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The University of 海角直播 officially opens its first higher education centre within a further education college tomorrow on Friday 4 May.

Appropriately the opening will be performed by Lord (Tom) Sawyer of Darlington, who was installed two years ago as the University鈥檚 Chancellor. The 拢2m University Centre has been created in part of the new 拢35m new Darlington College development - opened in December by Prime Minister Tony Blair, MP for Sedgefield, County Durham, which is just a few miles away.

Lord Sawyer was born in Darlington and began his labour movement career as a local engineering union shop steward and secretary of Darlington Trades Council before becoming a top union leader with NUPE and General Secretary of the Labour Party.

He said: 鈥淚f you had told me in the 1970鈥檚 that we would have not only this amazing new college in my home town but also a University Centre in the heart of it, I would not have believed you.鈥�

The Darlington HE project is the first of a network of higher education centres across the Tees Valley which will eventually also include Hartlepool College and a new performing arts centre in Middlesbrough鈥檚 dockland rejuvenation Middlehaven area.

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