EW Barker Professorship

The Physical Education and Sports Science (PESS) Acadamic Group hosted the second EW Barker Professor, Prof John Lyle from Leeds Metropolitina Unicersity, UK from 7 to 25 August 2006. Prof Lyle's areas of expertise are in coaching theory and coach education. During his stint, he met up with senior management of NIE for very meaningful dialogues.

His public lectures and workshop to PESS and NIE staff and student teachers, members of the coaching fraternity in Singapore and the Singapore Sports Council (SSC), the Singapore Sports School and the Singapore Physical Edcucation Association were a record of sorts for a visiting professor. More than 350 interested people interacted with him on a professional basis. A PESS staff is also co-authoring a chapter on coach education with him and there is a possiility of research collaboration with PESS ad SSC in the near future.

In his assessment of PESS faculty members Prof Lyle shares. "This is an academic group of high quality and distinction and compares favourably indeed with other institutions with which I have associated. PESS contributes very significantly to the development of physical education of sport in Singapore... Members of staff are very well qualified, with appropriate professional experience, and enjoy an excellent relationship with students... The whole acadamic group has a commitment to the highest standards and sets high expectations for both students and faculty."

PESS has coveted expertise in PE and the Sport Sciences- staff is well qualified and is committed and dedicated to the training of PE teachers at the highest staff; the contribute to the development of PE, the enhancement of healthy lifestyles and the expansion of sports, recreational and elite in Singapore. Research i PESS, using state-of-the-art equipment and laboratories, supported by good library resources in NIE, informs reaching and the practice of sports science om applied PE and sports performances. PESS research produced more than 45 publications in 2006-2007 in good quality peer-reviewed journals, an accomplishment that is praise-worthy for a group with a high emphasis on teaching. This prudent mix of evidence-based teaching and good research is the result of strong and sagacious stewardship demonstrated by the leaders of PESS and NIE.