But shorthand is still mandatory in some professions. The National Council for the Training of Journalists insists trainees achieve a written speed of 100 words per minute to pass its diploma. It ...

A student with cerebral palsy will be able to take part in a college journalism course after a u-turn on the need for him to take shorthand classes. Kyle Gunn completed a media studies course at ...

The editor-in-chief of the UK’s biggest news agency has said job applications he receives without shorthand go “straight in the bin” as the skill’s necessity for journalists was the subject of ...

THE director of a journalism college run by email and on the internet is offering free shorthand courses to the four Coventry University students who missed out. Cleland Thom, who runs e-college CTJT, ...

A news agency boss has dubbed some journalism courses “Del Boy degrees” because they don’t make 100 words per minute shorthand compulsory. Jon Harris, managing director of Cavendish Press based at ...

The Madras High Court on Friday, September 22, 2023 dismissed a public interest litigation petition which sought a direction to the Director of Technical Education (DoTE) to give wide publicity ...

For more than 2,000 years people have used shorthand to make note-taking quicker and more reliable. It's a skill that has weathered being banned by a Roman emperor and associations with witchcraft, ...