Combined University of Cornwall

Last Friday I visited Tremough Campus. I still remember the old Tremough convent school for girls.

The Combined University of course, covers a variety of sites, including University College Falmouth and Truro College in our constituency of Truro and Falmouth.

The new European Convergence funds will be looking to upskill the workforce in Cornwall. I believe this is really important. Many people in the workplace have not had the opportunity of further education. The task is to be able to provide working people with easy access to upskilling via work-based learning without major disruption to their day to day work. I will be supporting this intiative. I also like the bite-sized courses idea of very short, university level programmes to allow people to try out higher education without committing to a long course. It means that workers get the change to gain specific knowledge quickly.