Dear list members
Please find the below information on a new master course at the University
of Bath, MSc International Social Policy, of which primary focus is on East
Asia and Europe. If you have further inquiry, please contact Professor
Graham Room ([log in to unmask]) or if you want to receive a hard copy
brochure, please contact [log in to unmask]
*full information*
(web version) http://www.bath.ac.uk/soc-pol/postgraduate/misp.htm
(pdf version)
http://www.bath.ac.uk/soc-pol/postgraduate/Documents/MISP%20Docs/MISP%20brochure%20final.pdf
Please forward this information to your students and friends who might be
interested in.
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Overview and aims
The programme is concerned with social policies in market economies. It
gives central attention to the links between social policy and economic
development, including the rise of knowledge-based economies and the new
risks of insecurity with which globalisation is associated.
The programme will have three main themes:
- Patterns of social policy development in different countries and world
regions, in response to globalisation and socio-economic change: for
example, the similarities and contrasts between Europe and East Asia
- The global interactions among national social policy strategies: for
example, the global competition for scarce social and health service
personnel;
The emerging forms of global social policy-making through the major
international organisations: for example, the UN, the WHO and the ILO
- The main aim of the programme is not therefore to provide students with a
comprehensive education in the social policy of any one region. It is,
rather, to play the experience of these different regions against the
common transformations of globalisation and to explore the consequences for
these regions of global social policy-making.
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