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IFRA announces training topics for 2008 and 2009
Tuesday 04. March 2008 - IFRAs current programme of training events extends from audio content to typography for newspapers
IFRA, the worldwide research and service organisation for the news publishing industry, presents its programme of training events for 2008 and 2009. The training topics are published in a comprehensive brochure that can be downloaded from www.ifra.com/training. Listed also under the same web address are the dates and venues of training courses scheduled for the near future.
Overview of training topics
IFRA offers about 40 training events for the following areas:
– Editorial (www.ifra.com/newsplex),
– Design and concept,
– Production,
– Quality assurance, and
– Management and business development.
For a detailed description of the training contents as well as the corresponding course dates and venues, see the latest, 24-page training brochure (“Seize your opportunities”) which is available also for downloading from the website www.ifra.com/training.
Practice-oriented learning methods
For twelve years, IFRA Training events have been the first choice for training in the news publishing industry. The record registration of more than 1000 participants from 20 countries last year clearly demonstrates that there is a growing need for qualified personnel. IFRAs objective is to provide its members and clients not just with the latest skills that they need in the rapidly changing media world, but also to guarantee a high-quality learning experience. In order to ensure that the participants can acquire the necessary skills in a flexible way, IFRA offers various concepts:
– Workshop and Training: the traditional stand-alone training provides the necessary knowledge and practical experience.
– Coaching: Coaching sessions are ideal for reinforcing stand-alone training and workshops.
– Situated training: This concept emulates the multiple-day, hands-on approach.
– Topics update: The objective of this series of one-day workshops is to inform in a compact manner latest trends in the media industry and discuss relevant concepts in small, intimate groups.
Ideal learning atmosphere with individual solutions
The IFRA Training Centre in Darmstadt offers participants an ideal learning atmosphere:
– a spacious training room equipped the latest technical facilities,
– individual, computerised workplaces as well as sufficient space for the practical team work,
– the number of participants is limited to a maximum six or twelve persons respectively,
– extensive training documentation in printed and digital form, up-to-the-minute background information through our publications, such as IFRA Reports and the IFRA Magazine,
– a certificate testifying to participation,
– individual follow-up support after the training course.
In advance of the training, IFRA contacts the participants to define which aspects the training should cover, to find out about the specific conditions and processes at the operation concerned, e.g. products, technical equipment and work processes, as well as to determine the basic and specialised knowledge of the personnel to be trained.
All of the IFRA trainers are highly skilled experts from the newspaper industry who were selected on the basis of their specialised and international experience as well as their practice-orientation.
IFRA also offers on-site company training. This is the ideal way to ensure that several colleagues simultaneously reach the same level of knowledge and to jointly develop company-specific processes in an aimed manner.