The National Council for the Training of Journalists has unveiled for the first time the full list of colleges who will teach the new-style Diploma in Journalism.

A total of 26 centres offering NCTJ-accredited courses have confirmed that from September they will deliver the new multimedia qualification for all journalists.

They are among 41 centres across the country currently delivering NCTJ-accredited courses, ten of whom will continue to deliver the existing preliminary Certificate in Journalism while five centres have yet to confirm which qualification they will deliver.

It is intended that all NCTJ-accredited courses will transfer to the new qualification from September 2011.

The 26 who will deliver the new DipJ from this autumn are:

Bournemouth University
Brunel University
City College, Brighton & Hove
City of Wolverhampton College
Darlington College
De Montfort University
Glyndwr University
Glasgow Caledonian University
Harlow College
Highbury College
Lambeth College
Leeds Trinity University College
Liverpool Community College
News Associates/Sportsbeat (London and Manchester)
noSweat Journalism Training
Nottingham Trent University
St Mary’s University College, Twickenham
Sheffield College
Staffordshire University
University of Central Lancashire
University of Kent
University of Salford
University of Sunderland
University of Teeside
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Lyn Jones, NCTJ head of qualifications, said: “The next academic year will be a transition year for the new qualification with centres given the option to continue with the Certificate or start with the Diploma. Some universities will offer both qualifications side-by-side on their undergraduate degree courses.”

The Diploma in Journalism is made up of seven multimedia assessments – five core subjects to be sat by all students and trainees and six specialist options from which students must sit at least two.

Testing of all new exams for the Diploma in Journalism took place in May with students from ten colleges taking part and providing feedback.

Comments

Ex-Ex (25/06/2010 11:19:13)
You have to wonder why the remaining 15 centres aren’t changing over to the new course this year. Why would any student choose to go on a course leading to a soon-to-be-replaced qualification when they could opt for its replacement? Are the 15 holdouts waiting so that the other colleges do the beta-testing to sort out any problems? Or to see what the demand is for the new course before deciding whether to continue training journalists? (Cornwall College Camborne for instance had no students on its spring course this year.)