Standards: Making Better Broadcasters
How it all began?
Radio Awaz FM is an Asian Community Radio Station operating out of Glasgow's South Side which broadcasting to over 50,000 listeners and dependent solely upon a team of dedicated volunteers to run the station 24 hours a day; 7 days week. Reid Kerr College in Paisley had an excellent working relationship with Radio Awaz as a result of previous joint working, having previously delivered a course in music programming tailored to the needs of the radio station.
So when Radio Awazcontacted David Manderson, Programme Course Leader of Reid Kerr College to look at the possibly of delivering bespoke training for the volunteers it made ideal sense to the involve Alasdair Smith, Skillset's Scotland and Northern Ireland Director, who directed the college to the National Occupational Standards for Radio Production
So what's so different about this training course?
The Radio Production Vocational Training Programme has been designed solely around Skillset's Occupational Standards in Radio Production as the content of the programme is taken from the range of units of the Radio Production National Occupational Standards.
This approach differs from the traditional method of first of all designing a programme and then mapping it to the standards as here the standards were the building block for the programme. Subject areas include; "Contributing Ideas for Radio Production", "Evaluating a Research Proposal", "Assisting with Radio Production" and "Writing Scripts for Radio Items".
The Students
The group consists of a real diverse mix of ages, backgrounds and professions. The youngest student is 20 years old and the oldest are in their mid 50's, which allows for great discussion and a great mix of programming thus reaching an even more great diverse audience.
John Collins, one of Scotland's best known Radio Producers, is in charge of delivering this training programme. In his opinion the success of this programme resides in the fact of has been drawn directly from the standards which are written by industry people for the industry. "The standards are a good measuring stick for their skills and ultimately will make them better broadcasters. There is a broadcast standard by which we mean best practice (...) we are now meeting that standard".
Positive outcomes on Radio AWAZBetter provision and infrastructure
Investment in new technology
"Professional" volunteers
Positive outcomes on Reid Kerr CollegeAble to meet the needs of employers
Training for industry to industry standard
Positive Outcome for ParticipantsAligned to industry
Much more prepared for the real world of work
Trained to industry standards
Identifiable progression routes
Radio Awaz FM is an Asian Community Radio Station operating out of Glasgow's South Side which broadcasting to over 50,000 listeners and dependent solely upon a team of dedicated volunteers to run the station 24 hours a day; 7 days week. Reid Kerr College in Paisley had an excellent working relationship with Radio Awaz as a result of previous joint working, having previously delivered a course in music programming tailored to the needs of the radio station.
So when Radio Awazcontacted David Manderson, Programme Course Leader of Reid Kerr College to look at the possibly of delivering bespoke training for the volunteers it made ideal sense to the involve Alasdair Smith, Skillset's Scotland and Northern Ireland Director, who directed the college to the National Occupational Standards for Radio Production
So what's so different about this training course?
The Radio Production Vocational Training Programme has been designed solely around Skillset's Occupational Standards in Radio Production as the content of the programme is taken from the range of units of the Radio Production National Occupational Standards.
This approach differs from the traditional method of first of all designing a programme and then mapping it to the standards as here the standards were the building block for the programme. Subject areas include; "Contributing Ideas for Radio Production", "Evaluating a Research Proposal", "Assisting with Radio Production" and "Writing Scripts for Radio Items".
The Students
The group consists of a real diverse mix of ages, backgrounds and professions. The youngest student is 20 years old and the oldest are in their mid 50's, which allows for great discussion and a great mix of programming thus reaching an even more great diverse audience.
John Collins, one of Scotland's best known Radio Producers, is in charge of delivering this training programme. In his opinion the success of this programme resides in the fact of has been drawn directly from the standards which are written by industry people for the industry. "The standards are a good measuring stick for their skills and ultimately will make them better broadcasters. There is a broadcast standard by which we mean best practice (...) we are now meeting that standard".
Positive outcomes on Radio AWAZ
Positive outcomes on Reid Kerr College
Positive Outcome for Participants
