Hi and welcome to Flinders University, I'm Shane Pill I'm an Associate
Professor in Physical Education and Sport.
I was inspired to get into education because there are good graduate outcomes
and educator skill sets are valued not just in education, but in other
careers, businesses so we often think of teachers working in schools
but teachers work in a lot of professions. You will get a fabulous
degree at Flinders University that is locally, nationally and
internationally recognised for its quality. One of the best things
about studying at Flinders is our industry connections.
Industry look to us for projects, they look to our students to value add to the
work that they're doing. In fact our students tell us one of the
remarkable things is how many opportunities
are put in front of them to work with schools, community groups,
sporting organisations to bring their study to life beyond their coursework,
in order to evaluate to their degree. The Bachelor of Sport, Health and Physical
Activity provides preparation for work in sport, physical activity and health
promotion in South Australia, nationally and
internationally. There are job opportunities in sports
coaching, player management, player welfare, sport marketing
sport for development and peace, sport adventure tourism
and one of the really exciting initiatives we've had in the last couple
of years is bringing outdoor education into the
Bachelor of Sport, Health and Physical Activity.
That's proved an extremely popular undertaking,
we have almost as many students now doing the outdoor education pathway
as the other opportunities that are available in business, disability studies,
nutrition and tourism that you combine your studies with sport with.
We have combined degrees in sport and psychology,
sport and marketing, sport and communication, so while you can do a
standalone Bachelor of Sport, Health and Physical Activity
you can also do a combined degree where you can get more study in that second
area if that second area is something that
you want to pursue with more interest and has a stronger pathway at the end of
your degree. The Bachelor of Sport, Health and
Physical Activity also provides a pathway to the Master of Teaching
so you can become a health and physical education teacher with a second subject
area to teach to year 12. Just like an education degree has
placements in order to prepare people to work in industry,
the Bachelor of Sport, Health and Physical Activity also provides
placement opportunities but those placement opportunities
are industry projects. That means those individuals have to put their skill sets
to work for the benefit of the industry where they're placed in. We have students
who have done industry projects locally but
importantly the work of the Bachelor of Sport, Health and Physical Activity
has impacted globally. We've had students working in New Delhi,
Mumbai, Kolkata providing school sport development programs, we've had
students work with Arsenal in the UK in the community
soccer program, which means that they're now eligible to
work in any of those programs anywhere in the world.
So the opportunities that are available through the Bachelor of Sport, Health and
Physical Activity are not limited to getting experiences
in industries in South Australia, it literally is the world is your
opportunity if you do the Bachelor of Sport, Health
and Physical Activity. For those that are interested in a
academic career or a research pathway, there's also the
possibility of doing an honours degree following the Bachelor of Sport, Health
and Physical Activity. So if you have a passion for working
with people, you have a passion for sport, you have a passion for seeing people
grow and develop, become better people, better players, creating
better communities as a consequence, than the Bachelor of Sport, Health and
Physical Activity is for you. Some of our graduates have gone on to
work with national sports clubs, including Australian Football League
clubs, they've worked as state league sport development coaches,
we have someone who's working as a personal trainer in the fire department,
people have worked as school sports coordinators, association sports
coordinators, so the range of jobs that are available
for individuals following the Bachelor of Sport, Health
and Physical Activity are quite extensive because sport
and recreation are one of the biggest providers of jobs in South Australia.
I'll now talk about the Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Health Science,
which is the pathway to becoming a health and physical education teacher
at Flinders University. As a physical education teacher you get to work in a
lot of sports situations, you coach school sports teams because you've got
those skills you find yourself being asked to coach
community teams. Coaching is developing people,
developing better people, to be better players, creates better communities.
So one of the things that I enjoy most about coaching
is the way that we are developing people and the relationships that we develop
through coaching enabling people to be the best version
of themselves. The Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of
Health Science will enable you to be qualified to work in schools in South
Australia, nationally and internationally. You'll
also be able to work as an education officer in programs such as
the Zoo, the Botanic Gardens, we have people that have left the degree and
have worked in industry such as education offices for business so while
many people will think that an education degree is a pathway to being a teacher,
it's a pathway to working as an educator and many industries now
value an education degree because of the skills that are taught in working with
people, managing people, developing curriculum
and from that curriculum, implementing meaningful experiences so
that people can learn that curriculum in a viable way.
We have people who have graduated from this degree not only working in South
Australia but working in schools all over the
world and many of our graduates now have senior positions in education
departments and professional associations. We have
high level student satisfaction with this degree.
Also through this degree students go on and do an Honours if they have a
research pathway, they have a particular aspect of
interest that they've developed through their study,
the Honours enables them to focus on that for 12 months,
do a research project in that and publish that research at the end so that
it becomes part of the knowledge of the profession
that people anywhere in the world can take advantage of. So bringing my
talk to a conclusion, you'll have more opportunity than you
have time to take advantage of when you come to Flinders University and
do a degree in sport or education. Thank you for visiting
Flinders University, I look forward to welcoming you on campus soon.