Sport psychology. Sport psychology is an interdisciplinary science that draws on knowledge from many related fields including biomechanics, physiology, kinesiology and psychology. It involves the study of how psychological factors affect performance and how participation in sport and exercise affect psychological and physical factors.
Home education is increasingly popular in the UK. Known as âhomeschoolingâ in the United States, it simply means that parents take responsibility for their childrenâs education rather than delegating it to a school.ccording to the 1996 education act in England and Wales, it is parents (not the state) who are responsible for providing their childrenâs education âin school or otherwiseâ. Their education must be suitable for the age, ability and aptitude of each child.
It is also possible for a free school to be a faith school, but it must offer 50 per cent of its places to non-believers â a requirement not asked of mainstream faith schools. 2,415: To add to the mix, there are 2,415 independent schools: 1,625 primary and 790 secondary.These educate about 7 per cent of the school age population. 372: The picture elsewhere in the UK is simpler than in England. In Scotland there are 372 secondary schools, all comprehensive in intake.Of these, 53 are faith schools (all Catholic). There are 2,099 primary schools, 318 of which are denominational or faith schools, 314 Catholic, three episcopal and one Jewish.here are now 1,300 academies in England â about a third of the state secondary school system. However, Mr Cameron came under fire from academics and teachers' leaders last night who claimed he was dismantling the current education system.