Education Makes the News in Africa
23-09-2004 (Paris)
Exploring the kit
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Fourteen journalists from eight African countries, who gathered this week at Rhodes University in South Africa for Highway Africa , the biggest annual gathering of journalists in Africa, have participated in a UNESCO workshop using the new Education for All media training resource kit Education Makes News!.
The kit, which comes in resource-packed CD-Rom and print versions, was produced by UNESCO and is aimed, among other things, at improving the understanding and skills of journalists reporting on education and encouraging wider media coverage of EFA issues and goals.
The four-day workshop that runs from 20 to 23 September, is being hosted by Rhodes University's Department of Journalism and immediately followed Highway Africa which focused on ICTs and the media and attracted 500 media professionals last week .
"The workshop has given us the opportunity to zero in on education matters," said Bernard Okebe, a senior reporter for Kenya's The People Daily newspaper. "We all know very well that education is paramount in our lives, but in the daily scramble for news it is often marginalized. Education needs more coverage".
"We need to dig deeper in reporting on education, and to grow understanding of educational issues among our people - governments have made international commitments, and public opinion keeps governments on their toes."
Other journalists attending the course are from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Journalists attending this week's workshop will help to evaluate the kit, which will then be rolled out on a larger scale to countries around the world, targeting media professionals and also educational stakeholders such as policy makers, politicians, NGOs and teachers.
The four-day workshop that runs from 20 to 23 September, is being hosted by Rhodes University's Department of Journalism and immediately followed Highway Africa which focused on ICTs and the media and attracted 500 media professionals last week .
"The workshop has given us the opportunity to zero in on education matters," said Bernard Okebe, a senior reporter for Kenya's The People Daily newspaper. "We all know very well that education is paramount in our lives, but in the daily scramble for news it is often marginalized. Education needs more coverage".
"We need to dig deeper in reporting on education, and to grow understanding of educational issues among our people - governments have made international commitments, and public opinion keeps governments on their toes."
Other journalists attending the course are from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Journalists attending this week's workshop will help to evaluate the kit, which will then be rolled out on a larger scale to countries around the world, targeting media professionals and also educational stakeholders such as policy makers, politicians, NGOs and teachers.
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Related themes/countries
· Training of Media Professionals: News Archives 2004
· South Africa: News Archives 2004
· ICT in Education: News Archives 2004
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