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| Customized Sports Diploma offered to Singapore Sports School students |
| 27 Jan 2010 |
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Students at the Singapore Sports School, SSP, will soon be able to take up a customized Diploma in Sports and Leisure Management.
The diploma is being offered by Republic Polytechnic, in collaboration with SSP.
The target's to have a minimum of 18 to 20 students for the first intake in 2011.
Students will be admitted based on their sporting achievements and academic results at the Sports School.
Deborah Tan, Principal of the Singapore Sports School.
"We are really responding to the need for us to consider our graduates who are in the post secondary pathway in our school, to really get into an industry, the sports and leisure industry."
The diploma prepares students for work in the sports and leisure industry in areas such as sports facilities management and programming.
Dr Michael Koh, is Director of the School of Sports, Health and Leisure at Republic Polytechnic.
"We have customized it to enable the developmental athletes in sports school to both balance academic pursuits and sporting pursuit, that is the main difference it is in the time table planning it allows them the flexibility to go for competition and meet their training requirements. "
The Diploma in Sports and Leisure Management is offered to students who have enrolled under the Sports School's 6 year through train programme.
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