Teesside University the same job title by creating a new position, rather than to save costs. Higher education policy watchers warned that this decision is part of a trend of casualising university employees. In August 2017, Teesside University was criticised for misleading adverts . It was ordered to remove claims which were in breach of Advertising Standards Authority rules by stating the University claim that it was a "top university in England for long-term graduate prospects" gave a misleading picture of the reality. Since its formation as Constantine Technical College in 1930, Teesside University has been located in the borough of Middlesbrough
County Borough of Teesside in England and Wales. Opposition MP Graham Page attacked the government for creating county boroughs in Teesside and other areas such as the Hartlepools and Torbay before the commission reported: "Do the Government consider that these piecemeal orders represent dynamic policy? Do they think that these Measures – one or two orders a week presented to Parliament during farcical morning sittings at which the honourable gentlemen opposite do not bother to turn up to support their Ministers represent dynamic local government policy?" Another round of local government reorganisation took place under the Local Government Act 1972, which introduced a uniform