News Associates – Journalism degrees and free workshops

I’m getting in touch with some helpful resources and information about our multimedia journalism degree in London and Manchester. Feel free to share this email, and my email address ldyer@newsassociates.co.uk, with your sixth form students. I have attached a PDF of our brochure for you too. 

The School of Journalism is an NCTJ-accredited BA Multimedia Journalism degree taught by the UK’s number one journalism school, News Associates.

If any of your students are interested in a career in journalism and the media then the NCTJ (National Council for the Training of Journalists) is the qualification they need. Learn more here.

At The School of Journalism and News Associates we work closely with national newspapers and broadcasters to deliver their staff training – including The Times and Sunday Times, the Financial Times, Yahoo, Sky Sports News, The Daily Mail and The Sun – meaning 94% of our graduates are in paid journalism jobs within a month of graduating.

Trainees leave the School of Journalism with their BA and the NCTJ qualification – meaning they don’t have to go on to do an expensive postgraduate course! 100% of our final year trainees this year are expected to graduate with the gold-standard NCTJ qualification, alongside 57% predicted a first and 29% predicted a 2.1.

Last year the top-performing NCTJ-accredited journalism degree only achieved 38% gold-standard passes. (Gold-standard is the level needed for a job in journalism. It’s A-C in all modules and 100 words-per-minute shorthand.)

We thought you might like to read about our commitment to making journalism more diverse – click here.

Summer bursary

Every year we offer our trainees up to £1,000 to spend on a journalism project or for work experience. We thought we’d share some of the highlights:

Luke travelled to Bermuda to film a boxing documentary

Harry covered Cannes and Venice film festivals

Jacob got accreditation for the Copa America football tournament in Brazil

Lauren flew to Dubai to work for Time Out magazine and Olivia went to Spain to write for the Olive Press

COVID-19

We understand it is a tricky time to for students in year 13 heading off to university this year so we have reassured all of our applicants that the majority of their classes will continue to be taught face to face.

We are not a traditional university and the students who apply to us don’t want huge lecture theatres where professors don’t know their name. We run small and practical sessions where tutors know their trainees individually. Our small classes and big classrooms means we can keep trainees socially distanced as long as necessary.

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UCAS Extra and Clearing

If any of your students have changed their mind about going to university then we have places in UCAS Extra and Clearing.

Clearing has changed for 2020 and I thought your students might find this helpful.

To apply for The School of Journalism via UCAS you will need the codes below.

Course code: MUJO

Institution code: P63

Campus: Manchester (M) or London (L)

This explains our relationship with Marjon University.

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Free journalism workshops

We will be running free journalism workshops for sixth form students in our London and Manchester campuses this August. These will be socially distanced and we can add more dates if there is enough demand. We have also added two virtual events!

Please tell your students to get in touch with me if they are interested.

These are for sixth form students only (including those starting year 12 in September 2020) and the two sessions in the office will be the same so they’ll only need to attend one.

Monday August 10, 1pm-4pm – Manchester
Tuesday August 11, 10:30am-1:30pm – Manchester
Friday August 14 – 11am-12pm – virtual open day/Clearing drop-in on Zoom
Monday August 17, 10:30am-1:30pm – London
Tuesday August 18, 10:30am-1:30pm – London
Thursday August 20, 10:30am-1:30pm – remote on Zoom

Click here for our addresses.

Lucy Dyer, Editorial Development Manager

T: 0203 026 3781

M: 07947 379128

@Lucyedyer

www.newsassociates.co.uk | www.schoolofjournalism.co.uk

SOJ brochure OCT 2019