How can MILA add value, as a coordinating and enabling charity, to the media and information literacy (MIL) environment in the UK? This was the broad question considered at a stakeholder event organised by MILA at City St George’s, University of London, on 16 January 2025. The purpose of the gathering was to explore the […]
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On 21 November, MILA ran a successful webinar on the theme of ‘Building a national alliance for media and information literacy’. This postponed event was originally scheduled to take place a few weeks earlier as part of UNESCO’s Global MIL Week. Following an introduction by a panel of MILA’s trustees, the webinar provided an opportunity
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MILA has responded to the call for evidence for the UK Government’s Curriculum and Assessment Review relating to schools in England. Follow the link below to read the pdf version of our response. MILA submission to curriculum review The review, initiated in July 2024, is expected to produce its final recommendations in the autumn of
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UK government ministers have indicated clearly that they wish to see a place for media literacy education in schools. The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee is running an inquiry into the future of news; a public hearing of this on 15 October considered, among a range of issues, the government’s approach to media
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by Stéphane Goldstein This article was originally published in the September 2024 issue of Information Professional. Reproduced here with permission. “Schools to wage war on ‘putrid’ fake news”: the recent headline in The Sunday Telegraph draws from an interview with the new Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson. Her views may herald the start of a
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In April 2024, Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, set out for consultation its draft Media Literacy Strategy. The 2023 Online Safety Act clarified and added specificity to Ofcom’s media literacy responsibilities – including a requirement to set out a three year strategy by the end of 2024. The consultation, which is now closed, was an
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Between November 2022 and April 2023, a team of researchers at the LSE conducted a stakeholder-centric consultation on the challenges facing the media literacy sector in the UK. Commissioned by the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology […]
‘Information is power’ is a claim we often hear, almost as often as the term ‘information literacy’, as one of the many ringing phrases of today’s information age and knowledge society.
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MILA has published a report on how information literacy (IL) impacts on society. A year ago, MILA commissioned a project, funded by CILIP and the CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG), to produce a comprehensive review […]
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The UK’s Online Safety Bill has, at long last, completed its tortuous passage through Parliament. It now awaits Royal Assent before becoming law, in all likelihood before the end of the year. The Bill’s essential provisions on the prevention of online harms and on the duties imposed on social media…
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