Truro and Penwith College

Rated Gold by the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) in 2017 and Ofsted Outstanding in 2016, Truro and Penwith College provides a range of quality degree courses with employer needs in mind. All students benefit from an excellent support network that helps to put them on the best footing for a successful future after graduating. Finding themselves at home in purpose-built buildings with expert lecturers and access to industry-standard equipment, students can study a quality University course right here in Cornwall.
 
Degree courses in Silversmithing and Jewellery help students to develop craftsmanship skills in areas such as raising, planishing, box making, making settings and findings and setting stones. Encouraged to research new technologies to benefit their practice, students will be taught business and self-promotion skills to ensure that they are ready to enter the industry upon graduating. Past alumni have started their own businesses as jewellery makers, taken on highly-paid commissions, displayed work in exhibitions and galleries all over the country and progressed into a range of careers in silversmithing.