Education Makes News

From the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), this media training resource kit is for journalists and media practitioners, to help them understand the international Education For All (EFA) initiative. It is designed to give a wide range of information to assist in writing items on educational issues for newspapers, magazines, or radio/television stations. It can be used on an individual basis or to hold a one-day workshop on the subject of EFA. Trainers will find materials, including ready-made presentations, among others.

According to the Introduction: "Education Makes News aims to mainstream education issues into the news agenda of international, national, and community media. It is also intended for emerging online journalists, including those who write for web logs or blogs. It identifies story ideas and the appropriate information sources. The Kit will enable journalists to put a human face behind the usually cold education statistics, i.e., survival rate, participation rate, dropout rate, and basic and functional literacy rates which otherwise do not mean anything to the ordinary media audience."

Contents:

1. Education For All (EFA)
2. EFA Kit
3. EFA Topics
• Policies and Programmes
• Rights And Access To Learning
• Education And Health
• Education And Sustainable Development
• Education In Society
• Learning Opportunities
• Lifelong Learning
• Improving Educational Outcomes
• Media For Advocacy
• The Future
4. For The Trainer
• For The Trainer
• An Approach To Training
• Workshop Plan
• Workshop Content
5. Resource Materials