Education and information leaders call for media and information literacy to be made mandatory in schools A coalition of information and education organizations has issued an urgent call for media…
In March, the House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee launched an inquiry into media literacy. Drawing from Ofcom findings that only 45% of UK adults are confident they can…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
‘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…