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How Many Students are Graduating from Australian Journalism Courses?

April 26, 2017Australian Courses graduating journalism students

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by Roger Patching presented at Session 3, Room B, Wednesday, December 6 This paper is based on a comparative study of the 22 vocational University-based journalism courses in Australia, including four newcomers who are yet to produce a graduate. One area which has troubled me, since the explosion in journalism courses in the former Colleges of Advanced Education (CAEs) sector in the early Seventies, and more particularly since the ‘mini explosion’ of new courses in the Nineties, has been how many students have been graduating from the vocational courses big and small around the country. According to several experts there are about 300 entry-level jobs in journalism each year, many of which do not go to journalism graduates. Yet, I found that 840 students completed journalism studies of varying lengths at 18 journalism courses in Australia. Broken down State by State, it shows New South Wales with five courses graduating 275; Queensland, also with five courses, gr