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About Thornmere.
A college of arts, science and commerce, organised around one idea: you should be able to find out what it is, what it teaches and what it publishes without asking anyone.
The college
Autonomous, and accountable for it.
Autonomy lets a college set its own curriculum. It also means answering for it in public.
Thornmere teaches 11 programmes across three faculties on one campus. As an autonomous college it designs its own curriculum, runs its own examinations and publishes the disclosures that come with that responsibility.
Those disclosures are kept on one page, readable without a login, because a record that needs a password is not much of a public record.
Faculties
Three faculties, one campus.
Students take electives across faculty lines from the second year.
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Arts
Film and media production, multimedia and communication, emerging media arts, and film and media studies.
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Science
Artificial intelligence and data science, and information technology, at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
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Commerce
Management studies, accounting and finance, and a postgraduate programme in commerce.
Governance
Who decides what.
Five bodies, each with one job, and each one listed so a student knows where to go.
- Governing body
- Sets policy and approves the budget.
- Principal
- Leads the academic and administrative work of the college.
- Academic council
- Approves curricula and examination regulations before a session begins.
- IQAC
- Reviews quality across the college and publishes an annual report. Read it.
- Ombudsperson
- Hears student complaints independently of the college's administration. How to reach them.
On a live site each role lists its current holder and term of office.
Campus
One site, everything on it.
Studios, laboratories, a library and teaching rooms at Riverside Campus.
The film and media studios, the computing laboratories and the library share one campus, so a student can move between them in a day. Opening hours and access arrangements are on the contact page.
The campus is described in words and not in a plan, because a drawn map would imply a precision this page cannot yet stand behind. The accessibility statement says what is and is not step-free.