The Thomson Foundation Television College, Kirkhill House, Newton Mearns, near Glasgow was established by Canadian-born media magnate, Lord Roy Thomson, in the early 1960s offering courses and training for producers, engineers and news editors. Students came from countries all over the world. Skilled staff and the facilities of a modern television station in miniature helped these students develop their communication art.
Glasgow, Scotland
1966
Thomson Foundation history
Frequently it has been my privilege to entertain in this country the trainee journalists and trainee press administrators who have come here from Commonwealth countries, many of them very new emerging countries, under the aegis of the Thomson Foundation