Truro and Penwith College

Students celebrated Truro and Penwith College’s Investors in Diversity accreditation by holding an ‘Everyone’s Different‘ fair. The college’s student Equality Diversion and Inclusion (EDI) group invited a range of organisations to meet with students and engage on a range of equality issues. The fair included displays from Disability Cornwall, Brook, Cornwall Dyslexia Association, Anti-Bullying Cornwall, [...]

Ten members of Truro-Penwith College successfully passed their RLSS National Beach Lifeguard course at the Penwith Campus and local Beaches.  This is the second year running students have been given the opportunity to gain a nationally recognised qualification which they can use to attain employment as a Lifeguard or as a Surf Instructor.  The week [...]

  Surf Shop Skills Training for Ann’s Cottage Within two days of being made redundant Maria Philbin was receiving support from ESF (European Social Fund) Convergence supported project – Skills Support for Redundancy (SSR). Within three weeks she had a new job with surf lifestyle chain Ann’s Cottage. On top of that her new employers [...]

The Ten Tors Challenge brings a sense of achievement to all who participate in it, but this year Truro and Penwith College students have extra reason to be proud. Having trained and been selected for the 45 mile course and ahead of the field, the college’s Expedition Academy were hit by injury on Day 1, [...]

“Rise of the Ratmen” is a sample level created by a year 1 Computer Games Development student which has been published for Android Phones and Tablets on the Google Play store. Course tutor David Atkinson-Beaumont says ‘it’s important that our students get real world experience at self-publishing games content and seeing how people respond to [...]

Euan Bassey, Nick Pearson and Rachel Cartright represented Truro and Penwith College at the regional heat of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Schools’ Analyst Competition at Plymouth University. They spent the day carrying out chemical analysis, achieving third place amongst different colleges across the south west region. Each student received a book token and the [...]