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The latest successes in the National Certificate Examination for press photographers have been announced, with eight candidates being awarded the qualification. Ten press photographers and one photojournalist sat the National Council for the Training of Journalists exam on May 15.
A free six-month journalism course is on offer to unemployed Londoners thanks to a European funding initiative. Candidates can take their first steps up the ladder towards a career in radio or print journalism by gaining their City & Guilds
ITN’s Mark Austin was returning to his former college today to launch the largest part of its £8m redevelopment – The Tower. The Tower, Highbury’s largest building, is also the largest development project to date at the Portsmouth college. It
Training places are up for grabs on an award-winning television course where students can take part in a cable news service spearheaded by the Grimsby Telegraph. The Grimsby College course pitches candidates into the real world of television with the
A bursary to help a student embarking on a career in journalism is to be awarded this year for the third time. The £500 grant in memory of former Royston Crow editor Fred Sillence, who died in August 1999, will
A trainee journalist with Darlington College of Technology won top honours in shorthand
Two young people will get their chance in the media industry thanks to a new bursary scheme. The Commission for Racial Equality will pay one year’s living costs for two young people who get a job training in radio, newspaper,
The Evening Press at York has launched a unique reader competition – with a job as a reporter as the prize. The paper is convinced there is untapped talent in its North and East Yorkshire patch and launched the competition
Do you remember Oxdown? The place with a weekly newspaper where mayhem and drama tend to break out on deadline day?
Success by trainee journalists from Darlington College in a recent round of industry exams has brought four of the top five awards to the north-east. The students scored well in the October 2001 results of the National Council for Training
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Sheffield College has notched up 100 per cent success in the Newspaper Journalism prelim exams. All 24 students on the NCTJ Fast Track pre-entry course sailed through the demanding 90-minute paper. And that’s the best performance of any college or
Trainee journalists from a wide range of weekly and evening newspapers have had their hard work rewarded with awards from the National Council for the Training of Journalism. A presentation event was set up by the NCTJ’s North East Regional
The media department at Darlington College of Technology has been designated a Centre of Vocational Excellence in a new Government initiative. The centre – which will bring in more than £500,000 of investment – is part of the journalism, media
Page 3 of 4 Few candidates, it was thought, would not at some time have had to dealwith an MoD (Army) Press Release on local soldiers. They would have anobvious starting point even if they knew nothing of the military
Speech – 185 candidates; 114 passed – 62 per cent The number of satisfactory speech reports in this exam was encouraging,but markers were surprised by the dearth of good, straightforward intros. The speaker was an Oxdown councillor, chairman of the