News - Postgraduate Success Story
University College Falmouth press release
"Hold on to the confidence that higher education has given you, sieze every opportunity, give your all and enjoy life to the full," advised Guest of Honour, Kevin Lavery, in his speech to graduating students at University College Falmouth's recent Postgraduate Awards Ceremony held at the Tremough Campus in Penryn.
Addressing more than 170 students, their friends, family and UCF staff, Chief Executive of the newly unitised Cornwall Council, Kevin Lavery, gave his personal view of the importance of higher education and how it had helped him during his career; and offered his professional perspective on the importance of higher education in the county, and the vital importance of UCF to Cornwall's future. In particular, he celebrated UCF's positive impact on the regional economy through job creation and the growth of the creative industries, and urged graduates to consider Cornwall as a base for their own creative enterprise, with its raft of strengths and opportunities.
Students graduated with Masters Degrees in a range of Art, Design and Media disciplines - from Contemporary Crafts; Creative Advertising; Curatorial Practice; Fine Art: Contemporary Practice; Graphic Design; Illustration: Authorial Practice and International Journalism to Multimedia Broadcast Journalism; Multimedia Science Broadcast Journalism; Multimedia Sports Broadcast Journalism; Photography; Professional Writing; Television Production; Textile Design and 20th Century Art & Design. Postgraduate Certificates in Higher Education were also awarded as was an MA in Education: Creative & Academic Practices in Higher Education.
A number of other awards were also bestowed. MA Multimedia Broadcast Journalism graduate, Alexandra Gibson, was awarded The Allen Holden Award by Pirate FM's News Editor, Tristan Hunkin. MA Professional Writing Course Leader, Christina Bunce, accepted The Derek & Jeanie Tangye Minack Chronicles Nature Trust Literary Bursary on behalf of graduate, Julian Munday. MA Fine Art: Contemporary Practice graduates, Paul Skipper and Belle Benfield were awarded Sandra Blow Scholarships and Ferdynand Zweig Memorial Scholarships were awarded to Sophie Ghaziri and Josh Vardey from MA International Journalism; Maximilian Greenstein from MA Television Production and Avia Moore from Dartington Campus course, MA Devised Theatre.
"Our postgraduate students contribute significantly to the culture and vitality of University College Falmouth," said Rector, Professor Anne Carlisle. "Whichever area of the creative industries our graduates make their mark on, we value their contribution to the College's continuing success and wish them dynamic and rewarding futures."
For further information about University College Falmouth, visit http://www.falmouth.ac.uk, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 213730.
University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name. It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns, and jointly manages with the University of Exeter) - and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.
This merger created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2012/2013 that will be unique to the South West.
The College is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall Council.