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8 February, 2010
A 1 March deadline looms for applicants seeking admission to ILO’s coming Global Labour University (GLU) Masters Degree programmes in Germany and India. The year-long course work is through the University of Kassel and Berlin School of Economics and Law in Germany, and Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India.
In India, course work will be categorized under “Globalisation and Labour” and will critically evaluate the social, economic, and political processes that influence labour under globalisation. In Germany, where the first semester is at Kassel and the second at Berlin, the programme is called “Labour Policies & Globalisation” and focuses on global challenges to labour, international labour rights, economics, and processes of globalisation.
The application (in six languages) can be found at the bottom of this page http://www.global-labour-university.org/ on the left hand side.
Courses are offered in English, women are strongly encouraged to participate, applicants should, as a rule, not be over age 40, and the endorsement of a trade union is a requirement for a scholarship. The scholarship is combined with a €1,500 contribution made by a trade union or other donor.
The nearly six-year-old GLU has trained trade unionists in economics and in social sciences from 49 countries in its short existence. The GLU has also developed and is initiating this year a shorter, six-month programme intended for trade union workers and others around a targeted and specific curriculum.
More on that programme, with the next application deadline coming 1 November 2010, can be found here.