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2025 in Review: Celebrating a year of ambition, breakthroughs and real-world impact

From world-leading research to community partnerships, student success and global impact, 2025 showcased the University of Brighton at its boldest and best. Here are some of the standout moments that defined our year: January The University of Brighton was awarded the highest sports education accreditation by CIMSPA for delivering pioneering sports and physical exercise degrees. Brighton jumped…

Students gain Football Association Secondary School Teachers award

Student PE teachers on the PGCE and School Connect routes experienced an intensive day with FA coaching staff. They learnt how to maximise learning time in PE lessons and how to promote the holistic development of pupils through a four models games approach to learning. They were also guided in how to adapt their lessons for…

University of Brighton named the UK’s most LGBTQ+ friendly university

Brighton has been crowned the UK’s most LGBTQ+ friendly university in a new survey, scoring 8.7 out of 10 for inclusivity – the highest in the country. The new findings from Erobella indicate that Brighton is a place where LGBTQ+ students feel safe, supported and celebrated, further strengthening the university’s reputation for fostering an inclusive and welcoming community. Nationally, the average university score…

Frisbee – The Ultimate Game

Student PE teachers were introduced to Ultimate Frisbee, a game widely taught in North America, as part of their initial teacher training. Ultimate Frisbee, officially called simply Ultimate, is an exciting, non-contact team sport that mixes the best features of soccer, basketball, American football and netball. Many schools now include Ultimate in their PE curriculum…

Teaching Rugby safely in secondary school PE lessons

Student teachers on the (Secondary) Physical Education PGCE were introduced to Tag Rugby at the Falmer campus. Tag Rugby is a non-contact version of rugby which removes the tackling element of the game, so that physical education lessons become safer and more inclusive for all sexes, ages and abilities. The game is played by two…

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Celebrating England’s female sporting success through Physical Education

In November 2011 the BBC announced their shortlist of candidates for the BBC Television Sports Personality of the Year based on the votes of27 newspaper and magazine editors – just six months before the London 2012 Olympic Games not one single British female sport star or athlete appeared on that shortlist. In November 2025, it…

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Student PE teachers provide team games activities for partnership school

Student physical education teachers on the PGCE route organised a series of team games activities for one of our partnership schools, the Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (BACA). Around 120 Year 7 pupils spent a day taking part in football, rugby, netball, hockey, ultimate frisbee and pop lacrosse in the university’s Falmer campus sports facilities. The…

Student teachers welcome back former PE trainee

We were delighted to welcome back to the Falmer campus, Tiana Zammit, a former PE PGCE student. Tiana is now an early careers PE teacher at St Paul’s Catholic College in West Sussex having completed her teacher training with us last year. Tiana gave valuable advice to the new cohort of student teachers as they…

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Student teachers hold team building event for 150 pupils

Brighton’s student physical education teachers organised a team building event for Gildredge House School as part of their course. Around 150 Year 7 pupils took part in a series of ice-breaking games, trust games, team building exercises, and decision making and problem solving activities throughout the day at the university’s new sports facilities on the Falmer…

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Introducing Disability Games into the PE Curriculum

Following their introductory session to disability sport, our new cohort of student PE teachers had a games training session devoted to teaching pupils who are sight impaired or have movement difficulties. The Secondary Physical Education PGCE students were shown a range of games that can be practised by all but are particularly suitable for pupils…