Active lifestyles are key to ensuring both individual well-being and sustainable, social development. Quality Physical Education (QPE) plays a key role in achieving this by fostering lifelong physical activity, improving young people’s mental and emotional well-being, and developing critical life skills. UNESCO’s sport initiative, Fit for Life, advocates QPE as a cost-effective investment.
Policymakers, PE practitioners and academia are encouraged to take action to implement PE policies, increase investment in PE, upskill PE teachers, enhance PE curricula and promote more equitable and inclusive PE environment. The (research) work of the Chair team contributes to these overarching objectives and key areas of work; for example, with the three initiatives KaziKidz (Physical Education intervention for schoolchildren), KaziHealth (workplace health promotion programme for teachers) and KaziPlay (playground and sanitation intervention in educational settings).
Co-authored by UNESCO and Loughborough University, this report builds on UNESCO’s commitment to QPE and serves as a vital resource for policymakers, PE practitioners, and academics to advance QPE policy and practice worldwide. Its findings highlight key challenges and opportunities in the implementation of QPE, including insufficient funding, inadequate training for PE teachers, and lack of inclusive facilities.
