Scholarship for Students to participate in the Forum of Journalism Colleges

Updating the curricular and teaching methods in journalism faculties is of particular importance within the agenda of Aljazeera Media Institute. This importance comes from the rapid digital transformations taking place in journalism, the decline in the role of traditional journalism, and the “inability of many colleges to keep up with it in order to “cross into the future.

The institute’s interest in the file of updating the curricula was the result of accumulating a long experience in interacting with students and understanding their needs through training or the various activities of the institute. As such, they held the first preparatory meeting for the Journalism Colleges Forum, which brought together professors, deans, specialists and journalists to formulate a preliminary vision for organizing the first edition of the “Forum of Journalism Colleges in the Arab World”.

There is full awareness at Al Jazeera Media Institute that reforming the curricula to ensure digital transformation based on an understanding of the true role of journalism in monitoring power is not borne by a single party, but rather a collective process in which deans, professors, journalists and students overlap. Therefore, the involvement of students in this forum seems necessary to diagnose their needs and evaluate their learning experiences in various colleges and institutes belonging to the Arab world, along with other stakeholders in the teaching process.

Four students will participate in the forum based on a competition in which the jury will select the best works that meet the criteria of research, innovation and originality in presenting the idea.

Contest topics

• Teaching curricula and digital transformation.
• The reality of teaching journalism in the Arab world.
• Arab experiences in teaching journalism.
• Teaching journalism and openness to social sciences.

Benefits

• The winner gets the opportunity to come to Doha to participate in the Forum of Journalism Colleges in the Arab World.
• The institute covers the costs of a round-trip ticket, to and from the participant’s country, and accommodation in Qatar for the duration of the forum.
• The winning works will be published on Al Jazeera Network platforms.

Conditions

• The participant must be a student pursuing his studies in one of the journalism colleges or public or private institutes in all grades (Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD).
• The article should address one of the competition topics, and works related to other topics will be excluded.
• The article should provide a scholarly addition.
• It must not have been previously published.
• It should be written in sound language and smooth style, taking into account the systematic construction.
• It should include clear outputs and recommendations on updating the topics proposed for participation.
• It is preferable for participants to document their experiences in learning journalism supported by analysis.
• The article should not exceed 2000 words.

For more information, visit Al Jazeera Media Institute.