Exhibit JC42 - The Leveson Inquiry

For Distribution to CPsThe importance and meaning of the London University Diploma for Journalism coursewhich this Institute was represented, went some way to filling the gap inpractical instruction in journalism.The N.U.J., which had played no part in the inauguration of the Diploma,was invited to send representatives, which it did throughout the existenceof the course. While the influence of the Institute appeared to wane, withthe outflow of its members to the Union, that of the Union seemed toincrease. The mere existence of the course caused the Union to seriouslyconsider its policy about education and training and, indeed, to institute anEducation Committee. Its attempts at instituting serious proposals forjournalism education superficially appear as of no consequence, with fewresults.Yet I would contend that the Committee really initiated the idea of anational body for overseeing journalism education, early in 1930; but thefailure of another round of ~fusion’ talks with the Institute caused the usualfission, with the result that co-operation was delayed until the post-waryears, after 1945. Both organizations were represented on the Journalists’Advisory Committee to the Advisory Committee to the AppointmentsDepartment of the Ministry of Labour and National Service and bothsupported the idea of the University of London Diploma for Journalism aswell as suggesting that other Universities might be encouraged to offersimilar courses. This was reported to the Interdepartmental Committee onFurther Education and Training, under Lord Hankey, but not included inthat Committee’s report, in 1944.However, it was the N.U.J.’s The Journalist and not the Institute’sJournal which attempted to meet the needs of members with educationalarticles (see Appendix XXVI). The Union even asked the London UniversityJournalism committee to try and extend the full-time course to workingjournalists, indicating at least an interest in the subject among Unionmembers. But, like Dr. Harrison’s later proposals, for non-examinablelecture courses in ’Great Discoveries of Our Time’ (see Appendix XV), this,-too, was in advance of its time, at least as far as London University wasconcerned, and was never introduced.C The StudentsThroughout the Diploma’s twenty-year existence 413 students wereawarded the Diploma, of whom 219 were women (see Table III page 135).Total student numbers throughout that period could have exceeded 1,600excluding those, in the second year of their course from 1939 to 1940, whonever completed the Course, because it was disbanded at the start of theSecond World War in 1939. Less than 100 students graduated duringClarke’s directorship with their Diplomas (but many left after only one yearas they found jobs) and, of these, at least twelve were killed during the war.Those graduating in the summer of 1939 had little opportunity to establishthemselves in newspaper offices and had to wait until the war ended in1945.Even though no established career pattern exists within journalism theproducts of the course appear to have held their own, scaling the editorial188MOD100051359