Call for Entries: ZANEC Education and Skills Media Awards (Zambia)

Objectives

• The objective of the awards is to promote reporting on Education and Skills Sector by raising public awareness, understanding, participation and the need for the provision of quality education in the country. The entries are based on one of the three (3) selected Education Sub Sectors namely:
  • Skills and Tertiary Education – with a bias to Academic Freedom and quality of education in Higher Institutions of Learning.
  • Youth and Adult Literacy Education (YALE).
  • Gender and Equity.
• The article; program; documentary or video must demonstrate the author or producer’s understanding of the Education and Skills Sector at the bearest minimum. The articles must also show well researched work compiled by the author. Education articles specifically covering ZANEC positions will have an added advantage.

Categories

• Entries shall consist of the following:
  • Print Journalism: Feature articles or stories published in mainstream newspapers, magazines, journals or newsletters.
  • Radio Journalism: Documentaries or discussion programmes.
  • Television Journalism: Documentaries or discussion programmes.
  • Online/news media: Feature articles or stories published on online media.

Prize Information

• The winners will get a monetary award, a trophy and a certificate.

Eligibility Criteria

• The awards are open for published and broadcasted works.
• Only journalists who are Zambian nationals are eligible for the competition.
• The competition is only open to individual journalists and not media institutions.
• The entries shall be works published/broadcast between 1st September 2022 and 31st August 2023.
• All works entered for the competition shall be in English Language.

For more information, visit ZANEC.