Skills and Education Group Awards · RQF Level 3
ABC Level 3 Certificate In Journalism
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits32
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification10
Awarded by Skills and Education Group Awards · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Skills and Education Group Awards registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
2D Design Software for LayoutsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise approaches to design layout
- Experiment with 2D design software to create layouts
- Use 2D design software to create layouts
- Manage and store digital files
- Review own creative development
Applying Specialist Knowledge and Skills to Journalism Problem SolvingReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Assess a journalism problem
- Recognise journalism skills requirements
- Produce a journalism project plan
- Implement a journalism project plan
Digital Design and Publishing SkillsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Use appropriate hardware and software tools for the production of printed and electronic outcomes
- Manage and store files securely
- Understand how principles of layout and visual design are applied to the production of visual communication outcomes
- Combine text and image within designs
- Be able produce effective visual communication outcomes in response to feedback
- Organise, small-scale digital publishing projects
Digital Video EditingReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Utilise digital video editing processes and software to compile a series of video shots intonarrative sequences
- Employ a digital video editing processes to enhance narrative sequence
- Manage and store digital imagery
- Review own creative development
Employment and Freelancing in the Creative IndustriesReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand business and economic influences on opportunities in the creative industries
- Recognise commercial and professional opportunities
- Produce a business development plan for a creative enterprise
- Use self promotion methods to support personal progression
Features Journalism SkillsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics of intended audiences/readerships for a range of styles and types of feature articles
- Research suitable material for a range of themes in features articles
- Understand the importance of visual content in the writing of feature articles
- Use writing styles for feature stories
Media Sound EditingReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of audio files and archive methods
- Integrate audio activity into media file
- Understand the key aspects of digital audio manipulation
- Review own development
PhotojournalismReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand approaches to photojournalism
- Understand how to respond to varying environmental conditions
- Select topics for photojournalism
- Capture photojournalistic images
- Prepare and output images for intended photojournalistic purpose
- Be able create a personal presentation portfolio of photojournalistic images
- Review own creative development
Sub-Editing and Copy ProductionReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of a sub-editor
- Proof read, correct and produce copy
- Create headlines and sub-headings for a story
- Use journalistic writing skills to improve original copy
- Layout a page for maximum journalistic impact
Writing Skills For JournalismReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know about professional practice in journalism
- Understand the importance of house style
- Write in a style suitable to different readerships
- Review own creative development
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Design and produce page layout
- Edit Copy
- Manage audio content using different applications, platforms and media
- Write headings for editorial content
Where this can lead
Associate Video Editor
Your journey starts here, but where it goes is entirely up to you. We'll give you the tools, the training, and the opportunities to build a fantastic career in video. The most important thing is your passion for the craft and your drive to keep learning and creating. We're excited to see what you'll achieve.
See the whole journey →Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ABC Level 3 Certificate In Journalism
10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Skills and Education Group Awards.
- 2D Design Software for Layouts
- Applying Specialist Knowledge and Skills to Journalism Problem Solving
- Digital Design and Publishing Skills
- Digital Video Editing
- Employment and Freelancing in the Creative Industries
- Features Journalism Skills
and 4 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.