Introduction

Preparing for a career as a professional sports coach?  This programme prepares you to work in a performance or participation role, in schools, governing bodies of sport, professional sports clubs, or commercial sport and activity settings.  You will benefit from a teaching team that combines active coaching, coach education, coach employment and coach development experience.
 

Programme Features

Good mix of teaching staff
You will learn from a teaching team that combines active coaching with coach education, employment and development experience.

Essential skills for employment
You will learn the behaviours expected and needed for working in schools, sport governing bodies, and professional or commercial sport and physical activity settings.

Career prospects
This programme prepares you a career in both a performance or participation role in the industry, including professional sport clubs, commercial sport providers, sport governing body organisations, physical education roles in schools, commercial organisations, delivering physical literacy or sport-specific programmes, physical activity and strength & conditioning roles in universities, colleges or sport and leisure centres, management of coaching teams or programmes.
 

Modules

Enterprise in Sport Coaching

This module aims to provide you with an innovative learning environment where you will be able to develop business planning skills within a sports coaching context. You will explore key criteria for successful team-working and leadership in addition to key business management principles and practice. The module will help you to consider and develop your business and enterprise capabilities through the establishment of a small business.

Coaching Children and Young People

This module considers how young people develop physically, mentally and emotionally, and how they learn and develop skills. It provides specific examples to demonstrate how coaches can adapt training, practice and programmes to meet the needs of the young person / performer whilst also beginning to consider the process of identifying and developing elite performers from a young age.

Talent Development

The aim of this module is to advance your knowledge of talent development and expertise acquisition in the sport domain. The module will focus on contemporary models of talent development and the methods used to develop sporting expertise, through exploring and critiquing current talent development systems, where barriers and challenges will be identified. The module will also provide you with insights into coaching approaches and methods used by coaches to develop expert performers.

International Sport Coaching 

This module will encourage the utilisation of comparative techniques to critically scrutinise sport coaching systems within your domestic and other countries. Considering how cultural, social, historical and political factors impact sport coaching policy and influenced the delivery and development of sport coaching internationally. The module will examine and critique sport coaching as an intervention tool within sports coaching systems, assessing the impact of the coaching system on practising coaches.

Project in Sport

This module aims to develop your knowledge and skills of designing, implementing and evaluating a research project in a subject area related to sport and physical activity. Building on existing knowledge and employability skills developed on your programme, the module will support the development of a research question, which will include carrying out a research project under ethically safe conditions.

Assessment

Coursework, presentations and project(s).

QF Level

QF Level : Level 5 QR Registration No. : 15/002711/L5  Validity Period : 01/09/2015 - 31/08/2025

Importance of choosing a non-local top-up with QF Level 5 Employment Degree qualifications pitched at QF Level 5 are formally recognised by the HKSAR Government for employment purposes within the Civil Service for graduate posts. Further Studies Having been recognised at QF Level 5, this top-up degree programme meets the standard of locally-accredited bachelor's degree programmes. Upon graduation, students can pursue their further studies at Master’s degree level in Hong Kong or overseas. Financial Assistance and Scholarships Various HKSAR Government financial assistance schemes and scholarships are only made available to eligible students enrolled into programmes with QF recognition.

Entry Requirements

• Holders of VTC Higher Diploma in Sports Coaching

OR

• Holders of relevant Higher Diploma, or Associate Degree, or equivalent qualifications, or experience (in terms of relevant credits and competency) will also be considered. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to attend an interview.
   

English Proficiency Requirements

• Applicants holding post-secondary qualifications (e.g. Higher Diploma, Associate Degree) taught and assessed in English from recognised institutions;

OR

• At least an overall IELTS score of 6.0, or equivalent.

Fees

• Application Fee : HK$200 (No application fee before the deadline!)
• Registration Fee : HK$3,500
• Tuition Fee : HK$74,840 by 2 instalments

Scholarships

A variety of attractive scholarships are available to current and graduating SHAPE students.

		“The Sport Coaching programme has deepened the knowledge I learnt from my higher diploma studies. I'm particularly impressed by the module "Coaching Children and Young People"; it helped me to pursue my goal as a children's sports coach. The classes by SHAPE and the UK lecturers were inspiring.” Lam Ka On John BSc (Hons) Sport Coaching HKSAR Government Outstanding Performance Scholarship 2022-23
		“This Sport Coaching programme was recommended by my Higher Diploma lecturer. Learning how to teach students at different age levels and nature them to be athletes has been very inspiring. SHAPE speakers were very resourceful and we were given a lot of helpful articles to help us with our assignments. ” Yu Tsz Ching Larissa BSc (Hons) Sport Coaching HKSAR Government Outstanding Performance Scholarship 2022-23

Financial Aids 

 The following HKSAR Government financial assistance schemes are available to eligible students who pursue this programme at SHAPE:

Financial Assistance Schemes		Amount (HK$)
	Non-means-tested Subsidy Scheme (NMTSS)	Up to $34,390 per year  [AY2024/25]
	Financial Assistance Scheme for Post-secondary Students (FASP)	Up to $91,040 (Tuition fee grant) Up to $8,810 (Academic expenses grant) Up to 57,340 (Living expenses loan) [AY2023/24]
	Non-means-tested Loan Scheme for Post-secondary Students (NLSPS)	Up to the annual tuition fees payable in the academic year

For details including eligibility and subsidy amount, please refer to the hyperlink of each scheme.

Career Prospects

This programme prepares you a career in both a performance or participation role in the industry, including professional sport clubs, commercial sport providers, sport governing body organisations, physical education roles in schools, commercial organisations, delivering physical literacy or sport-specific programmes, physical activity and strength & conditioning roles in universities, colleges or sport and leisure centres, management of coaching teams or programmes.

Further Studies

Having been recognised at QF Level 5, this top-up degree programme meets the standard of locally-accredited bachelor's degree programmes. Upon graduation, students can pursue their further studies at Master’s degree level in Hong Kong or overseas.

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