Truro and Penwith College is a Tertiary College located in Cornwall in the United Kingdom. It is rated as one of the best colleges in the country. It was the first Further Education or Tertiary College in the UK to be awarded ‘Designated Outstanding Status’ by Ofsted. Truro College opened in 1993 and merged with Penwith College in 2008. Truro and Penwith College is a member of the Combined Universities in Cornwall partnership and the Plymouth University partner college network. The principal is David Walrond.
The College’s aim is: ‘to work with every student to help achieve the best possible results, providing the best possible learning experience leading to the highest possible level of achievement.’ In the academic year 2011-12 Truro and Penwith College achieved some of its best A Level results ever, its highest ever International Baccalaureate results, its best ever vocational course results, the largest and most successful degree-level cohort in its history, and some of its best sporting achievements.
It is the top non-selective state school for the International Baccalaureate in the UK, and in the top five of all state school providers of the IB nationally. Two of its students got the highest marks in the country for their respective A Level subjects, English Language and Law, in 2012.
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“A village seems thus, where its able-bodied men are all plowing the ocean together, as a common field. In North Truro the women and girls may sit at their doors, and see where their husbands and brothers are harvesting their mackerel fifteen or twenty miles off, on the sea, with hundreds of white harvest wagons, just as in the country the farmers’ wives sometimes see their husbands working in a distant hillside field. But the sound of no dinner-horn can reach the fisher’s ear.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own person, at least four incurable distempers.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)