’s top modern university for Student
Experience (THE 2012)
• 84% of our students are happy with the
teaching on their course - history gave us a
100% score.
• Our courses and lectures are ranked as the
best in the North East and in the country’s top
ten, according to the Whatuni Student Choice
Awards 2011.

12. We inspire, you succeed
• Seaside and country side on
your doorstep
• Annual multi-cultural
Middlesbrough MELA
• Middlesbrough Institute of
Modern Art (MIMA)
• Temenos (see picture – left)
• Local economy
A great place
to live
Photo by Steve Grey – visitmiddlesbrough.com