Academic Success in Outdoor Learning
Three graduates are celebrating this week after they all achieved first-class degrees in BSc (Hons) Outdoor Adventure Leadership and Management. Tash Cantelo, Beth Elliott and Gemma Pagan (pictured with Course Tutor, Lee Pritchard) are thrilled with their result and have nothing but praise for the course and its tutors, “Our tutors are brilliant, always supportive, flexible and down to earth.”
This year marks the 13th year of the collaboration between the Holme Lacy Campus (previously Holme Lacy College up until its merger with Herefordshire College of Technology in 2007), and the University of Worcester. The link was created to draw on the talents of both institutions; the strong history of outdoor education at the Holme Lacy Campus fitting well with the strengths in sports science and coaching at the University of Worcester.
The course currently recruits 32 students a year and has been heavily oversubscribed in the last few years. This year the course achieved a 100% pass rate as well as the three first-class degrees. Students are involved in outdoor practical activities in all three years and develop a range of qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience. Alongside this, students undertake a range of modules that draw on theory and professional practice in outdoor education, sports science and leadership.
Tash Cantelo was keen to emphasise how potential learners should not be put off if they have not had much experience of the outdoors, “There is a really good mix of the practical and the academic on the course. They don’t throw you in at the deep-end; they ease you in and adapt to your capabilities so you can progress at your own pace. I’d definitely recommend the course to other people and hope that I will eventually go on to study an MA as well.”
