Leisures sports participation patterns of postgraduate students: The case of Kenyatta university, Nairobi, Kenya

Abstract

The purpose of this paper was to investigate the reasons why post-graduate students don't participate in structured sport and their leisure activities. Data was collected through questionnaires from 53 randomly selected post-graduate students of Kenyatta University. Data was manually ana lysed for frequencies and percentages. Findings indicated that the postgraduate students don 't participate in sp011due to lack of time, sport programmes not catering for their needs and too much academic work and engage in passive leisure activities of watching T.V, spending time with the family and reading. It lras recommended that sp011 programmes in the university need to be made post-graduate students friendly and they need to be educated all the benefits of active lifestyles and management.