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23 Jun 2009 16:20:19
British students joined with their counterparts from Estonia and Finland for an educational trip south of the river.
The PDYJ (Professional Doctorate in Youth Justice), run by the University of Bedfordshire, is a three-year programme for senior practitioners and managers in youth justice and allied fields.
This takes the form of an autumn, winter and summer school each year interspersed with a couple of two-day seminars.
The international summer school recently went to St Giles Church in Walworth Road, Southwark.
This is where Robust Training has an innovative training scheme for gang-involved youngsters among others, run by Michael Gross who is now an award-winning poet.
It was the shooting of his mother, Cherry, by police officers attempting to arrest him on firearms charges that triggered the second Brixton riot in 1985.
For the past three years, the PDYJ has been a partner in a three-nation postgraduate programme in which students from the University, HUMAK University of Applied Sciences in Finland and Tartu University from Estonia meet for ten days.
They attend lectures and seminars and visit innovative programmes working with young people at risk or involved in youth crime.
Robust Training run a training programme with hard-to-reach young people, many of whom are involved in or on the fringes of crime and anti-social behaviour.
Most of the University of Bedfordshire’s students work within the youth justice field, as do many of the Estonians and Finnish, although others are youth and community workers involved in the prevention of social exclusion.
The success of the PDYJ course has given rise to a new three-year part-time degree course.
A Professional Doctorate in Leadership of Children and Young People’s Services (PDLCYPS) starts in October at the University’s Luton campus.
It aims to equip senior practitioners and managers in youth justice and allied fields with the knowledge base and theoretical grounding in social, childcare, youth and criminal justice policy and practice and research methods to enable them to make an original contribution to their agency and their professional field at the highest level.
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