Football Business Management and Coaching FdSc

Teaching

Students will be taught by a teaching team whose expertise and knowledge are closely matched to the content of the modules on the course. The team includes Masters degree educated staff that have experience at the Higher Education level. Most of which are former University of Worcester students.

most of which studied here at Worcester. The team have relevant industry experience and updating of professional qualifications is completed via continuous staff development. 

Contact time

In a typical week you will have around 14 contact hours of teaching.

Typically class contact time will be structured around:

• 7 x hours of interactive workshops/lectures
• 7 x hours of seminars /applied learning/practical (Work based Learning, lab work, coaching activities).
• Optional Football training of 4.5 hours per week plus the possibility of being involved in fixtures.

Independent self-study

In addition to the contact time, students are expected to undertake around 20-24 hours of personal self-study per week and 4 hours of placement experience.  Typically, this will involve:

• Completing specific module directed/applied study tasks;
• Online activities;
• Topic reading and research;
• Work Based learning preparation;
• Group projects;
• Preparing for assignments and learning experiences;
• Reflection and evaluation;
• Revision of class notes and engaging with blackboard

Independent learning is supported by a range of excellent learning facilities. At the Centre of Sporting Excellence students will have access to watching a professional football club train and extending knowledge of coaching styles that are implemented and the use of performance analysis.

Teaching staff

You will be taught by a teaching team whose expertise and knowledge are closely matched to the content of the modules on the course. The team includes experienced lecturers, staff that have extensive coaching, business, management and industry experience.

Teaching is informed by the research and consultancy, and the majority of course lecturers have a higher education teaching qualification or are Fellows of the Higher Education Academy. You can learn more about the staff by visiting our staff profiles.

Assessment

The course provides opportunities to test understanding and learning informally through the completion of practice or ‘formative’ assignments.  Each module has one or more formal or ‘summative’ assessment which is graded and counts towards the overall module grade.  

Assessment methods will include a range of formative assessment methods in the build up to summative assessments to provide on-going feedback and allow lecturers to adjust teaching methods to help students improve their learning. Some examples of formative assessment will be: Impromptu quizzes or anonymous voting, short comparative assessments to see how students are performing against their peers, One-minute papers on a specific subject matter, Lesson exit tickets to summarise what students have learnt, and silent classroom polls.

The precise assessment requirements for an individual student in an academic year will vary according to the mandatory modules taken. A typical formal summative assessment pattern for each year of the course is:

Year 1 (Level 4)

• 1 x Case study report
• 4 x Written essay/report
• 3 x Individual or group presentations
• 1 x Practical
• 1 x Coaching programme
• 2 x Portfolio
• 1 x Reflective journal

Year 2 (Level 5)

• 1 x Practical
• 4 x Individual or group presentations
• 3 x Written essay/report
• 1 x Training programme
• 1 x Skills profile
• 2 x Portfolio

Feedback

You will receive feedback on practice assessments and on formal assessments undertaken by coursework. Feedback on examination performance is available upon request from the module leader. Feedback is intended to support learning and you are encouraged to discuss it with personal academic tutors and module tutors as appropriate.

We aim to provide you with feedback on formal course work assessments within 20 working days of hand-in.

Programme specification

For comprehensive details on the aims and intended learning outcomes of the course, and the means by which these are achieved through learning, teaching and assessment, please download the latest programme specification document.