Students & Education

People’s Watch is inviting applications form working journalists in the print media for the Mukundan Menon Media Fellowship under its national Project on Prevention of Torture in India. This National Project is being implemented in Nine States (Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka). Peoples Watch, the implementing organisation of...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More U.S. teachers are using national and international online news sites in the classroom, leaving behind newspapers that fail to grasp the Internet's importance in trying to reach students, a study found. Fifty-seven percent of teachers use Internet-based news in the classroom with some frequency, said the study, which was based on a survey of 1,262 teachers in grades 5...

The Jayaraman family and the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) are collaborating in instituting the Anupama Jayaraman Memorial Award for young women journalists. The Award has been set up in the memory of Anupama Jayaraman, a young and promising Bangalore-based journalist who passed away in January 2006. Anupama was not only multi-talented and energetic, but she also demonstrated a keen...

Workshop for Journalists on Child Labour and Children and Media In conjunction with the 5th annual meeting of the Network of Women in Media, India Bangalore, 9-11 February 2007 Workshop dates: 12-15 February 2007 Deadline for registration: 15 January 2007 The workshop for journalists (male and female) will be designed and conducted by the Concerned for Working Children, Bangalore. The Concerned...

The Zimbabwe government has directed the country's largest journalism training school to accept only students who have completed a controversial national youth-service training programme -- blamed by critics for brainwashing youths into zealots of President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party. Churches and human rights groups say graduates of the training programme, which is run by former and...

The Zimbabwe government has directed the country’s largest journalism training school to accept only students who have completed a controversial national youth-service training programme — blamed by critics for brainwashing youths into zealots of President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu-PF party. Churches and human rights groups say graduates of the training programme, which is run by former and...

They're fresh out of college and very excited about getting into the big bad world of journalism. Deadlines excite them, breaking news sets their adrenaline rushing and the very mention of 'exclusive story' makes them feel like future Pulitzer recipients. We're talking about journalism students who're taking baby steps into newspapers and TV channels. Do cub reporters believe they're the...

JOURNALISM courses run by the University of the Sunshine Coast, the University of Western Sydney and the private Brisbane college Jschool have been judged the best by their students. All the graduates of those courses who returned questionnaires in the annual Graduate Careers Council of Australia survey said they were very satisfied or satisfied. Rounding out the top five were Perth's Murdoch...

The Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University (ACFJ) is offering 15 fellowship grants to outstanding working journalists interested in pursuing the Master of Arts in Journalism at the Ateneo starting school year 2007-2008. The ACFJ fellowships support the graduate studies of seasoned journalists as well as young journalists who have the potential to do...

Cambridge University called them a "soft" option this week. John Humphrys thinks they're pointless. In the more macho parts of journalism, real journos don't study. They roll up their sleeves and report. Yet thousands of young people sign up to media studies courses. They have helped produce former Channel 4 chief executive Michael Jackson (Westminster University); Sunday Times editor John...