Students at the Tremough campus in Penryn have been receiving invaluable hints on how to eat healthily on a budget.

A new scheme encouraging students to cook nutritious, yet affordable, meals has been set up by university College Falmouth and the University of Exeter, which share the campus.

The project is being run by Eatsome, a healthy eating programme which is part of NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly.

The weekly cooking sessions cater for up to eight students.

THE Combined Universities In Cornwall (CUC) has appointed a director who will play a key role in leading the way in the organisation's future.

Dr Sue Brownlow will help deliver the vision of world class higher education in Cornwall set by the six universities and colleges that make up the CUC partnership.

"I am thrilled to be joining the CUC at such an exciting time for Cornwall and for the partnership," she said.

"By working together, the CUC partners have succeeded in creating an outstanding higher education infrastructure for Cornwall in an incredibly short time.

"We now have a golden opportunity to put Cornwall on the map in terms of higher education excellence and the great benefits it brings to individuals and businesses.

IT may not be one of the best known facts about Falmouth, but the port played an important role in the story of Charles Darwin.

With 2009 marking the 200th anniversary of the famed naturalist's birth, it seemed entirely appropriate for Falmouth Art Gallery to stage a series of shows based around Darwin.

The Darwin 200 exhibitions have been funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and organised by the gallery working in partnership with Newquay Zoo, Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance, and University College Falmouth.

The first of the four exhibitions, Voyages of Discovery, is on display now and celebrates Darwin's epic voyage and the discoveries he made on the Galapagos Islands.

The University of Exeter, which shares the Tremough campus in Penryn, is offering an extra 180 bursaries and studentships for postgraduate study, worth more than £7 million.

From politics to ecology, history to molecular biology, there are opportunities for PhD research in a whole range of subject areas at the universities campuses at Tremough and Exeter.

The brand new Maritime Studios were available for students to move in at the start of the 2008-09 Academic year, however there were a few well publicised teething problems that made the start - lets say - not as smooth as we had planned.

The problems thankfully are behind us now, but fell into three areas:

One of the Tremough campus buildings has been officially named after Cornish author Daphne du Maurier in a ceremony attended by her children.

The building is part of the University of Exeter's Cornwall campus and was developed as part of the first phase of development. It houses the library as well as Camborne School of Mines and the centre for ecology and conservation.