Info For You Lot Knight Foundation Scholarships For Rhodes University’S Media Leadership Institute

Knight Foundation Scholarships

Course(s) Offered: Media Management
Course Level: Postgraduate Diploma
Provider: Knight Foundation
Country to Study in: South Africa

Scholarship Description
The Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership (SPI) at Rhodes University’s School of Journalism as well as Media Studies invites applications for 3 scholarships from Southern African students who wishing to register for the SPI’s Postgraduate Diploma inwards Media Management (PDMM) inwards 2011.

Eligibility
Application details as well as procedures:
Students from Southern Africa are eligible to utilise for these scholarships.

Applicants should ideally come upwardly from media companies which are currently using or experimenting alongside New Media, also their traditional trouble organization platforms.

Successful applicants volition live on required to comport question into the purpose of New Media platforms past times a Rhodes University-owned newspaper, the Grocott’s Mail. Applicants should ideally convey completed an undergraduate grade from a recognised university. Experienced media practitioners alongside diplomas inwards journalism or volume communication studies volition also live on considered.

Eligible groups
The PDMM is a one-year fulltime programme designed to furnish people working inwards the media manufacture alongside skills as well as noesis they require to perform to a greater extent than effectively inwards their organisations as well as to fast-track their careers to administration positions.

Participating Institutions
Sol Plaatje Institute, Rhodes University School of Journalism as well as Media Studies

Fields of study
The PDMM is equivalent to an honours grade as well as combines rigorous theoretical as well as practical grounding. The diploma is composed of 8 compulsory modules roofing media economic science as well as fiscal management; media markets, audiences as well as advertising; managing media content; managing circulation as well as distribution; media administration as well as leadership; media administration contexts, policy as well as institutions; novel media as well as convergence; as well as human resources.

Sponsorship duration
The PDMM is a one-year fulltime programme

Scholarship Benefits
The scholarships are sponsored past times the Knight Foundation. These are partial scholarships which comprehend exclusively the student’s accommodation at Rhodes University as well as the PDMM tuition fees. This way that successful applicants must brand their ain arrangements for shipping to as well as from Rhodes University; medical insurance as well as a living stipend during the year.

NOTE: Non-South African students should additionally budget close R3500 (three thou as well as 5 hundred rand) to comprehend a levy for unusual students studying at Rhodes University.

Method of Application
Students wishing to utilise for these scholarships require to:
  • Complete the Rhodes University’s measure Honours Application grade as well as the New Student form. Alternatively, they tin asking these application forms from SPI, band no: +27-046-603-8851.
  • Submit a detailed Curriculum Vitae, including contact details
  • Submit a certified academic transcript; and
  • Submit a 1000-word missive of the alphabet of motivation, which explains why the educatee is interesting inwards doing the PDMM; how the PDMM volition assist the student’s career as well as why the educatee believes she/he qualifies for the Knight scholarship.
The CV, academic transcript as well as missive of the alphabet of motivation may live on submitted past times e-mail to Monique Senekal, m.senekal@ru.ac.za or faxed to her at +27-046-622-9591, clearly indicating which scholarship the students is applying for.

NOTE: No piece of cake applications volition live on considered.

Application Deadline: xv Oct 2010
Open to International students: Yes

Further Scholarship Information as well as Application

Related: Scholarships inwards South Africa for International Students
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