Bulletin

Issue: April 2004

News

La Trobe University partnership with Collingwood Football Club

La Trobe University's Institute of Vocational Education and Training has signed a partnership agreement with the Collingwood Football Club that will enable the Club's players to undertake a Diploma of Sport and Recreation Management from the Institute.

The Institute is a leading provider of sport, recreation, hospitality/tourism and snowsports studies. All its courses are state-accredited and nationally recognised. The Institute conducts courses at the University's Melbourne (Bundoora) and Mt Buller campuses and offshore in Malaysia and Singapore.

The course for Collingwood players will be conducted in a flexible mode of delivery to suit the players' football duties over two years. The initial Certificate I, II and III subjects will be practical and skills-based. The Diploma level of the program will cover management of facilities and sporting programs. The course is derived from the Diploma in Outdoor Recreation program that has been delivered at the University's Mt Buller campus for the past seven years. Staff from the Mt Buller and Melbourne (Bundoora) campuses will be involved in delivering the program.

There have been other connections between La Trobe University and AFL teams. Early last year, La Trobe formed an alliance with Essendon Football Club to provide a program of professional development courses which included two very successful two-day leadership seminars for industry.

High-profile senior government and industry leaders who took part included Coles Myer CEO, Mr John Fletcher, and the Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Mr Graeme Samuel. The seminars will be repeated later this year.

In 2002, La Trobe University researcher, Ms Mandy Ruddock, was involved with the Western Bulldogs club in a project to ascertain the psychological, emotional and behavioural effects on players when injury adversely affects their form or forces them out of the team.

Former leading umpire, La Trobe Associate Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Science Technology and Engineering, Dr Ian Robinson, was recently also appointed as the AFL's first video reports officer.

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