Sports Coaching and Development BA (Hons)

This degrees clear focus on developing your coaching skills will transform your approach and practice ensuring you are well placed to take on a key role in initiatives such as Uniting the Movement Sport England's 10-year plan to transform lives and communities through sport and physical activity.

Throughout the course you build your skills working on real-life sports-development projects; learning from industry-specific guest speakers; and gaining work experience through our partnerships with organisations including Luton Town FC Bedford Blues Foundation and Active Luton as well as schools and colleges.

You also develop your interpersonal skills and explore challenging aspects of coaching such as tackling social inequalities connecting with communities and creating positive sporting experiences for all with the long-term aim of encouraging lifelong involvement in physical activity.

Why choose this course?

• You are taught by a highly experienced team at a University with a legacy of delivering sport and physical education that goes back over 100 years
• Our academic team draw on their own work experience with organisations such as The Football Association and Sport England to give you the knowledge and skills you need to follow a career in sports coaching
• The team has completed research and published widely in the fields of sports sociology; sports coaching and development; physical education; sport management; and physical activity leadership all of which feeds back into your learning
• We are a higher education partner of the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) so the course aligns with professional standards relevant to sports coaching and development

To apply for a place on an undergraduate course (BA/BSc) you need to have completed your high school education (12 years) and have a pass equivalent to two UK A level passes and have the required English language qualification.

When you submit an application form you must remember to include photocopies of the following supporting documents. We do not need to see your original qualifications and certificates.

• A completed application form signed by you (an electronic signature is fine)
• Copies of your official academic qualifications and certificates including proof of your level of English Language (where relevant)
• A one-page personal statement. This should tell us why you want to study your chosen course.
• A copy of your current valid passport details
• Please submit copies of any UK Visa that you have held and any documentation relating to previous visa refusals from any country