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Chevening Scholarships - For Trade Unionists and Labour Activists from around the world
2010-03-12, Issue 473
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* One year Certificate/Diploma of Higher Education/ BA degree.
* One year MA
* One term full time course
Ruskin has a long association with educating trade union men and women. So we are very pleased to have developed the Chevening Scholarship programme for union activists from around the developing world. Two types of scholarship are available to study on Ruskin’s new International Labour and Trade Union Studies programmes.
* One year Certificate/Diploma of Higher Education/ BA degree.
* One year MA in International Labour and Trade Union Studies. These are full time, residential courses, October to July.
* One term full time course: Comparative Labour Studies and Law, residential study at Ruskin in the summer term, April to July.
Criteria for both Chevening Scholarships are:
* A record of active participation in the trade union movement
* Capacity to benefit from studying at Ruskin College at the appropriate level
* The expectation that scholars will return to their home country in order to play a larger role there in their union movement or the community
* Fluency in written and spoken English
* Age limit: 45
In keeping with Ruskin’s equal opportunities policy, we are keen to ensure a good balance between men and women and take students from a diversity of ethnic groups.
While at Ruskin, scholars will be required to keep in touch with their sponsoring UK union, visiting the union, attending/speaking at conferences, preparing short reports/articles for union journals etc. They will make presentations about economic, social, political and industrial relations in their country, contribute to debates about labour movements worldwide, and also write a short final report for Ruskin on their Chevening Scholarship experience.
The one year programmes are aimed at mid-career union officials who can spare a year away from their work. They are full time courses, and scholarship students join with other Ruskin students at the College in Oxford.
* Certificate / Diploma of Higher Education
Students take two modules each term. Students will study International Labour and Trade Union Studies, through modules on Labour Relations, Theory and Practice of Negotiation, Comparative Labour Relations, Labour Law, Anti-Discrimination law. On the undergraduate programme each module is worth 20 CATS (Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme) points. On successful completion of each level the student will have gained 120 CATS points.
* MA
Full time 12-month course is at post graduate level. Part 1, the taught course has 3 modules: 1. International labour relations and the globalisation of labour, 2: Crisis and renewal: labour movement organisational democracy, leadership and change, 3: engage research; theory into practice, philosophy, methodology and research methods. Part 2: Dissertation, 15-20,000 words.
The UK Open University Validation Services accredits the programme to ensure it meets the required academic standards.
The one term programme of study Comparative Labour Studies, is also part of the International Labour and Trade Union Studies programme.
Chevening Scholarship Application Form: One Term / One Year At Ruskin
Chevening Scholarship Application Form: MA International Labour and Trade Union Studies
Contacts
MA Academic Coordinator: Sue Ledwith Tel: 00 44 +1865 517806.
email: sledwith@ruskin.ac.uk
BA Administrator: Liz Mathews Tel: 00 44 +186 517820.
Email: lmathews@ruskin.ac.uk
Fax No: 01856 554372.
Please do contact either of the above for further information. Liz and Sue have both studied and written about women's issues in unions and Sue runs six-monthly Round Table for trade union activists. She researches and publishes in the field and has also worked on union education programmes in the UK and abroad.