In Europe sport jobs are in demand

Sport science and leisure studies has become the fastest growing field for jobs in higher education according to the latest study of movements in the academic employment market. Over two years, the number of academics employed full time in this area has risen by 19% - more than double the growth rate of staff recruitment in any other discipline and more than 7 times that of the sector overall. A Times Higher analysis of data supplied by the Higher Education Statistics (HES) Agency shows that between 2003-04 and 2004-05, the last year for which figures are available, the number of full-time academics in sport science and leisure studies rose by 180 to 1,120. Read more: Eurogates. Forum of education news