SHARJAH: Many students attended the workshops of the fifth International Government Communication Forum, IGCF 2016, at the Expo Centre Sharjah, that was opened on Sunday by His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, UAE Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, and concluded yesterday and were all praise for them.
The Gulf Today met a number of university students who came to the forum to attend the workshops. Most of them were saying that they came to get more knowledge about the mass communication field, as well as to meet some professional people in the media and press to learn from their experience.
Yara Younis, Minchun Liu, Ojumiri Emmanuel and Asad Siddiqi are students from the Canadian University Dubai, who attended a number of workshops at the forum. Each one of them came up with a different positive impression about the field of the media.
Emmanuel, who is doing his Bachelor’s in Public Relations, remarks, “I came here because of the passion to know and to learn. I have got an idea about the history of Europe and the period of solidarity and peace after the First World War.”
Yara, who is studying for her Bachelor’s in Advertising, and is in her last year of university, says she attended a couple of workshops on both the first and the second day of the forum. “I had attended a workshop given by Ron Purver, an official from Europe, who guided us to be good PR representatives in an organisation that deals with various countries and nationalities, and to communicate with, like, 25 people from different cultural backgrounds and deliver your media message the right way.”
Another workshop Yara attended was on investigative media, where she learnt how to be an ethical reporter and accordingly probe the wrongdoings that people will refuse to talk about, while ensuring the privacy of the people involved. She says, “I learnt how to present my personal needs with the professional skills on how to help people by giving them news.”
Minchum came because she heard about the forum from her professor. She also found the content of the forum very interesting since it dealt with different aspects such as terrorism and climate change. She learnt that the stakeholder of one’s work is his boss and understood how to deal with the work field members, how to negotiate and discuss certain issues.
Siddiqi, who is doing a Bachelor’s in Journalism, finds the forum interesting because it was a good opportunity to meet officials from different ministries. “I have got an idea about the protocol in terms of emergencies when there are some political victims like for example the refugees, and how to treat those victims, whether we should accept them in society or how to distinguish them in society.”
The Gulf Today met a number of university students who came to the forum to attend the workshops. Most of them were saying that they came to get more knowledge about the mass communication field, as well as to meet some professional people in the media and press to learn from their experience.
Yara Younis, Minchun Liu, Ojumiri Emmanuel and Asad Siddiqi are students from the Canadian University Dubai, who attended a number of workshops at the forum. Each one of them came up with a different positive impression about the field of the media.
Emmanuel, who is doing his Bachelor’s in Public Relations, remarks, “I came here because of the passion to know and to learn. I have got an idea about the history of Europe and the period of solidarity and peace after the First World War.”
Yara, who is studying for her Bachelor’s in Advertising, and is in her last year of university, says she attended a couple of workshops on both the first and the second day of the forum. “I had attended a workshop given by Ron Purver, an official from Europe, who guided us to be good PR representatives in an organisation that deals with various countries and nationalities, and to communicate with, like, 25 people from different cultural backgrounds and deliver your media message the right way.”
Another workshop Yara attended was on investigative media, where she learnt how to be an ethical reporter and accordingly probe the wrongdoings that people will refuse to talk about, while ensuring the privacy of the people involved. She says, “I learnt how to present my personal needs with the professional skills on how to help people by giving them news.”
Minchum came because she heard about the forum from her professor. She also found the content of the forum very interesting since it dealt with different aspects such as terrorism and climate change. She learnt that the stakeholder of one’s work is his boss and understood how to deal with the work field members, how to negotiate and discuss certain issues.
Siddiqi, who is doing a Bachelor’s in Journalism, finds the forum interesting because it was a good opportunity to meet officials from different ministries. “I have got an idea about the protocol in terms of emergencies when there are some political victims like for example the refugees, and how to treat those victims, whether we should accept them in society or how to distinguish them in society.”
Hind Al Kurdi, a freshman at Al Ain University of Science and Technology, and studying journalism, attended a workshop on media by SkyNews. “I learnt about the way of dealing with the social media whether as a normal person of the public or a media representative, besides the general idea of communication skills.”
