JMI Organizes Seminar on Media Faculties and Labor Market

23 November (Jordan Media Institute) -- The Jordan Media Institute (JMI), with the participation of the University of Jordan, organized a seminar titled &quot;Media Faculties at Arab Universities and Labor Market&quot; as part of the activities of the third forum of the Arab Association for Research and Communication Sciences.<br /> <br /> JMI Dean Dr. Basim Tweissi spoke about the experience of JMI in teaching applied media, saying it has managed to achieve the highest employment rate for graduates, which exceeded 90%. He pointed out that the study plans of JMI are supplemented by plans for curricular activities that include training programs and student exchange with a number of teaching and professional institutions worldwide. Also, JMI students have numerous training opportunities as part of the external fellowship program.<br /> <br /> Tweissi called for bringing about significant changes at media faculties in Arab universities to include study plans, curricula, admission systems, developing the capacities of the teaching staff, and keeping up with technology in the media.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> Dr. May Abdullah, president of the Arab Association for Research and Communication Sciences, stressed that Arab media, in some respects, needs reform and real change. Some aspects are related to the curricula of media and communication sciences at media faculties, while others have to do with conducting more scientific research.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> She noted that the sessions of the forum addressed various fields in terms of programs, training, and problems, such as teaching media and communication in theory and practice, educational programs and curricula, training and labor market, modern methods of education, strategies for developing teaching, the problematic question of language in academic experience, issues of training, and Arab academic teaching and labor market.<br /> <br /> Around 40 academics from 30 universities took part in the seminar, which discussed 10 working papers on academic teaching at media faculties and the need for them to be in line with the needs of the labor market.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> At the conclusion of its activities, the forum issued a statement on the need for monitoring media and academic institutions in the field of media market, the need to develop agreements between media training centers in the Arab world, the focus on the integration of researchers into the media reality, building complementarity in specializations, and consolidating the conceptual and knowledge aspects on the part of researchers in the media field.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> &nbsp;