Nkabazwe radio promotes MSU practical radio lessons

 GWERU community radio, Nkabazwe and the Midlands State University (MSU)  are planning to partner in a development set to benefit students at the institution of higher learning in practical radio lessons.

MSU students are allowed to hold lectures at the community radio station as well as touring Nkabazwe studio where they are shown the studio’s operations. The newly-established relationship is meant to give MSU students lessons and prepare them for the industry. Anytime soon, the will be formally partnering with the institution so that students regularly visit the studios and learn more practically than dealing with theoretical aspects only as students will be given recorders and will be educated more to familiarise them with the radio editing software. The aim of this is not only to prepare them for the industry but to also equip them in case the institution gets funds to set its own campus radio. 

This is a good move by MSU and it is of great benefit to students studying media. Maybe the complains that come from the people in the industry about students being full of theory and failing to do anything practical might reduce as students will get practical skills right from part 1. Personally as a Journalism and Media Studies student, l know how difficult it is for one to be told all those technical terms without actually seing the objects being talked about. I remember when l was in part 1 and we were learning about different types of micro- phones, it did not make any sense to me how different they were to each other until the day our own studio at National University of Science and Technology was ready for use. That is were l got to understand better the concepts l was being taught in class.

Universities should maintain the standard of not feeding students with theory but giving them a chance to do actual things that are being done in the field so that by the time students go for attachment and be in the real industry, it will be easy for them to cope.