Study Of Journalism

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32118, 14 October 1969, Page 2

Study Of Journalism

A nature writer on the women’s page of the Singapore “Eastern Sun,” Mrs V. T. Joseph, win take, the special course for Asian journalists at the Wellington Polytechnic School of Journalism. She is the first journalist from Asia to come to New Zealend to attend the new course. Mrs Joseph accompanied her husband, Dr V. T. Joseph, who with Dr S. P. Vij, also from Singapore, has come to New Zealand under the Commonwealth Medical Aid Programme to study for fellowships of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Formerly a teacher for the Adult Education Board in Singapore, Mrs Joseph entered journalism by chance at the suggestion of a friend, and wrote on a free-lance basis for the “Eastern Sun’’ for six months. The management of the paper then offered her full-time employment. She read the prospectus of the school at the New Zealand High Commissioner’s office in Singapore and to gain formal journalist training she decided to apply and accompany her husband to New Zealand. After completing the course Mrs Joseph hopes she will be able to work on a New Zealand newspaper or magazine. The new course is believed to be the only full-time prac-

tical course for young journalists in the Paciffc-Asian region. It is a four-term course. A journalist from Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, has applied to join, and there have been several other enquiries from interested Asian journalists. The photograph shows Mrs Joseph with Mr N. Harrison, head of the school of general studies at the Wei* lington Polytechnic.