TUC Education courses from January 2022

I have just finished a year long TUC (virtual) employment law diploma taught by The College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (hopefully I have passed) which I thoroughly enjoyed and learnt such a lot. If you are interested in union learning check out below :- 

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TUC Diploma in Contemporary Trade Unionism

I am currently near the end of an excellent TUC Diploma course on Employment Law so will need a rest from studying in January but maybe another time...

"We thought you might be interested in the attached course which will run over a year  aimed at experienced union reps and employees of affiliate unions.

Ideal as Professional Development and for activists wanting to develop their knowledge or wishing to progress to Higher Education.

All applicants will be expected to have already completed a number of union training courses. On completion of the course, successful candidates will receive the TUC Level 2 Diploma in Contemporary Trade Unionism. The course will be delivered in the classroom or online using Moodle and Microsoft Teams, with a live lesson between each week between 6pm and 9pm. The course will run for 36 weeks (with breaks during the school holidays).

For information more information on how to apply please email tued@conel.ac.uk. Feel free to distribute via your networks.

Delivered by: College of Haringey Enfield and North East London,
London N15
Term Dates: 18th Jan 2022-16th Dec 2022
11th Jan – 8th Feb 2022
H/T Tuesday 15th Feb 2022
22nd Feb – 29th Mar 2022
Easter break
26th Apr – 24th May 2022
H/T 1 st June
7th June - 19th July 2022
Summer break
6th Sept – 18th oct 2022
H/T 25th oct
8th Nov – 13th Dec 2022
Fees: Free
How to apply: Online at https://www.tuc.org.uk/TUCcourses"

TUC Diploma in Employment Law: Day 1

On Friday I started a 36 week "virtual" part time Level 2 course on Employment law arranged by the TUC and taught by tutors from CONEL college. 

It is mostly "self directed" study with monthly "face to face" group meetings and some 121 tutoring.  There is an expectation that you will have to spend an average of 6 hours per week to complete the course. It uses an impressive brand new TUC learning website. 

 There are 19 members on our course from different unions (but many UNISON) with a range of different experience including 2 full time union officials. 

On our first day there was an introduction to the course and employment law.  We had two group activities to complete, first relating to workers' rights and the "Gig" economy then debating different prospectives on employment law. 

As well as course work there will also be other activities such as "virtual" visits to live Employment Tribunals and guest presentations. Our first presentation will be by the well known Labour rights Barrister John Hendy QC. 

I really enjoyed our first day. Not looking forward that much to essays and assignments. Next week is "self directed" course work on "Trade Unions and employment law history". I am looking forward to this  since I always remember in a previous TUC course being shocked that our current UK employment laws are still influenced by the 19th century "Master and Servant Acts". 

If this had been a "normal" face to face TUC training event on a Friday, we would have gone for a quick drink afterwards. I did miss that.