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What are My Higher Education Options for a Sports Career?

If you’re in high school and looking for higher education options to start your sports career as a personal trainer, soccer or netball coach, or anything else in Australia’s thriving sports and recreation industry, then it’s the perfect time to look at what the SEDA Group has to offer.

Don’t wait to start your sports career

Rather than waiting until you have completed your high school diploma to start down your chosen career path, you can start gaining critical work experience and training through your Year 11 and Year 12 studies. This puts you years ahead of the rest of the pack while allowing you to use your passion for sports to achieve your high school certification.

Start building your career network

An important part of your education with the SEDA Group is focussed on helping you develop a functional professional network to support your chosen career path. To achieve this, our courses are designed and led by industry specialists – accomplished professionals who are placed at significant positions within the sports industry. This includes high-performance coaches and athletes, managers and facilitators, and more. By building these relationships, SEDA Group students are uniquely placed to enter the job market and succeed in finding positions that are the perfect fit.

Build real-world skills that the job market is looking for

Our higher education program focuses on an applied, interest-based curriculum where knowledge-based classroom learning is balanced with applied learning experiences. Simply put, we teach you the skills that are in demand in the sports and recreation industry, and then train you through real-world projects where you put these skills into action. It’s not only a great way to teach skills that are directly aligned to an industry, it’s also a functional and fun way to build self-confidence. At your job interviews, you’ll not only know how to do something in theory, you’ll know how to do it in practice thanks to our hands-on approach.

Find your niche in the sports and recreation industry

If you have a passion for sports but are unsure of how to turn this into a sports career, then our higher education program can help. We’ve designed it to be comprehensive as well as aligned with the focus of the industry, so you get a well-rounded education. We work with major sports like AFL, netball, cricket, soccer, golf, swimming, and leisure activities as well as offering training programs for personal fitness professionals, first aid and CPR courses.  

As part of your course, you’ll come into contact with a wide range of roles in the industry where you’ll be trained, including coaching, project management, sports leadership, fitness training, sports nutrition, anti-doping regulations, sports psychology, sports law, marketing, and personal and professional development training.

To find out more about what the SEDA Group offers and how our accredited higher education program can help you on the path to your dream sports career, please contact us today.

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Survive Cardiac Arrest through CPR

According to studies, almost 600,000 people suffered cardiac arrest every year, and it’s sad to say it's killing these people once they have an attack. However, this number of deaths can be managed if more people took a CPR course, either as a transferrable skill or use it in a career. SEDA Group now provides CPR courses as part of their curriculum.  

According to studies, about 75% to 80% of all out-of-hospital cardiac arrest happen at home, which is the main reason why most of these cardiac arrest cases result in death. Once a person is trained or took CPR courses at the SEDA Group, this can mean the difference between life and the death for our loved ones.  

Aside from saving precious lives, taking CPR courses can also help you gain self-confidence since you'll now be prepared in the event that someone suffers from cardiac arrest, or other emergency situations. As emergency situations always need immediate actions like providing CPR to the victim while waiting for the arrival of the ambulance. CPR also decreases the risk of brain damage or death during a cardiac arrest. It is also good to note that the higher the number of people who took CPR courses, the better, as this is a transferrable skill.

During cardiac arrest, every second is considered deadly, so it is extremely important to perform CPR to an unconscious patient. If there are numbers of individuals around who know CPR, you could take turns by giving chest compressions and rescue breaths as well. You know you're on the right path with SEDA Group, since as well as providing transferrable skills, we are also committed to achieving meaningful changes that can lead to big life success for each of our students.  

At the SEDA Group, we set the bar high, because we believe and understand every industry's demands and expectations through the transferrable skills we provide. A person who takes CPR courses, and knows how to use it well, can create a safer environment for everyone, especially in the workplace. This can also be an impressive factor for employers, especially for people who are in the medical field or will further study and take nursing.  

CPR courses will not just benefit you and your family, but the entire community because this allows us to know about the proper procedure for assisting victims of heart attack patients and at the same time know about the handling well an emergency situation.

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Benefits of attaining SEDA Certificates

There’s a new credentialing player in town, and it’s giving degree programs a run for their money. In recent years, certificates have become increasingly popular, as students have begun skills learning and transferable skills, they are now concentrating more on what skills are needed in the workforce. Employers, in turn, are placing more emphasis on specialized skills than traditionally valued credentials like degrees. For higher ed institutions, certificates offer more than new revenue streams. They offer the chance to meet specific market needs and become leaders in the industry. In SEDA group, we connect with leading sport, recreation and community organisations in Australia, giving students unique opportunities and experiences that meet the needs of the modern day workplace.

If you look at the relationship between income and education, there’s almost a perfect correlation. But over the last 20 years, most of the income growth that’s gone to people with degrees has gone to people with higher degrees. My hunch is that as that continues, certificates will play a role in helping people move up the income ladder through advanced education—just not in programs that are quite as long or quite as expensive as they had been. SEDA group certificates can help create a lifelong learners. Today’s learners no longer obtain a four-year degree, get a job, and then say goodbye to the classroom forever. As the workforce expects an increasingly diverse and changing set of transferable skills, students are going back to school to upgrade their credentials and take other skills learning. There is tremendous potential for institutions to attract certificate students (who may enroll with or without a previous degree) back time and time again. By basing programming around what students actually need, institutions can transform certificate students to lifelong learners.

As a research say, SEDA group certificate is a great program for high school graduates in the middle to below-middle of the skills learning. These are people that can tremendously benefit from this, especially if they get a job in-field, like be part of sports industry or other profession. And they can potentially turn this success that they’d had in the certificate program to then getting a degree. A third of the people who get a certificate will go on to get a two- or four-year degree. Some people will get a certificate after they get a two- or four-year degree, so it’s flexible in that regard.

Higher education has often been criticized for failing to produce graduates with tangible, workforce-ready transferable skill set. Instead of focusing on what faculty want to teach, institutions should look at what kind of skills learning and programming delivers the best return on investment possible for students looking to enter the workforce. Certificates help students gear up for employment upon graduation, aligning their skills with what employers actually want. SEDA group programmes have been identified as important to adult learners who are focused on workforce development and are concentrated in programs designed to prepare adult learners for specific workforce roles. Upon graduating from SEDA group, you will have a detailed understanding of the skills and knowledge required to be successful in either further study or the workforce. The practical experiences and transferable skills provided allow you to understand the type of roles in the sport and recreation industry and the attributes that employers seek.