OTEC School of Journalism and Communication Studies has graduated 63 students at its fourth graduation capability held at the establishment's premises at Asawasi in the Asokore Mampong Municipal of the Ashanti district.
The help was held tight Sunday, July 10, 2022 under the subject "Ensuring Responsible Journalism: The Role of Media Training Institutions" with the students getting affirmation confirmations for the 2-year course which revolves around capacities improvement and helping young people with acquiring capacities that will engage them get business.
The Director of Education for Obuasi East Educational Directorate of the Ashanti locale, Kwabena Owusu-Nketia, in his talk, asked the graduands to be trustworthy reporters by seeing the ethics of the calling.
"Be exact, fair and complete very far. Come clean and complete your commitment with honor and approach your obligations with no anxiety or partisanship. You should stay aware of the idea of your reportage at the best quality, this will gather and build up your legitimacy.
"Have a commitment towards your perusers and reliably stay aware of the best assumptions for news-projecting, recognize responses with open standpoint, right and gain from your mistakes, reverify your real factors for precision and avoid doubts," Mr Owusu-Nketia added.
The educationist urged them to prepare to recognize any requests that could come their heading in light of headway, grab extraordinary entryways and make differentiates any spot they end up to fulfill their necessities and needs.
A media subject matter expert, Gabriel Amoah, who was the guest speaker, perceived the responsibility made by the school in its beginning in 2004 by conveying quality media work force all through Ghana in spite of all that continues to be the epitome of making pervasive media content and feature writers.
Mr Amoah, who is the Press Secretary to the Ashanti Regional Minister, Hon Simon Osei Mensah, implored the media getting ready establishments to ensure that they give the kind of educational substance that will shape the mindsets of the students to battle in the gig market.
He saw that most media associations focus a ton of effort around Disk Jockeying, Sports Presentation, Akan News Presentation among others without fitting planning with data and capacities to create exact, fair, changed and impartial stories.
"Students can thrive when they can look at, create creatively, thinks cunningly and act skillfully in the mission to compete for work plans and to restrict hurt in the field of the gig" he communicated.
The Principal of Otec School of Journalism and Communication Studies, Mr Matthew Donkor, in his area said the school is running two (2) Diploma in Journalism and Media Studies. It is cooperated with Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), authoritatively NABPTEX.
He revealed that the school has furthermore begun the cycles for getting certificate from the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), authoritatively National Accreditation Board (NAB).
Mr Donkor saw that the school what started with ten (10) students in 2004 has made numerous obvious and uncommon journalists who are performing decently in the various media establishment countrywide.
To the graduating students, he said "the region needs you more than ever and I feel certain and more relaxed knowing that, as a completely pre-arranged OTECSchool of Journalism and Communication Studies' grandaunts you will continue to be at the Center of noteworthy solutions for the construction of a respectable news inclusion environment in the overall population."
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