NASH School Of Journalism is perhaps the only known institution offering diploma certification in journalism studies in Singapore. Pedagogically, it is vastly different from conventional Mass Communications programmes.
At NASH, students are trained not just for eventual media careers. They are given fulfillment.
The school was inaugurated by Mr Jaya Prakash, a practising journalist in 2003 and was incorporated only in May 2010 after Singapore's Private Education Act, aimed at streamlining the nation’s vast education industry came into force.
There is a compelling reason why you need to come to NASH.
Unlike the ‘orthodoxy’ of theory taught in Mass Communications programmes
NASH does it differently. The school drills students in all the practical
components of modern-day print journalism as to ensure their works are
eventually published. This skill is vital to secure coveted media jobs for
as is often the case, newspaper and magazine editors only hire job
applicants with proven published works. And at NASH we will do that for
you.
Yet the NASH Diploma is also much about equipping you with skills for public relations, advertising and marketing work and just about in anything where communication skills are a premium!
So with just a single diploma, a bright new world will break out right before your eyes.
If the future is what you make of it, we will go out and train you for that future.
And with a NASH diploma you also get a good fighting chance of a university place. How NASH does this is by a simple test of getting every student to accomplish a major dissertation of media theories. It is to test a student’s maturity and analytical powers - criteria key for university admission.
Such requirements as training a student for a media career and positioning
for a university placing is rarely found in other diploma-based humanities
programmes. What the NASH certification gives you in a sense is actually a
university education done at a diploma level!
What the NASH actually gives you, in a sense, is actually a university education done at diploma level!
At NASH, it is all about making a difference. A difference meant at making you a ‘wholesome’ journalist. Through the school’s partnership programme with South Africa’s Durban University of Technology (DUT) – opportunities abound to understand and keep the process of researching, discovering and learning so very fluid that you may just not know when to stop!
That’s not all. The agreement with DUT gives you the opportunity to broaden your learning by student exchange programmes and straddle across platforms in today’s rapidly changing media landscape.
So sign up with Nash now. You will never how exciting the universe of journalism really is? Or what a matriculation in communication studies can really do for you, your future and the promise it holds.
COURSE DURATION
The course programme takes a total of 360 hours in coursework, excluding
the field trips that students need to make and the time spent
investigating and reporting on stories.
Total Course Duration / Weekly
Instruction Hours (time-table)
The price for the Diploma in Journalism is $6,500.00, excluding purchase
of books and fees for thesis evaluation.
Nash also runs month-long certificate courses aimed at helping those who
want to make a quick break into journalism. The certificate course gives
exemptions for those enrolling into the diploma programme and is ideal for
secondary and junior college students to learn about the true mechanics of
journalism as it will help to securing them a job when they leave school.
