OBSERVATIONS OF INDUSTRY SUPERVISION OF VET AND UNIVERSITY STUDENT PRACTICUMS IN FITNESS, EXERCISE SCIENCE AND SPORT SCIENCE: PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS RELEVANT TO THOSE PROVIDING STUDENT MENTORSHIP

Year 2017, Volume: 7 , 235 - 240, 08.09.2017

İan Timothy Heazlewood Tom Walsh Joe Walsh Daniella Kai Gu Mike Climtein

Abstract

More than 30 of
the 43 universities in Australia offer an exercise science and/or sport science
programs.  In the Vocational Education
and Training (VET) sector, more than 160 Registered Training Organisations
offer Australian Government approved fitness training courses.   The paper is a self-reflective exercise
based upon mentoring placement students from multiple registered course
providers from the VET sector fitness strand. 
Combined with reflection on general population hours for placement
students from six Sydney city and one regional New South Wales based
universities this represented evaluation of more than 200 students and more
than 20,000 placement supervision hours. 
This observation was based upon student placements conducted over the
previous seven years, though a significant proportion of the students
surveilled were from the previous 36 months. 
A number of recommendations were developed that may be relevant not just
for health, fitness and exercise and sport science courses, but also may be
relevant to industry mentorship across a range of fields.

Keywords

Student supervision, practical placement, vocational education and training, workplace learning

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