UNESCO's Model Curricula for Journalism Education provides generic models that can be adapted according to each country's specific needs.
The first UNESCO publication to be made available on the OER Platform is the UNESCO Model Curricula for Journalism Education.
Participants, therefore, recommended to concerned governmental institutions to continue pre- and in-service journalism education and training using leading international tools.
The Model Curricula for Journalism Education is currently available in seven languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Nepali, Russian and Spanish.
In 2007 UNESCO developed the Model Curricula for Journalism Education, which has been adapted by more than 65 journalism schools worldwide.
In October 2002, the National Journalism Education Association named Savidge its Media Person of the Year for his support of scholastic journalism.
The UNESCO Model Curricula on Journalism Education offer a framework for a comprehensive journalism education that can be adapted to specific needs.
Delegates, representing potential centres of excellence in journalism education, will come from institutions in Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Uganda.
Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Teachers and Model Curricula for Journalism Education were highlighted as effective tools for the advancement of journalism excellence.
But faculty members of other universities offering training in journalism will also benefit from the project through training and networking activities and through the setting-up of the national journalism education resource centre.
Under its revised curriculum, which was introduced in 2009 on the basis of UNESCO's Model Curriculum for Journalism Education, the Center now increasingly focuses on practical media and communication training for its graduates.
For years, journalism education in the U.S. aspired towards the empirical certainties of social science, and it did so because the expansion of university education demanded that nontraditional subjects genuflect to the power of scientific enquiry.
The Recommendations, stating that World Journalism Education Congress should be held in Africa, serve as inspiration to the African journalism educators who will be hopeful of receiving publicity and support to enable them to fulfil their potential in the "forgotten continent".
While preparing the curricula, a team of four experts, commissioned for the initial development of the journalism education initiative, solicited a response to their first draft from twenty senior journalism educators who were deemed to have considerable work experience in developing countries and emerging democracies.
Immediately after the 2nd UNESCO workshop, a working meeting, Towards Excellence in Journalism Education, will bring together Potential Centres of Excellence and Reference in Journalism Training in Africa to take stock of the progress made in three broad criteria areas of curriculum and institutional capacity, professional and public service, external links and recognition, and development plan, strategy and potential.
During the 4th annual UN Alliance of Civilizations Forum, specialists from UNESCO took part in the discussions on freedom of expression, where the focus was on journalism education and youth communication, and also on the role of education in sustainable development, which explored the relevance of education to sustainable development as well as the promotion of cultural diversity and intercultural understanding.
Stressing the importance of quality journalism and media education-training as central to the underlying principles of democracy and to the development of Africa as a whole, the consultation focused it attentions on twelve African training institutions in particular, which display a potential capacity to achieve institutional excellence.
Mr. Johnson envisions a new political movement that embraces the potential of peer networks to improve government, medicine, education and journalism, among much else.
And for years the slow pace of technological change meant that the supply of new journalists, provided through a broad journalism or general humanities education, would slot into the marketplace with little increase or decrease in overall income.
According to UNESCO's Advisor for Communication and Information in the Kingston Office, Isidro Fernandez-Aballi, UNESCO is always willing to work with institutions of higher education to improve journalism output as this is considered a cornerstone of a strong society.
Then, you look at which industries are poised to enable societal change: energy, education, transportation, journalism, and so on.
He leads a diverse, international team with experience in education, global health and development, advocacy and journalism.
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