In 1971 he studied at
Loughborough College for his degree in physical education (PE). He graduated in 1976.
In 1984 Nick Aplin studied a master's degree at Loughborough. In late 1985 he became a lecturer at the College of Physical Education in SIngapore. He completed a PhD in 1999.[1]
Nick Aplin's first book, To the Finishing Line, was published in 2002. It was a set of biographical impressions of the first three Singaporean women Olympians: Tang Pui Wah, Mary Klass and Janet Jesudason. In 2009 he published Perspectives on Physical Education and Sports Science in Singapore. Alongside
Tibor Károlyi, Aplin wrote a series of chess books. Endgame Virtuoso Anatoly Karpov was Guardian's Chess Book of the Year in 2007.[2][3]
Aplin, Nick, ed. (2009). Perspectives on Physical Education and Sports Science in Singapore: an Eye on the Youth Olympics 2010.
McGraw-Hill Education.
ISBN978-007-128164-5.