Ways to get involved now
So by now you’ve read all about the Diploma in Sport and Active Leisure and you want to get involved.
There are a number of ways to do this, with various levels of commitment:
- Mentor groups of students
- Create real work environments at schools and colleges
- Involvement in delivery and assessment
- Work placements
- Work experience
- Work shadowing
- Visits to your premises or hands-on experience in the workplace under supervision
- Through you or your staff visiting a school or college for career or industry days, to give talks or to run an enterprise or problem-solving challenge
- Through providing resources for workshops or an enterprise challenge
- Through offering teacher placements in your company.
“If the new Diploma in Sport and Active Leisure achieves its aim of encouraging more young people into the industry who are well qualified and enthusiastic, I support it wholeheartedly.”
Richard Millard, Operations Director, D C Leisure Management
Work placement will be a key feature for the Diploma in Sport and Active Leisure. Students will be required to participate in a minimum of ten days in the workplace at each Diploma level. Wherever possible, this work placement should be directly related to the sport and active leisure industry, with the focus being on developing employability skills and so could be carried out with any employer.
300,000 businesses already work with schools and colleges. This is your chance to get involved now!
