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Employers can now recruit apprentices on the new Level 6 Journalist apprenticeship, following the publication of the updated standard by Skills England. The apprenticeship has been moved from Level 7 to better reflect the skills and responsibilities of journalists at…
The NCTJ has today published its annual Quality Assurance and Standards Committee report. The committee oversees quality, fairness and standards across all NCTJ qualifications. The report is published to provide transparency and to share key data on NCTJ qualifications. In…
A Manchester student, who completed his NCTJ-accredited course at the University of Salford, faced a tricky decision recently when he had to choose between his dream career and the love of his life.
Phil Henfrey, head of news for ITV, and Mark O’Callaghan, head of news and current affairs for BBC Wales, will be addressing delegates at the NCTJ’s Journalism Skills Conference in Cardiff on Thursday, 2 December.
The NCTJ’s alumnus for September is BBC television and radio journalist John Inverdale.
Nineteen hopefuls will have the chance to pursue a career in journalism after they were awarded bursaries by the Journalism Diversity Fund on Friday, 13 August.
The Football League is to sponsor a new award that recognises the best performing candidates in the sports journalism exam
Mary Hamilton, a reporter for the Eastern Daily Press and Norwich Evening News, won the NCTJ’s Ted Bottomley Award, sponsored by Midland News Association, after scoring 90 per cent on her newspaper practice exam.
The second NCE for sports reporters saw two more trainee reporters achieve senior status in the new qualification.
The NCTJ has awarded the National Certificate Examination to 74 trainee reporters who sat their exams at 11 centres in July.
A past bursary recipient of the Journalism Diversity Fund has gained senior reporter status after passing her National Certificate Examination.
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