penryn Campus

OFFER-HOLDER VISIT DAYS 2014 PENRYN, NEAR FALMOUTH, The Penryn Campus is an inspiring,

intimate and vibrant place to study. Please note: in line more accommodation and an extension to our with our commitment striking library and student services facilities. to environmental An energetic, diverse student community of 4,000 sustainability, we won’t be studies here, and the campus – which we share Visit Days are intended to provide you with all handing out carrier bags, and jointly manage with – also so you might like to bring the information you need: staff and students are attracts some of the world’s finest academics. a bag with you for any available to answer your questions and tell you literature you collect. Students choose the for its what it’s really like to live and study in this beautiful reputation and the strength of our academic faculty, part of the country. research and teaching; they choose the Penryn The Student Recruitment Team will also be on hand Campus not just for its location and lifestyle, How to find us and at the registration desk in the refectory. We look but for its friendliness and sense of success and forward to meeting you! momentum. practical arrangements

This ambition and energy is underlined by a Arrival and registration In addition you can find information on For train timetabling contact national £50 million investment programme. These fantastic Student Recruitment Team where to stay at www.visitcornwall.com and rail enquiries. Tel: 08457 484950 or visit We will be open for registration from 09:00. www.tourismcornwall.co.uk www.nationalrail.co.uk new facilities include a world-class research centre, When you arrive, please head to the refectory to register by handing in the registration slip Travel arrangements Bus – National Express coaches stop in which we’ll send you once you’ve booked Penryn. For timetables, contact National your place. Parking – Free parking is available for the Express (tel: 08717 818178 or visit Offer-Holder Visit Days in all Penryn www.nationalexpress.com). Campus car parks. Our car parks’ barriers Have you visited us before? For bus services within the South West, visit will be programmed to rise as you enter at www.travelinesw.com If you have visited us before and have any time during the day. Welcome to the University of Exeter taken the tours and general presentations, Air – The closest airport to the Penryn you can choose to arrive for the afternoon Directions to the Penryn Campus – Campus is Newquay. Car hire and taxi department visits if you prefer. Please still If you’re driving, it’s best not to rely on services are also available at Newquay arrive in time (we recommend 12:00) to satellite navigation systems. The Penryn Offer-Holder Visit Day Airport. For car hire information visit register, have a tea or coffee and for us Campus is approximately two hours’ drive www.newquaycornwallairport.com to direct you to the right department for from Exeter. the afternoon. Congratulations on receiving your offer of a place From the north, take the A30 west from Please note: Newquay Airport is approximately If you’d like to look around the campus, Exeter until you reach the A39 signposted 40 km from Penryn and if you’re using public at the University of Exeter accommodation or hear the general talks Truro. Drive through Truro following the transport you will need to take a bus from the again, you are more than welcome to arrive signs for the A39 to Falmouth. At the airport to Newquay and then another bus to Whether or not you have visited us before, we recommend you to help. Student ambassadors wearing yellow t-shirts can be found in the morning. Treluswel roundabout, cross straight over, Penryn (typical total journey time 1.5 to 2 attend an Offer-Holder Visit Day. There is a choice of dates across the campus and will also be happy to assist you. following the signs for University Campus hours). For all public transport connections visit www.traveline.org.uk available and each day is packed with opportunities for you to see Visitors with disabilities/ Tremough (our Penryn Campus). At the full range of facilities, meet staff and students, and experience To book your place on a forthcoming Offer-Holder Visit Day, the Treliever roundabout turn left, again special needs following the signs to the University Campus Directions to the Penryn Campus and a the welcoming atmosphere of the University for yourself. please visit our website at: www.exeter.ac.uk/offer-holder Tremough. The campus entrance is on your map can be found on our website at We encourage visitors who need special www.exeter.ac.uk/visit/directions/cornwall This brochure is designed to help you get the most out of the For detailed information about our programmes, please visit our arrangements to contact us on +44 (0)1326 right after approximately 200 metres. website: www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate experience. We recommend you take time to plan your day so that 371801 or email [email protected] so we Train – Penryn has its own train station. Emergencies and first aid you don’t miss an important talk or tour. You may like to use the can plan for your visit. Blue badge holders are There is a frequent direct service to Truro For further information about the Offer-Holder Visit Days, In case of emergency please contact timetable on the back page to help you do this. able to park on campus in designated areas. from many major British cities. At Truro, contact the Admissions and Student Recruitment Office: the nearest member of staff or student Please refer to the map on page 7. change to the branch line service to tel: +44 (0)1326 371801; email: [email protected] ambassador. First aid assistance is available If, throughout the day, you have any questions, please come to the Falmouth and leave the train at Penryn. The Catering from the registration desk in the refectory. registration desk in the refectory where we’ll be more than happy campus is a 20 minute walk from the station. When you arrive we’ll give you a voucher for We will be providing a free shuttle bus to the To ensure your personal safety throughout a complimentary tea or coffee, and you can campus, running from 08:00 until 17:30 (last the day, please keep to the paths. Do not buy a variety of hot and cold food and snacks bus from the campus bus stop). If you prefer touch any equipment or apparatus unless from the refectory, the campus shop and the to book a taxi from the station, telephone invited to do so by a member of staff. In campus café. +44 (0)1326 373007 or +44 (0)1326 212141. case of emergency please contact the nearest member of staff or student ambassador. If you Alternatively you can leave the train at are a blue badge holder parking on campus, Overnight accommodation Truro train station and catch the No. 88 please ensure you are in a marked space and bus from outside the station direct to the report your car to reception on arrival. The Falmouth and Penryn area offers a wide campus. For bus and train timetabling visit choice of hotels, B&Bs and restaurants. You www.travelinesw.com Please note: the train is can find information about where to stay at much quicker than the bus. www.exeter.ac.uk/visit/university/stay

2 3 Tours and general presentations Visits to departments

Tours and general presentations are Campus tours Information stands You’ll have the opportunity to visit your Please pre-book for the tour if you haven’t with academic members of staff over tea and scheduled for the morning. Representatives department for the afternoon. Student already done. coffee and will have the opportunity to take from our service providers will be available Campus tours run in the morning from Representatives from our service providers ambassadors will accompany you on the a subject-specific campus tour with a student at the information stands in the refectory. inside the refectory, or if you prefer you will be on hand to answer any questions you departmental visits. Please wait in the English from the department. can take a tour with one of the student might have about life on campus: refectory a few minutes before the advertised ambassadors after the departmental visits 13:00 – approx 15:00 Have you applied for a • Accessibility start time and listen for announcements Politics have finished in the afternoon. Our English department will give a welcome Joint Honours or Flexible • Accommodation indicating the exact departure point and time talk with general information about the 13:00 – approx 15:00 Where: inside the main refectory • Admissions for your subject visit. Please note: departmental Combined Honours degree? department and programme, followed by a Our Politics department will give a welcome When: throughout the day from 09:00 • Careers visits vary in length. sample seminar or lecture. There will also be talk followed by sample lecture/seminar. until 16:00 • Library Services On each of the three Offer-Holder Visit the chance to chat with academic members of Afterwards, tea and coffee will be provided • Student Finance Biosciences Days there will be a dedicated stand in staff over tea and coffee. If you wish to take and there will be the opportunity to talk to • Student Services and the Students’ the refectory where you can discuss your General presentations 13:00 – approx 15:45 a tour of the campus, please make your way academic staff. At the end of the visit there Union (FXU) application for a Joint or Flexible Combined There will be a welcome talk and information back to the refectory where one of our student will be the opportunity to take a subject Students and parents are welcome to attend Honours programme. Additional academic about the department and programmes, ambassadors will be available for a tour. specific campus tour with a student from our general presentations scheduled for the Please note: there will also be information staff will be available from 11:00 to 13:00 sample lecture, a visit to the laboratory and the department. to answer individual questions for English; morning. These all take place in the Chapel available on the local area on the Local the chance to meet and have tea and coffee Environmental Science Environmental Law; History; geography; Lecture Theatre and the Exchange Lecture Information stand. In addition, you’re invited with the Biosciences staff. At the end of the 13:00 – approx 15:30 Renewable Energy mathematics and the environment; and Theatre. Please wait in the refectory a few to visit our Environment and Sustainability visit there will be the opportunity to take a This session will provide a welcome politics. minutes before the advertised start time and Institute (ESI) stand to find out how cutting- subject specific campus tour with a student 13:00 – approx 15:00 and overview of the department and its a student ambassador will direct you to the edge, interdisciplinary research on the from the department. Our Renewable Energy department will give Accommodation tours lecture theatre. Penryn Campus is enhancing people’s lives programmes, followed by a sample seminar a welcome talk followed by lunch. There will by improving their relationships with the School of Mines that will give you a flavour of the MSci/BSc then be subject-specific talks and laboratory Onsite accommodation tours run in the environment. Find out how this research Environmental Science programmes. You sessions. At the end of the laboratory sessions morning, led by student ambassadors. feeds into many elements of biosciences, 12:15 – approx 16:00 (finishing at approx will be able to meet with academic members there will be an opportunity to speak with You may also wish to speak to staff on the environmental science, mathematics and the 17:15 if joining the test mine visit) of staff over tea and coffee and will have the academic staff about the programme. If you opportunity to take a subject-specific campus Accommodation stand in the refectory. environment, and geography teaching. (CSM) teaches wish to take a tour of the campus, please tour with a student from the department. make your way back to the refectory where Where: inside the main refectory mining Engineering and Geology. There will be a welcome talk, followed by lunch. There one of our student ambassadors will be When: throughout the day from 09:00 History available for a tour. Please note: a lunch is until 16:00 will then be subject-specific talks, laboratory Timetable Exchange Lecture Theatre Chapel Lecture Theatre sessions and a campus tour with a current 13:00 – approx 15:30 offered as part of their afternoon activities. 09:00 – 09:45 Admissions Student Life student. Our History department will give a welcome What happens next? talk with general information about the Please note: CSM offers a lunch as part of their Mathematics and the 09:45 – 10:30 Maximise your Employability Funding your Studies department and programme, followed by a afternoon activities for students holding an Environment sample seminar/lecture and separate parents’ 10:30 – 11:15 Admissions Student Life offer for Mining Engineering or Geology. What happens next? Q&A session. This will be followed by tea and 13:00 – approx 15:00 coffee and the chance to chat with academic Our Mathematics department will give a 11:15 – 12:00 Maximise your Employability Funding your Studies Test mine visit members of staff. At the end of the visit welcome talk followed by lunch and the 12:00 – 12:30 Meet the FXU, your Students’ Union For students holding an offer for Mining there will be the opportunity to take a subject opportunity to speak with academic staff. Engineering or Geology there will be the specific campus tour with a student from the There will be a sample seminar/lecture as opportunity to go on a tour of the test mine. department. well as a practical session in one of the IT CSM’s test mine comprises a mining facility suites on campus. At the end of the visit if you for explosive, practical mining sessions and Geography wish to take a tour of the campus please make experimentation. Tours depart by minibus your way back to the refectory where one of and last approximately two hours. 13:00 – approx 15:30 our student ambassadors will be available for This session will provide a welcome and a tour. Please note: a lunch is offered as part of All visitors attending with prospective overview of the Geography department and their afternoon activities. Geology/Mining Engineering students its programmes and will be followed by an are welcome but priority will be given to interactive seminar to give you a flavour of prospective students if demand is high. the programmes. You will be able to meet

4 5 Make a weekend of it! Penryn Campus map

If you’re visiting Cornwall for an Offer-Holder Visit Day, you may wish to stay for the weekend and spend some time exploring the local area and attractions. Choosing where to study is about more 6 ESI than just life on campus, so visiting some of these locations could be a great way to get to know the area better. The University of Our favourite beaches within 30 minutes Exeter has campuses F in the best counties in 4 of the Penryn Campus 1 3 the country. Cornwall Porthtowan is the perfect location Check out the surf before heading into The Blue Beach Bar for your academic 2 to enjoy great food and watch the sun go down. endeavours, providing Gyllyngvase you with an ideal environment to take part in sport, 7 Treat yourself to a hot chocolate at Gylly beach café overlooked To Treliever Roundabout A39, Falmouth & Truro AIR - Academy for Innovation & Research by the imposing Pendennis Castle. volunteering and academia – all crucial for your (University College Falmouth) ESI - Environment and Sustainability Institute Maenporth student experience. (University of Exeter) TIC – Tremough Innovation Centre (Cornwall Council) Take a walk along the costal path to picturesque Helford or just Buses & Services Only For full details of the development Falmouth and Penryn offer you a thriving student work at Tremough Campus visit relax and enjoy the fantastic view. www.tremoughcampus.com

community in the heart of Cornwall. There is a local To Glasney Student Village Main Car Parks As a generalP rule,Bus Stopunless a memberBS of staffPhotogra phasksy Centre you to, 7 Local towns pub, club and bar scene; whilst the beaches offer a Reserved Visitor Car Park P Barrier Locations Peter Lanyon Building 8 5 please don’t touch any equipment. In an emergency, Glasney Residents No Entry Daphne Du Maurier Building 9 P Long Stay Car Park Penryn chance to get away from the stresses of work. Not contact the nearestToilets member of staff or Thstudente Stannary 10 Car Sharers / Electric Fire Assembly Point F Reception 11 Just a few minutes’ walk from the Penryn Campus is one of P forgetting everything else that goes on here: fishing, Vehicle Car Parkambassador, and, if you need first aid, ask at the Cornwall’s most ancient towns, now with an environmentally (Users must display pemainrmits) reception Tronemough campus. House 1 Design Centre 12 coast-path walking, cycling, surfing, windsurfing, AIR Visitor Car Park P Tremough House Annex 2 Performance Centre 13 sustainable development at Jubilee Wharf. Pay Stations £ FXU 3 Shop & Reprographics 14 sailing… you’re going to love every moment of your Disabled Parking Old Chapel Lecture Theatre 4 Glasney Porters Lodge 15 Falmouth Motorcycle Parking Media Centre 5 Multi-use Games Area 16 NOT TO SCALE A short bus ride away, Falmouth is famous for its maritime student experience, so make the most of it. You’ll TrRefectoryemough in Daphne Ca du mpusMaurier Main reception Cycle Park B Adland Visitor Parking6 Camborne School of Mines 17 history, bustling seafront and stunning Pendennis Castle. really feel part of the community here, something 1 Building 3 Treliever Road, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ Telephone: 01326 370400 FaDeparturex: 01326 370450 point for the test mine Truro that is unique to Cornwall. Email:Registration tremoughreception desk,@f xplus.acinformation.uk www. standsfalmouth.ac. uk and www.visit.exeter.ac.uk  Disabled Parking

Cornwall’s only cathedral city is less than 20 minutes’ drive Developmentand sdeparture at Tremough under th epoint CUC initiative accommodation have been funded mainly by the Europe an Union (Objective One) and the UK Government (through the South West Regional Development Agency and the Higher Education Funding Council for England) with support from Cornwall Council. Tremough Campus is operated by Tremough Campus Services, an exempt charitable company limited by guarantee, owThened jointl Chapely by University Colleg Lecturee Falmouth and thTheatree University of Exeter and registered in England and Wales, numberBus 510324 Stop0. from the Penryn Campus. It has a twice weekly farmers market, The Falmouth and Exeter Students’ Union (FXU) tours, campus tours and visits to 4 fantastic independent shops and boasts the cultural venue ‘Hall is your platform to getting involved. Whether you departments; please wait here 10 Presentations on Student Life and for Cornwall’. minutes before your department Funding your Studies. Shuttle bus to Penryn station want to participate in sport, explore Cornwall or session begins. are seeking advice – we are here to help! Glasney Student Village Toilet Facilities Four of the best attractions The Exchange Building 5 (Accommodation) Eden Project www.edenproject.co.uk 2 Chaz Malyon, FXU President Presentations for Admissions, Food and drink available Environment and Sustainability Maritime Museum www.nmmc.co.uk Employability and Sports and Societies talks. 6 Institute (ESI) Tate St Ives www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-st-ives The Minack Theatre www.minack.com Peter Lanyon Building 7

6 7 Your timetable for the day

To help you get the most out of your day, you may wish to complete the timetable below.

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Further Information Admissions and Student Recruitment University of Exeter Penryn Campus Treliever Road Penryn Cornwall TR10 9EZ

Telephone +44 (0)1326 371801 Email [email protected] www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate

This document forms part of the University’s Undergraduate Prospectus. Every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in the Prospectus is correct at the time of going to print. The University will endeavour The Penryn Campus is a to deliver programmes and other services in accordance with the descriptions provided on the website and in this Combined Universities in Cornwall initiative and part- prospectus. The University reserves the right to make variations to programme content, entry requirements and funded by the EU Regional methods of delivery and to discontinue, merge or combine programmes, both before and after a student’s admission Development Fund. to the University. Full terms and conditions can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications/disclaimer

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