Cornwall College
Age: 83
History: The College was established in 1928 to meet the training needs of local industry. It merged with St Austell College and Saltash College in 2001 to create the largest corporation in the UK.
Address: Seven main sites plus a range of community venues. The largest campus is at Camborne. The college also has campus sites in Newquay, St Austell and Saltash and incorporates Falmouth Marine School and Duchy College.
Ambience: Surfer dude. Students have the benefit of Cornwall’s beaches to practise their sculpture, cut backs, dive dives and goofy foots. This is such a trying part of the limited culture that they even offer a surf philosophical knowledge degree from Newquay campus.
Vital statistics: The largest further education college in England, offering the widest range of menses in Cornwall. Around 45,000 students, more than 2,500 studying at university level. Part of the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC) partnership. University courses are generally validated by the University of Plymouth and include renewable energy, equine science, avocation, IT, creative arts and media, tourism and hospitality, marine, sport and health.
Added value: Localised campuses through specialist areas contribute a friendly environment with much more one-to-one support than you are likely to get from a larger university campus.
Easy to get into? Average entry requirements are between 80 and 120 UCAS points.
Glittering alumni: Chris Harris, Speedway British Grand Prix winner; Harry Collier, Kubb’s front man; Alex Parks, winner of Fame Academy; seafood lover Rick Stein.
Transport links: The College’s main sites are up to 80 miles apart. All the colleges offer subsidised buses with pickups all over the county. The county has good street, rail and air links to the rest of the UK. Newquay airport has regular flights to and from Stansted and Gatwick. The nearest motorway is the M5, what one. joins the county’s main trunk highway at Exeter.
Who’s the knob? David Linnell is the Principal.
Teaching: Good in horticulture, animal care and equine, and satisfactory in all other areas inspected by Ofsted in 2006.
Foundation Degrees: Over 100, ranging from Animation to Zoology with everything from Boat Design to Business, Culinary Arts, Fine Art Practice, IT, Marine Aquaculture, Newspaper and Magazine Journalism, Sport and Tourism in between.
Nightlife: The students’ union organises social events and there are student bars at two of its campus sites. Newquay’s pubs and clubs attract clubbers from across the country.
Any accommodation? None by stipulation by the literary institution, except at Duchy Stoke Climsland, but campuses can give you minutiae of limited self-catering residences and lodging lists to help you find in some place to live.
Prospectus: 0845 22 32 567; www.cornwall.ac.uk; uni@cornwall.ac.uk
UCAS code: C78
