Rhodes University’s Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership (SPI) offers editorial and business training programs to both practicing and aspirant media leaders.
SPI offers professional media management and leadership training program and the honors-level Post-Graduate Diploma in Media Management (PDMM). The training programs uniquely combine cutting-edge theory and practice and are led by media industry experts and academics, who seek to provide course participants with knowledge and skills of how to lead sustainable media organizations in rapidly changing conditions typified by Africa’s socio-economic and political landscape.
Postgraduate scholarships for southern African women media leaders
SPI is currently seeking applications for postgraduate scholarships from southern African women media leaders who wish to study media management and leadership at the SPI in 2012. 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.
Scholarship Provisions
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
– The Rhodes University Levy for SADC students; and
– Mid-year internship costs.
About PDMM
The PDMM is a one-year, fulltime program designed to provide people working in the media industry with critical skills and knowledge they need to perform more effectively and strategically in their organizations 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.
The diploma is composed of eight compulsory modules covering media economics and financial management; media markets, audiences and advertising; managing media content; managing circulation and distribution; media management and leadership; media management contexts, policy and institutions; new media and convergence; and human resources management.
Eligibility and Conditions
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 fulfillment of having been granted the scholarship.
Applicants should ideally have completed an undergraduate degree from a recognized university. Experienced media practitioners with diplomas in journalism or mass communication studies will also be considered.
Last date for submission of applications is September 30, 2011
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