[10] 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.

[11] In 2022, a new building, called 'Valency', was opened on the Truro campus as part of the South West Institute of Technology.

[16] The college offers PGCE, CertEd and Cornwall SCITT teacher training courses.

[17][18] It was the first tertiary college to be awarded 'Outstanding' status, the highest designation by Ofsted in 2006,[19][20] and the first to retain an Outstanding rating, in 2016.

[29][30][31][32] In the 2019 Six Nations Rugby Union game between England and Ireland, four of the players on the pitch were graduates from the college's rugby academy: Luke Cowan-Dickie, Jack Nowell, Henry Slade, and Bundee Aki.