Rhodes University’s Sol Plaatje Institute (SPI) for Media Leadership invites women media leaders from Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), who wish to study media management and leadership at the SPI in 2012, to apply for postgraduate scholarships. Successful applicants will register for the SPI’s one year, fulltime Postgraduate Diploma in Media Management (PDMM), the only university-level media management course in Africa.
The scholarships are sponsored by the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and they are for women media leaders in OSISA’s 10 Southern African countries of Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The scholarships cover:
- The full cost of PDMM tuition
- Accommodation and meals in one of Rhodes University’s postgraduate residences
- Course materials and books
- A monthly subsistence allowance
- Medical insurance
- Rhodes University Levy for SADC students; and
- Mid-year internship costs.
About PDMM
The PDMM is a one-year, fulltime programme designed to provide people working in the media industry with critical skills and knowledge they need to perform more effectively and strategically in their organisations and to fast-track their careers to management positions.
The PDMM is equivalent to an honours degree — it is pegged at Level 8 on the National Qualifications Framework set by South Africa’s qualifications-setting agency SAQA — and combines rigorous theoretical and practical grounding.
Application details and procedures:
Only female students from OSISA’s 10 countries of Southern Africa listed above are eligible to apply for these scholarships. Applicants should ideally come from media companies. Successful applicants will be required on completion of the PDMM to return to their employers in their home countries to work there for a period of at least a year in partial fulfilment of having been granted the scholarship. Applicants should ideally have completed an undergraduate degree from a recognised university. Experienced media practitioners with diplomas in journalism or mass communication studies will also be considered.
Last date for submission of application is September 30, 2011
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