The African Institute of Journalism and Communication AIJC will start a two-year diploma programme in communication and related programmes from September this year.

Courses that will be offered include Journalism, Public Relations, Advertising and Marketing and Advertisement. Mr. Kojo Yankah, President of the Institute, disclosed this at the launch of the AIJC in Accra.

He said AIJC will train communication professionals to help raise the standards of professionalism in the media in Africa. Mr. Yankah said students of AIJC would be given computer training in order to get the media to know about information technology.

"For the next year, we shall operate from the ON-LINE House on rental basis, after which we plan moving into the 2.6 acre plot abandoned State Hotels Training School in Tema, which we have won on tender from the Divestiture Implementation Committee," he noted.

He mentioned that experienced professionals would be lecturing on both full and part-time basis. "We are collaborating with the World Press Institute, World Links, the International Centre for Foreign Journalists among other media organizations to attain the best," he said.