leeds met and the fa score a winning goal in coaching excellence

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January 2013For immediate release

Leeds Met and The FA score a winning goal in coaching excellence

The English Football Association (The FA) has commissioned Leeds

Metropolitan University to deliver a Sport Coaching Postgraduate Certificate

(PG Cert) course for 12 members of their staff.

The part-time course, which will run up until June 2013, is being carried out at

St. Georges Park - the home of The FAs new National Football Centre for

players, coaches and coach educators. It is also the training base for the 24

England teams.

Andy Abraham, Principal Lecturer in Sport Coaching at Leeds Metropolitan

and Programme Leader of the postgraduate certificate, said: This is a

fantastic opportunity for the University to collaborate with the FA the very

heart of English football. The participants are all very experienced coaches.

They have been employed by the FA to work as Youth Coach Educators in

partnership with professional club academies to develop their youth coaches.

The PG Cert is intended to support their transition from excellent coaches to

excellent coach educators.

We are proud to be delivering the programme which will formalise and add to

the participants already considerable skills and knowledge. Ultimately, the

course will improve their capacity to make professional judgments relating to

the development of more effective youth football coaches.

The PG Cert is an integrated package of classroom and work based learning.


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Head of Player Development and Research for The FA, Andy Cale, added:

The Football Association is fully committed to developing coaches and coach

educators at all levels. This course is part of the drive to support Coaching as

a Profession and to keep FA staff at the forefront of academic developments

in sports coaching. This innovative course helps our staff understand the

latest theories of coach education and development and translate them into

cutting edge practical support for the coaches in the professional clubs.

Students will receive further support through Leeds Mets online virtual

learning system where all individual modules have their own page that

students are automatically allocated to as a result as registering on that

module.

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For further details please contact Julia Williams in the Communications team

at Leeds Met on 0113 812 5978 or [email protected]

Notes for editors:

Leeds Metropolitan University has more than 27,000 students and

around 3,000 staff.

The Vice Chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University is Professor

Susan Price and the Chair of the Board is Lord Woolmer of Leeds.

Leeds Metropolitans four faculties are: Arts, Environment and

Technology, Business & Law, Health and Social Sciences, and

Carnegie.

Leeds Metropolitans heritage can be traced back to the founding of the

Mechanics Institute in Leeds in 1824.

The Destination of Leavers in Higher Education (DLHE) showed that

the proportion of Leeds Metropolitan 2010/11 graduates in work, further

study or both six months after leaving university was 91.87%.
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Libraries and Learning Innovation at Leeds Metropolitan was awarded

the CSE standard for the tenth year running in 2012.

In 2012, Leeds Metropolitan was awarded a First in the People &

Planet Green League, a league table of environmentally friendlyuniversities, for the sixth consecutive year.

leeds met and the fa score a winning goal in coaching excellence

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