Cornwall Fire & Rescue Service Newsdesk

at 19/01/2012 08:50

**Photograph, filming and interview opportunities - 11am, Friday 20 January. See notes to editors for more details.**

Emergency services will join forces at the Tremough Campus in Penryn tomorrow with advice for students on how to make sure their night out doesn’t end in disaster.

The event, taking place on Friday 20 January, aims to highlight the hazards of walking home alone at night.

As part of the event, firefighters from Falmouth, as well as local police and ambulance staff, will stage a dramatic reconstruction of the aftermath of a road traffic collision involving a pedestrian in order to bring home the message. Cornwall Council’s Road Safety Team will also be on hand with advice for the students.

Watch Manager Martyn Addinall from White Watch Falmouth, said: “In 2010, four people were killed in separate incidents in Cornwall after being hit by a vehicle while walking.

“We want to encourage students to think about how they are going to get home after a night out. They are very vulnerable if they are walking on the road at night, particularly if they have consumed alcohol. We’d like students to arrange appropriate transport home before starting a night out, and, for designated drivers to take responsibility for ensuring their friends get to their door safely.

“We are fortunate to have the support of the Tremough Campus Services Group who deliver buildings, facilities and services on behalf of the University of Exeter and University College Falmouth at the Tremough Campus, who are always keen to host events which aim to make their students safer.”

“The Tremough Campus Services Group encourages any initiative that helps to keep our student population safe and we welcome every opportunity to work positively with the emergency services,” commented Health and Safety Advisor, Damien Prisk.

Photograph, filming and interview opportunity – 11am, Friday 20 January, Tremough Campus, Treliever Road , Penryn, TR10 9EZ. Please head to campus reception in the first instance.

About University College Falmouth

UCF is a vibrant and innovative specialist arts university – a key player in the national and international creative arena. Building on over 100 years of fresh thinking and creativity, UCF has achieved international prestige for its leading-edge courses in Art, Design, Media, Performance and Writing.

UCF is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the right to award degrees in its own name. The University College has two campuses – at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns and jointly manages with the University of Exeter).

UCF’s merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008 created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth’s expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington’s expertise in Dance, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Dartington-based courses have now relocated to an impressive, high-specification £19M Performance Centre at the Tremough Campus, which launched in October 2010. The European Regional Development Fund Convergence Programme invested £12,266,667 in this development which will prepare performance students for success within the creative industries. The South West Regional Development Agency’s Single Pot Fund contributed a further £3M, with the remainder being invested by the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s Strategic Development Fund.

The creation of an Academy for Innovation & Research and innovative shared learning and teaching space, The Exchange, represent the next phase of UCF’s ambition to create a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2013/2014 that will be one of the top five arts institutes in the world.

www.falmouth.ac.uk


About the University of Exeter

The University of Exeter is a leading UK university and in the top one percent of institutions globally. It combines world class research with very high levels of student satisfaction. Exeter is ranked 10th in the UK in The Times Good University Guide 2012 and 11th in the Guardian University Guide 2012. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 90% of the University’s research was rated as being at internationally recognised levels and 16 of its 31 subjects are ranked in the top 10, with 27 subjects ranked in the top 20.

The University has over 17,000 students at three campuses. The Streatham and St Luke’s campuses are in Exeter and the Cornwall Campus (known locally as Tremough) near Penryn. In an arrangement that is unique in the UK, the Cornwall Campus is owned and jointly managed as the Tremough Campus with University College Falmouth. At the campus, University of Exeter students can study programmes in Geology, Mining and Minerals Engineering, Renewable Energy, English, History, Biosciences, Geography and Politics.

The University of Exeter is currently developing its campuses in Exeter and Cornwall with almost £350 million worth of new facilities due for completion by 2012.
www.exeter.ac.uk