Faculty of Physical Education
Established in 2012, our Faculty undertakes the teaching of public physical education course, the launching of mass sports events, training of sports team and evaluation of students’ physical health. There are three teaching and research offices (offices for large balls, small balls and comprehensive office) and three centers (physical health test center for college students, venue center and quality development for college students). We now have 27 faculty members, including 23 full-time teachers, in which there are 1 professor , 8 associate professors, 1 international-level referee, 1 state-level referee, and 2 school-level “top10 young teachers”.
Our Faculty adheres to the education concept of “people foremost, health first, lifelong physical education”, takes strengthening students’ physique and improves health as foundation, and forms three-in-one physical education system of physical education course teaching, sunshine sports and sports training. Implement in-class and extracurricular physical education mode in the teaching of PE course, actively explore and implement new teaching mode of sports club system, combine various teaching forms and assessment methods; focus on launching sunshine sports, promote campus PE culture atmosphere, combine sunshine sports meeting, college students’ sports culture festival, school featured sports activity and students’ sports club activity, thicken campus PE culture atmosphere, guide students to take part in sunshine sports, develop the habit of sports exercises, facilitate adolescent physical and mental health; vigorously reinforce the construction of sports team, build 2-3 major sports teams and 4-6 ordinary sports teams, strive for applying for high-level sports team, form traditional competitive sports of NIT, realize the development goal of mainly built teams having superiority in the province and having impact in the country, and expand the popularity and influence of NIT. NIT was elected as “sunshine sports advanced unit” by Provincial Education Department in 2010.
In recent years, our sports team has continuously achieved outstanding results in the national and provincial college students' competitions: our men's basketball team has won the first group championship of Jiangxi college students' basketball competitions for many times, and represented uuniversities from Jiangxi to participate in the CUBA China University Basketball League (second level league) five times, among which we won the fourth place in the national final in 2015; In 2018, the university bridge team won the second place in the women's team of the National University Bridge Championship and the fourth place in the National Youth Bridge Team Competition; In 2018, the school volleyball team won the championship of the men's volleyball competition in the college department of the 15th Jiangxi Games; The school swimming team won 9 gold medals, 17 silver medals and 14 bronze medals in the 14th and 15th Games of Jiangxi Province; The school football, table tennis, badminton, tennis, aerobics, orienteering and other sports teams have won excellent results in the provincial college students' competitions for many times, winning honors for the school.
After the construction of Yaohu Campus in 2003, sports facilities have made a leap forward development, sports teaching and exercise conditions have been fundamentally improved, the total area of the school sports ground is about 136,490 square meters, there is a multi-functional stadium that can accommodate 2890 people, 2 standard 400 meter track and field fields, 1 300 meter track and field field, 33 basketball fields, 3 standard football fields, 2 seven person football fields, 4 five person football fields, and 10 volleyball fields, There are 11 tennis courts and 2 fitness equipment areas, creating good conditions for physical education teaching, sports training and mass sports activities.
