{"id":2429,"date":"2019-02-05T17:50:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T17:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/?p=2429"},"modified":"2019-02-05T17:50:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T17:50:14","slug":"gij-and-population-council-to-develop-population-reporting-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/05\/gij-and-population-council-to-develop-population-reporting-course\/","title":{"rendered":"GIJ and Population Council to develop population reporting course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/npc.gov.gh\/\">National Population  Council (NPC)<\/a> are collaborating to develop a course module on population  reporting for students in the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The programme, which will be piloted in the 2019\/2020 academic year,  according to the Rector of the school, Professor Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo,  is aimed at equipping students to better understand population dynamics  and how it affects development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Courtesy call<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He gave the hint when he paid a courtesy call on the Executive \nDirector of the National Population Council, Dr Leticia Adelaide Appiah \nat her office in Accra on Thursday, January 31, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Kwansah-Aidoo was accompanied by the Head of Research and  Acting Head of the Department of Communication at the school, Dr  Lawrencia Agyepong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the visit was to enable him to familiarise himself with \nsister state institutions and to find out how best they (institutions) \ncan collaborate to contribute to the development of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said NPC was doing something great which the GIJ finds worthy to \ncollaborate with, saying \u201cWe are interested in what you do and we want \nyou to be interested in what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Prof. Kwansah-Aidoo, the familiarization tour also forms\n part of activities to create public awareness about the school\u2019s \nupcoming 60th anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The school was established in 1959 by the Kwame Nkrumah government to\n provide training in journalism toward the development of a patriotic \ncadre of journalists to play an active role in the emancipation of the \nAfrican continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Linkage<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For her part, Dr Agyepong, said \u201cWe want to link what we do to \ndevelopment of the country\u201d, pointing out that GIJ as an institution \ndoes not only train communicators, but contributes to national \ndevelopment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She commended NPC for instituting media award scheme to whip-up the interest of journalists in population reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to her, the award scheme will help promote understanding of population issues among the populace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Touching on the course, Dr Agyepong said the course will be piloted \nin 2019\/2020 academic year either at level 300 or 400, saying \u201cwe cannot\n leave population to chance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Executive Director of the NPC, Dr Leticia Adelaide Appiah, \nexpressed optimism that the collaboration between the two institutions \nwould greatly contribute to the development of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Population reporting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is important that we work together for the content our media \npeople put out so that policy makers and stakeholders would well \nappreciate the impacts of population on national development,\u201d she \nstated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She expressed her happiness about the decision of the school to \nintroduce a course on population reporting, noting that \u201cI am excited \nthat you have come on board. If we do not sow in season, we cannot reap \nthe expected outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Dr Appiah, issues of population are long term things and\n that long term things don\u2019t attract people\u2019s attention, hence many \npeople particularly in Ghana do not see the effects of the country\u2019s \ngrowing population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPopulation is everything,\u201d she said, adding that the decision by GIJ\n to introduce a course will help journalists and media practitioner to \nhave better understanding of population issues and how to report on such\n issues with clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Appiah said any developed country takes population issues \nseriously, stressing that \u201cpeople are not seeing the importance of \npopulation.\u201d<br>Synchronization<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also expressed worry about lack of synchronization among state \ninstitutions, pointing out that such a practice leaves a lot to be \ndesired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to her, it would be better if state institutions and  agencies work together in the discharge of their duties, saying \u201cWe need  to work together. We cannot sit in our silos.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.graphic.com.gh\/news\/general-news\/gij-and-population-council-to-develop-population-reporting-course.html\">graphic.com.gh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) and the National Population Council (NPC) are collaborating to develop a course module on population reporting for students in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/05\/gij-and-population-council-to-develop-population-reporting-course\/\" title=\"GIJ and Population Council to develop population reporting course\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-2429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-education"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GIJ and Population Council to develop population reporting course - Apt News Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The program aims at equipping students to better understand population dynamics. 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