AIBD organizes a large number of workshops for broadcasters in the region. For conducting the workshops, the medium of communication used is English. Hence when AIBD calls for nominations the proficiency in English is used as one of the criteria. In the application forms used by AIBD, command over English language is one of the columns and the applicants are required to mark their self-assessment as excellent good and fair.

In spite of such precautions taken in the attempt to making the workshops participatory, quite often the international consultants find it difficult to get some of the participants to take part in discussions and at times there are cases where a few participants do not even understand what is being discussed. Some consultants who are aware of the problem request for translators and interpreters to make their workshops more effective.

The problem is acute in some countries but the problem surfaces even in Commonwealth countries where historically the situation is better.

In short English language proficiency of the broadcasters is one of the obstacles in making the AIBD workshops more effective than it is today.

AIBD therefore intends to open up online courses in English for Broadcasters. We are looking at three courses: Beginners level, middle level and advanced.

Programme

We have three choices of courses. The basic course will design to address the basic skills in English language. It will build up basic vocabulary to deal with day-today activities in Broadcast industry and some amount of grammar would be introduced.

The intermediate course will focus on building up the skills to more advanced level vocabulary, grammar and sentence constructions to deal with interactions in broadcast sector.

The advanced course would make the trainees adequately trained to participate in discussions dealing with issues related to broadcast sector.

Each of the said three levels would be of 2 months duration. In effect building up a cadre of broadcasters who are comfortable with English in only six months time.

Since the entire set of three courses is offered online, the staff of members and affiliates of AIBD could take these courses while working. As long as the participants have access to the Internet, they could participate in the said courses no matter where they are. Our partner in this programme would be the Management Institute of Canada (MIC) that is also an AIBD Affiliate member. MIC will also issue the certificates. Some 50 participants would be able to participate in each course.
Certificate

Upon successful completion of the programme, participants will receive the certificate given by Management Institute of Canada.

Registration Fees

The registration Fee for each of the above-mentioned 2-month course would be USD200.00. The fee could either be paid by the participants or by their respective organizations. Respective organisations may also be willing to contribute to this project by covering part of the fee for each of their staff member.

Sponsorship Scheme

AIBD is trying to get some sponsorship for a certain number of countries only. It may vary from country to country. Members may also consider sponsoring and nominating up to 1000 participants during a period of 2 years to ensure that their staff would be fluent in English and benefit from various English sources. In case you want to benefit from this sponsorship scheme. If you need sponsorship for your nomination, please advise us and we would also need to know the number of participants.

Registration information is available at www.aibd.org.my

Please check our website for any important additional information.

Last updated 17.09.08 23:41 by Lisa, Project Reference D-267-MY-08

General notice regarding participation: For most AIBD projects you cannot apply directly by contacting AIBD. We can process direct applications only in case of seminars and conferences, which have been explicitly declared as being open to the public. For other kinds of projects you must have received a nomination and specific forms from an invited AIBD member organization before we can process your application.