Professional Practice for Sport and Recreation Higher Diploma Programmes Students 2024
11 Sep 2024
Students of the Higher Diploma in Sport and Recreation Management (HDSRM) as well as Higher Diploma in Sport Coaching and Sport Performance (HDSCSP) are offered a mandatory placement opportunity under the Professional Practice Programme during the summer between the first and second year of their studies. This year, the College has liaised with 140 organisations, offering placements for about 280 students. These placements include private membership clubs, residential clubhouses, campsites, NGOs, national sport associations, fitness centres, different types of sport academies, event organisers, sport therapy clinics, etc., covering job areas in facilities management and operations, event organising, sport coaching, health and sport performance maintenance, etc.
Kai Shing Management Services Limited has offered placement positions in club management and facilities operations to sport students for more than ten years, in which placement students at Kai Shing are eligible to compete for the KS100 Best Intern Award. Placement students from our College in previous years had won the award. This year, Ms. Chelsea Cheng, Year 1 HDSCSP student, who was assigned to work at The YOHO Hub in the summer by Kai Shing won the award with the prize of HKD$5,000 with her excellent performance. Congratulations to Chelsea!