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  3. The centre assesses, and Pearson Education Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Pearson Education Ltd.

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01What it is

Information for students and teachers of our BTEC Higher Nationals in Journalism (2023), including key documents.

These are the units Pearson Education Ltd 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Concept & Development for Journalism Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll explore the history, theories, and developments in journalism, developing ideas through iterative problem-solving. The unit also covers technical skills and professional behaviours necessary to support creative journalistic practice.

What you'll be able to do

  • Explore the history, theories and developments related to the area of practice
  • Explore and develop ideas, based on an iterative approach to problem solving in creative practice
  • Explore technical knowledge and skills necessary to support creative practice
  • Explore professional knowledge, behaviours and practices within the sector
  • Explore techniques, media and formats to communicate ideas and concepts for diverse audiences
Creative Project for Journalism Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
It teaches you to apply contextual knowledge and analyse briefs to develop creative solutions for journalism projects. You'll use technical skills to produce outcomes and demonstrate professional behaviours while presenting project development and results.

What you'll be able to do

  • Apply relevant contextual knowledge to inform a creative project
  • Analyse a given brief to develop creative solutions, applying an iterative development process
  • Apply technical knowledge and skill in the production of a project outcome
  • Demonstrate professional knowledge, behaviours and practices in response to a given brief
  • Present the development process and outcomes of a creative project for a specified audience
Personal Professional Development for Journalism Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll develop and apply contextual, technical, and professional knowledge to support personal progression in journalism. The unit emphasises creative problem-solving and communication skills to identify and achieve personal development goals.

What you'll be able to do

  • Develop and apply contextual knowledge to inform personal progression within the field of journalism.
  • Develop and apply professional approaches to creative problem-solving to support personal progression in journalism.
  • Develop and apply technical knowledge and skill to support personal progression in journalism.
  • Develop and apply professional knowledge, behaviours and practices to support personal progression in the journalism industry.
  • Develop and apply professional communication skills to support personal progression within the journalism sector.
Professional Project for Journalism Real unit · Pearson Education Ltd
This unit requires learners to apply contextual knowledge and creative problem-solving skills to develop and produce a professional journalism project. You'll demonstrate technical skills, professional behaviours, and project management relevant to the journalism industry.

What you'll be able to do

  • Apply contextual knowledge to inform a response to a professional brief within the field of journalism.
  • Apply creative problem-solving skills in the development of ideas, proposals and final project outcomes for a journalism project.
  • Use technical knowledge and skills to produce professional outcomes in a journalism context.
  • Demonstrate professional knowledge, behaviours and project management skills relevant to the journalism industry.
  • Present project development and outcomes demonstrating professional communication skills appropriate for the journalism sector.
03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Contribute to creativity and innovation in journalism

    Standard

  • Maintain professional practice in journalism

    Standard

  • Originate and Develop Ideas for Editorial Content

    Standard
04Where it leads

The jobs these credits are mapped to

A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.

Where this can lead

Senior Journalist Liaison Manager

This role can lead to managing a media relations team. It can also lead to a director of communications role covering PR, social and executive comms. Another path is working as a senior specialist in corporate reputation and crisis communications.

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05The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Pearson Education Ltd rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Concept & Development for JournalismCreative Project for JournalismPersonal Professional Development for JournalismProfessional Project for Journalism

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Navigator The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration
The Navigator Your plan for “Creative Project for Journalism” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
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What you leave holding

The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them

Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.

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Pearson BTEC Level 5 Higher National Diploma in Journalism
  • Contribute to creativity and innovation in journalism
  • Maintain professional practice in journalism
  • Originate and Develop Ideas for Editorial Content
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Concept & Development for Journalism, one of this qualification's own units.

Concept & Development for Journalism Level 5

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Senior Journalist Liaison Manager

Learners will explore the history, theories, and developments in journalism, developing ideas through iterative problem-solving. The unit also covers technical skills and professional behaviours necessary to support creative journalistic practice.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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Built for Pearson BTEC Level 5 Higher National Diploma in Journalism

4 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.

  1. Concept & Development for Journalism
  2. Creative Project for Journalism
  3. Personal Professional Development for Journalism
  4. Professional Project for Journalism
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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