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Principal
  
Raoul Humphreys

DfE URN
  
130627 Tables

Phone
  
+44 845 223 2567

Number of students
  
45,000

DfE number
  
908/8000

Ages
  
14+

Staff
  
2800

Type
  
Further Education College

Location
  
Camborne Newquay Saltash St Austell Rosewarne (Duchy College) Stoke Climsland (Duchy College) Falmouth

Address
  
Tregonissey Rd, Saint Austell PL25 4DJ, UK

CEO
  
Raoul Humphreys (31 Jul 2016–)

Subsidiaries
  
Duchy College Stoke Climsland

Notable alumni
  
Aphex Twin, Toni Pearce, George Eustice, Jonathan Fox

Similar
  
Bicton College, Falmouth Marine School, Duchy College Rosewarne, Cornwall College Camborne, Cornwall College Newquay

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Cornwall College (Cornish: Kollji Kernow) is a further education college situated on various sites throughout Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, with its main centre in St Austell. The college is a member of the Collab Group of high performing schools. It is part of the Combined Universities in Cornwall, and offers higher education courses to master's degree level under franchise from the University of Plymouth.

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Awards

Cornwall College is the only college in South West England to be a Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) in four areas. The college also has five AoC Beacon Awards, highlighting the College’s ability to work in partnership with external organisations, and in 2016 was one of just two colleges to be awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education. It is one of 26 training providers to have been awarded the UK government's Training Quality Standard.

Campuses

There are eight campuses within the Cornwall College group, at Camborne, Newquay, Saltash, St Austell, Duchy College, Rosewarne and Stoke Climsland, Bicton College and Falmouth Marine School.

Courses

35,000 young people from the age 16 study at the college each year, 2,000 of whom are undertaking university-level courses. Besides A-levels and apprenticeships, courses are offered in Arts, Media & Performing Arts; Business, Administration & Law; Catering & Hospitality; Construction Trades; Conservation, Zoology and Animal Behaviour; Early Years; Engineering; Hair, Beauty & Wellbeing; Information & Communication Technology; Motor Vehicle; Foundation Learning plus English & Maths; Public Services; Science; Social Care & Health; Sport, Fitness & Outdoor; Travel & Tourism; as well as in the School of Education and Professional Development.

Alumni

  • John Barnes, 5th Baron Gorell, Chartered surveyor
  • References

    Cornwall College Wikipedia