MA International Labour and Trade Union Studies
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Recruiting Now for October 2010. Welcome to the MA International Labour & Trade Union Studies (MA ILTUS). The MA completes Ruskin's new programme of degree courses for labour movement activists, building on our extensive past and current work with UK unions, and with international students from our Chevening scholarship programmes. Sharing experiences with trade unionists from varying.
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Students will normally be graduates with an honours degree, or equivalent qualifications in a relevant area of study.
Instead of a degree, you may be admitted if:
* You have relevant paid or unpaid experience including training/education courses, in organisations such as trade unions, community, voluntary or political groups.
* You have knowledge and academic skills commensurate with degree.....
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MA International Labour and Trade Union Studies
Recruiting Now for October 2010
Welcome to the MA International Labour & Trade Union Studies (MA ILTUS). The MA completes Ruskin's new programme of degree courses for labour movement activists, building on our extensive past and current work with UK unions, and with international students from our Chevening scholarship programmes.
"Sharing experiences with trade unionists from varying backgrounds, such as TU education, full time officials and comrades from overseas is something only found in an institution like Ruskin."
MA ILTUS student
RUSKIN is currently in discussions about joining the GLOBAL LABOUR UNIVERSITY
"Trade unionism needs to be global if it's going to tackle issues like trade, aid and debt; transnational corporations and migrant workers. Ruskin has always been internationalist, preparing generations of trade union officers and activists from around the world. Now we need a new generation of young men and especially women, to take up the challenge, acquire the knowledge and develop the skills appropriate to the new globalisation of work. And this programme is just what they need."
Brendan Barber, General Secretary, UK TUC on Ruskin's MA.
The context of the MA - crisis and renewal of organised labour
Labour movements worldwide are seen as being in crisis and are actively seeking ways of renewal. These issues are closely linked with globalisation and with fluidity among emergent transitional and developing states and countries. Ruskin's place in the labour movement, together with academic staff researching, writing and teaching in the field, puts it in a good position to become a centre of debate and scholarship in this project.
The Ruskin MA offers practitioners and scholars of such challenges the conceptual, analytical and critical framework for understanding and explaining labour movement change
Overall Course Aims
The MA aims to:
* Stretch student thinking beyond the 'envelope' to new and creative strategies of labour movement renewal and transformation, and their own role and identity in this.
* Debate issues such as:
o Organised labour's relationship with globalisation
o Internal union democracy and leadership,
o Inclusively in relation to diversities across gender, class, age, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, disability
o Cross national and cross cultural comparisons
o Achieving praxis - theory into practice
The MA's focus is on contemporary issues and the future of labour movements. While strongly grounded in practice, theoretical frameworks will frame and explain issues and students will extend this approach in their Part 2 work/union/current issue based Dissertation. At workshops students discuss and debate with one another, with tutors and with invited academic researchers and speakers from the labour movement. Tutors on the MA are themselves experienced researchers and publish in their fields.
Full time students may be sponsored by their own or other trade union organisations. If in the UK, these will normally provide trade union attachments (unpaid) for overseas students. Some scholarships maybe available.
Who the MA is aimed at:
* Experienced UK trade union officers and activists (paid and lay) from UK unions especially those which have and are developing international departments and who work closely with overseas partners such as PSI (Public Services International), ICFTU (International Confederation of Free TUs) and the ETUC (European Trades Union Confederation) as well as their sister unions abroad.
* Increasingly UK trade union officers and activists working in professional and white collar unions are themselves already graduates, and are seeking postgraduate academic study and qualifications in the field.
* Overseas specialists, including from EU countries, in developing and emerging economies, and eastern/central Europe.
* Activists and officers from labour movements worldwide.
NGO workers in the field, equality and human resources specialists in the field. Graduates of industrial relations, human resource management, business, economics and associated disciplines.
* Graduates of Ruskin's BA International Labour and Trade Union Studies
* A small number of scholarships may be available for overseas students. See MA CHEVENING application form.
Requirement
Students will normally be graduates with an honours degree, or equivalent qualifications in a relevant area of study. Instead of a degree, you may be admitted if: * You have relevant paid or unpaid experience including training/education courses, in organisations such as trade unions, community, voluntary or political groups. * You have knowledge and academic skills commensurate with degree level work. * You can show evidence of capacity for post-graduate study through providing a portfolio of recent written work; for example reports, policy papers, funding applications, essays, etc. * You complete an academic case study analysis exercise and background reading set by the MA to the equivalent standard of a first degree * You have qualifications in the relevant area of study and have completed the equivalent of year 1 elsewhere, you may apply for entry to Part 2 of the MA programme.
MA International Labour and Trade Union Studies