Truro College was founded in 1993 in Gloweth near Threemilestone,
Truro,
Cornwall, to replace the Truro Sixth Form College. Penwith College was founded in 1980 in
Penzance, and was known until 1990 as Penwith Sixth Form College. It then became a
tertiary college named Penwith College. The decision to merge the two colleges was made in 2006, with the merger completed in 2008. It has assisted in the creation of
Callywith College, a
Further Education college in
Bodmin, which opened in September 2017. In 2004, a set of
triplets who were students at the college became the first complete set of triplets to obtain admission to the
University of Cambridge. The Rick Stein Academy was launched in 2015 as a partnership between the
Rick Stein Group and Truro and Penwith College. In June 2021, the college was one of the ten institutions that the
University and College Union opened ballots for
industrial action in over pay, working conditions and
compulsory redundancies. In 2022, a new building, called 'Valency', was opened on the Truro campus as part of the South West Institute of Technology. In 2023,
Rishi Sunak, the
Prime Minister at the time, visited the new building as part of his visit to Cornwall. In early June 2025, the Renewables Skills Center was officially opened ==Courses==