Course details

This course aims to provide the successful graduates with the knowledge, skills and competence to work in the sports and leisure industry in careers such as personal training, group fitness instructing, pool lifeguard and sports massage therapy.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

  • QQI Level 5 - Sports, Recreation and Exercise award or
  • Equivalent qualification in Sports, Recreation and Exercise and
  • Recommendations and
  • Medically certified evidence of fitness to participate

PRINCIPAL AREA OF STUDY

  • Sports Industry Practice
  • Exercise and Fitness
  • Sports Nutrition
  • Health Promotion
  • On Site Massage
  • Deep Water Pool Lifeguarding
  • Customer Service
  • Personal and Professional Development

ACCREDITATION

  • QQI Level 6 Sports, Recreation and Excercise award,
  • ITEC Certificate In Sports Massage Therapy
  • NCEF Certificate in Exercise & Health Fitness
  • IWS
  • Lifeguarding

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES/PROGRESSION

Upon successful completion of this one year course graduates are eligible to seek employment in the sports and leisure industry in a range of facilities in both the public and private sectors. These include gyms, health clubs, leisure centres, hotels and swimming pools.

Updated on 08 November, 2015

About Colaiste Ide College of Further Education

A word of theylcome to Colaiste Ide College of Further Education It is always a difficult decision to know what area of study one wishes to pursue after completing one's full-time education. It is even more difficult, if having left full-time education many years ago to make that decision to return again and to take up where one left off. Coming up to the Leaving Certificate they are presented with so much choice and pressure to make a correct lifetime choice that it is difficult, if not impossible, to know what is the correct option to chose. Post Leaving Certificate ctheirses have been developed with a view to providing students with options to study in their areas of interest and to either pursue those interests in Higher Education or to move directly to the workplace. They also provide mature students with a route that enables them to avail of a second chance education system that allows for the acquiring of new skills and re-acquaintance with skills acquired at an earlier stage in life.
The system of assessment used by the FETAC Accreditation system enables students to be assessed on a continual basis rather than solely on an end of year examination which can give a more accurate reflection of a student's work and results. Colaiste Ide has been providing ctheirses at this level since the mid 1970's and has developed a reputation for delivering effective and relevant career related ctheirses. Over the years, students have achieved successfully achieved what they have come to the college to study and have moved on directly into employment or on to Higher Education Institutions.
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