History
Truro College was founded in 1993 as a new-build campus in the Gloweth area, between Truro and Threemilestone in Cornwall. Penwith College was founded in 1980 in Penzance, and was known until 1990 as Penwith Sixth Form College. Following the merger in 2008, a £30 million programme of investment has resulted in many new state-of-the-art buildings on the Penwith campus, while the opening of new facilities on the Truro campus also continues. The new White Building for Art and Design, and new Seaton Building for Construction and Automotive Engineering were both opened on the Truro campus by HRH the Duke of Gloucester in October 2012.
The original principal of Truro College, and later Truro and Penwith College, was Jonathan Burnett. He retired in 2010, succeeded by David Walrond.
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