Quality training needed
What you need to know:
- The next step should be to ensure that only colleges that meet the basic requirements are certified to offer these diploma courses.
- And the trainers, too, must be vetted to ensure quality.
The development of a curriculum for middle-level colleges offering diploma courses in journalism and media studies is a welcome means to streamline training.
There is a huge demand by school leavers for training in media studies in tertiary institutions outside the courses offered at university level.
It is this thirst that is fuelling the mushrooming of journalism institutes that badly lack in qualified personnel and have little in way of facilities and equipment.
The curriculum developed by the Media Council of Kenya has got the nod of the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development. And better still, the students will sit examinations set and marked by the Kenya National Examinations Council.
Besides the makeshift and sub-standard colleges operating in nondescript locations in various towns, some young people have spent fortunes pursuing online courses whose certificates cannot guarantee them jobs.
The next step should be to ensure that only colleges that meet the basic requirements are certified to offer these diploma courses. And the trainers, too, must be vetted to ensure quality.
A solid diploma is a ticket to ply the trade in the many media companies and organisations and also an avenue for career development and further training at the university level.
