Market Research

Why do small courses like yoga?

The data show that almost 90% of workforce participants are registered
gym instructors and around 80% are registered personal trainers. Less
prevalent are yoga
Fitness Industry Workforce
instructors and aqua instructors, with only 0.3% and 1.5% of the
workforce registered to supply these services, respectively (classied as
other trainers).


Personal trainer competition ?

Based on this information, the annual supply of tness professional
graduates from public RTOs was estimated to range from 1,511 in 2007 to
2,732 in 2011.
Completion rates for enrolments in 2009 2020 were assumed to be
constant at 65.4%
Thus, the estimated annual supply of tness professionals from public
RTOs (TAFE) was estimated to be 2,768 in 2012, increasing to 2,985 in
2020 (Table 5.6).



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People that ACTUALLY graduate in Australia

Year Enrolled Employed in tness Graduated Drop out
2007 5910 51.4% 3546 2364
2010 9686 51.4% 5811 3875
2013 10,063 51.4% 6,037 4,026

Source: Deloitte Access Economics calculation; Note:
(a)
National VET Provider
Collection, 2006-10;
(b)
ABS (2010);
(c)
NCVER Student Outcomes Survey 2009-10.



Likelihood of trainers quitting since registration

2 years 5% Quit
4 Year 15% Quit
5 Years 50% Quit
8 Years 80 % Quit
10 years 90% Quit

Source: Deloitte Access Economics calculations; Fitness Australia (2011).


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Happiness & Work

A study & surrey over 20 counties show the share of people preferring
self-employment to dependent employment is in every country
considerably higher than the actual rate of self-employment in the
economy.

60% of the individuals say that they would prefer to be self-employed,
compared to approximately 10% percent who actually are.
It has been shown that self-employed people are more satised in their
work than employees, mainly because they enjoy greater autonomy and
independence
University of California at Berkeley. Bruno S. Frey is a Professor at the Institute for Empirical
Research in Economics at University of Zurich.


Personal Trainers are on the front line of a losing battle?

A global study into obesity rates, published in the medical journal The
Lancet, show almost a quarter of the country's children and 63 per
cent of the adult population is overweight.

Three in five Australian adults, and one in four children, are
overweight or obese, according the Australian Institute of Health
and Welfare.


Poor Fitness Course Education?
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First, student attrition rates around 90 percent for some huge
online courses appear to be a problem even in small-scale online
courses when compared with traditional face-to-face classes.
Second, courses delivered solely online may be fine for highly
skilled, highly motivated people, but they are inappropriate for
struggling students who make up a significant portion of college
enrollment and who need close contact with instructors to succeed.
Online classes are already common in colleges, and, on the whole,
the record is not encouraging. According to Columbia Universitys
Community College Research Center, for example, about seven
million students about a third of all those enrolled in college
are enrolled in what the center describes as traditional online
courses. These typically have about 25 students and are run by
professors who often have little interaction with students. Over all,
the center has produced nine studies covering hundreds of
thousands of classes in two states, Washington and Virginia. The
picture the studies offer of the online revolution is distressing.

Interestingly, the center found that students in hybrid classes
those that blended online instruction with a face-to-face component
performed as well academically as those in traditional classes.
But hybrid courses are rare, and teaching professors how to manage
them is costly and time-consuming.
The online revolution offers intriguing opportunities for broadening
access to education. But, so far, the evidence shows that poorly
designed courses can seriously shortchange the most vulnerable
students.

Source- Columbia Universitys Community College Research Center


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