Comments on: London centre named best journalism course in UK

By: PMAmediatrain

PMAmediatrain — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:24:27 +0000

Sad to say NCTJ-accredited newspaper journalism courses offer only limited poorly-paid career prospects. Magazine journalism courses, accredited by the PTC, on the other hand offer a bright career. PMA has run fast-track magazine journalism postgrad courses for over 22 years. And we have a 95% success rate on average of getting our postgrads into proper well-paid journalism jobs within a few weeks of graduating. Now there’s a measure of success!

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By: cleland thom

cleland thom — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:44:50 +0000

This story is misleading and inaccurate. The NCTJ has not announced the top journalism providers. It has announced the top NCTJ journalism providers – a big difference. The headline as it stands ignores the dozens of excellent non-NCTJ colleges, universities and training centres who provide top journalism courses and top journalists. Similarly, the intro names News Associate as the top journalism course. It may be the top NCTJ course, but again it’s misleading to say otherwise. And the same applies to Harlow College’s magazine course award – most magazine courses in the UK are accredited by the PTC. Back to basics, perhaps, for the journo who wrote this original story?!

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By: Dead End Dave

Dead End Dave — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:13:43 +0000

I graduated from one of these courses a few years ago and, as far as I can work out, very few of my classmates ever made it into reporting. Somebody should ask whether there is a moral issue about charging these fresh-faced graduates thousands of pounds to enter an industry where there are very few jobs and, if current trends continue, even fewer in future. Further, what happens when these trainees pass their NCEs after two years on the breadline? What about becoming a specialist senior reporter? No pay rise there. What about becoming a sub-editor? No prospects there. I guess what I’m saying is these training centres are selling hundreds of kids a career that, in most cases, doesn’t exist.

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