Hello all!

In a discussion with my friends about sport at school, we started to 
wonder about the situation in other countries...

We were not talking about highschool but rather in the later stages, 
think grad school, master's degree, engineering school, PhD even...

Is some amount of sport compulsory? Are there restrictions in the choice 
of the activity? How is this evaluated by the school? Do you think it 
can be relevant later when looking for a job?

Of course if other French people wish to chime in as well, their 
opinions would also be very appreciated :-)

-- 
Vincent

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On Thu, 22 May 2008 23:31:47 +0200, Vincent Le Chevalier wrote:

> Is some amount of sport compulsory? Are there restrictions in the choice
> of the activity? How is this evaluated by the school? Do you think it
> can be relevant later when looking for a job?

In the early 90's when I was in college, it was not required at the 
school I went to.

Jim

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Vincent Le Chevalier wrote:
> We were not talking about highschool but rather in the later stages, 
> think grad school, master's degree, engineering school, PhD even...
> 
> Is some amount of sport compulsory? Are there restrictions in the choice 
> of the activity? How is this evaluated by the school? Do you think it 
> can be relevant later when looking for a job?

	In the US, I don't think public universities require it. I know of at 
least one private college that does.

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On Thu, 22 May 2008 18:01:32 -0400, Jim Henderson wrote:

> On Thu, 22 May 2008 23:31:47 +0200, Vincent Le Chevalier wrote:
> 
>> Is some amount of sport compulsory? Are there restrictions in the
>> choice of the activity? How is this evaluated by the school? Do you
>> think it can be relevant later when looking for a job?
> 
> In the early 90's when I was in college, it was not required at the
> school I went to.

Well, let me correct myself - for students who are in the Reserve 
Officers' Training Corps (ROTC), there is mandatory Physical Training 
(PT), regardless of the school you're going to.  But for students not in 
those programs or at a military academy, I don't believe there is.

Jim

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> We were not talking about highschool but rather in the later stages, think 
> grad school, master's degree, engineering school, PhD even...
>
> Is some amount of sport compulsory? Are there restrictions in the choice 
> of the activity? How is this evaluated by the school? Do you think it can 
> be relevant later when looking for a job?

I went to University in the UK and there was no requirement to do any sport. 
In fact, our "Director of Studies" made it very clear to us that we were 
there to learn Engineering, if we wanted to become sportspeople we should 
leave and go to another University that offers some sort of sport degree. 
One guy was actually kicked out because he refused to do less sport (he was 
on course to fail, and had been repeatedly warned).

Saying that though, of course we were encouraged to join a few club and 
societies (not just sports ones) just to get your mind off work regularly.

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Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> Vincent Le Chevalier wrote:
>> We were not talking about highschool but rather in the later stages, 
>> think grad school, master's degree, engineering school, PhD even...
>>
>> Is some amount of sport compulsory? Are there restrictions in the 
>> choice of the activity? How is this evaluated by the school? Do you 
>> think it can be relevant later when looking for a job?
> 
>     In the US, I don't think public universities require it. I know of 
> at least one private college that does.
> 

Depends on the college. The little community college I started at 
required some physical class for a bachelors degree in just about 
anything. They offered lots of simple 1 credit classes, skiing, 
swimming, outdoor hiking, and so on.

At the state university I went to later, they don't have a requirement 
that I remember. Taking physical classes would count for requirements, 
but they just aren't requisite for graduating.

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Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> Depends on the college. The little community college I started at 
> required some physical class for a bachelors degree in just about 
> anything. They offered lots of simple 1 credit classes, skiing, 
> swimming, outdoor hiking, and so on.

Not uncommon for an undergraduate degree (which, for those in other 
countries, means after required grade-school, before specialist/masters 
degree.)

My undergraduate college required one ever semester, but one of their 
claims to fame was teaching people how to be physical education 
teachers, so that doesn't really count.

I never heard of a US masters degree or PhD requiring a "phys ed" course 
unless it was actually relevant.

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