Certificate of Higher Education in International Labour and Trade Union Studies

Overall Course Aims

This programme enables students to acquire the necessary knowledge, understanding skills and critical dimensions of the subject area through teaching, learning and assessment as a basis for:

  • Personal academic and professional development
  • Practical and vocational skills development for the benefit of their organisations
  • The development of self confidence and citizenship

Students will achieve this through an integrated programme of modules which although presented on an individual basis, complement and consolidate each other.

By the end of the course students will have experienced study of labour, employment and economic issues in order to support their development of skills in analysis, methodology, research, problem solving, understanding and critical evaluation.

Experience has shown that this approach can equip students for further postgraduate as well as undergraduate studies and/or for their professional development in management, trade unions, government departments and international labour organisations.

One of our recent Ugandan students, for example, went on directly to take an Industrial Relations MA at Warwick, became an MP in Uganda and now works for the ILO in Africa.