NCTJ Training · RQF Level 3
NCTJ Level 3 Diploma In Journalism Practice (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits55
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification5
Awarded by NCTJ Training · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units NCTJ Training 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.
Essential Media Law and Regulation for JournalistsReal unit · NCTJ Training
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal system and court structure in England and Wales
- Understand the operation of the Contempt of Court Act and its relevance to reporting
- Understand the restrictions placed by statute and regulatory (self-regulatory) industry codes on reporting proceedings involving juveniles and sexual offences
- Understand the ethical obligation to be accurate in media reports
- Understand the general principles of defamation law
- Understand the operation of copyright law
- Understand how the law of confidence works
- Understand the law of privacy
- Understand other ethical consideration in medi
Media Law Court ReportingReal unit · NCTJ Training
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal system and court structure in England and Wales
- Understand the operation of the criminal courts
- Understand the reporting restrictions on media reports of preliminary hearings in magistrates’ courts
- Understand the operation and requirements of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 and its relevance to reporting
- Understand the restrictions placed by statute and regulatory (self-regulatory) industry codes on reporting proceedings involving juveniles
- Understand the restrictions placed by statute and regulatory (self-regulatory) industry codes on reporting proceedings involving s
News ReportingReal unit · NCTJ Training
What you'll be able to do
- Use the English language accurately to produce vigorous, well-balanced stories
- Apply ethical principles to day-to-day journalism
- Identify and establish sources of news
- Understand the various types of news stories required for print, online or broadcast readerships
- Generate ideas for stories across various platforms, establishing how a potential story should be developed in an ethical manner and, where appropriate, is in the public interest
- Develop and create stories for a range of platforms that meet ethical guidelines
- Rep
Public Affairs for JournalistsReal unit · NCTJ Training
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how power is exercised and controlled within local and central government in England and Wales
- Understand how local and central government in England and Wales is held to account
- Understand how information can be controlled and accessed
- Understand the sources and controls over public and private sector funding in England and Wales
- Understand how key public services are structured and delivered in England and Wales
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of local government in England and Wales in protecting and developing the environment
- Understand the roles and responsibili
Teeline Shorthand for JournalistsReal unit · NCTJ Training
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of the Teeline shorthand system
- Use Teeline to take down material dictated at speeds of 60 to 120 words per minute (wpm)
- Produce an accurate transcript from dictated material
- Recognise quotes from dictated material at speeds of 90 wpm and up to 120 wpm
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.
- Comply with Broadcasting Organisations’ Values & Codes of Ethical Conduct
- Comply with Telephony Codes in Broadcasting
- Comply with UK legal and regulatory requirements when working in journalism
- Comply with UK legal requirements when working in radio and audio content creation
- Comply with broadcast regulation on privacy
- Comply with codes of conduct, regulations and standards when working in journalism
- Comply with the law in broadcasting
- Comply with the law on contempt and restrictions on reporting legal proceedings
Where this can lead
Senior Media Lawyer
Your journey here is what you make it. We're committed to supporting your growth, whether that's becoming a top-tier specialist, a respected leader, or a strategic business partner. The media industry is exciting, challenging, and constantly evolving, and so should your career.
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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 NCTJ Level 3 Diploma In Journalism Practice (QCF)
5 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NCTJ Training.
- Essential Media Law and Regulation for Journalists
- Media Law Court Reporting
- News Reporting
- Public Affairs for Journalists
- Teeline Shorthand for Journalists
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.