Sport education experts in Oceania have met to review the progress of micro-qualification of five courses in ONOC’s flagship Oceania Sport Education Programme, OSEP, an exercise occurring in partnership with the Pacific Community’s (SPC) Educational Quality and Assessment Programme (EQAP).
The Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) said the intent to pursue micro-qualifications of OSEP is to ensure those who complete the courses can have a formal qualification that increases their employability and entrepreneurial capacity in the Pacific Islands.
The micro-qualifications process leads to the courses being recognised on the Pacific Qualifications Framework, which is recognised by employers and industry in the region.
While OSEP is already recognised by the Olympic Movement as a ‘one of a kind’ flagship model of community-based sport education programme that has relevance and potential for duplication in marginal settings, its home ground challenge was its non-recognition in the Pacific Islands education setting, hence the move to micro-qualifications.
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The review meeting will examine the suite of each sport education course to check for appropriateness in terms of meeting sport industry standards by looking at a rubric of features including course objectives, volume, depth, coverage, learning outcomes, and whether these ensure the necessary competencies are going to be imparted to prospective candidates upon completion.
It will also review existing duplication between courses and revisions required if necessary.
The five courses undergoing micro-qualifications review cover management of sport organisations, community and development levels in strength and conditioning coaching, community level sports official and coaching.
The ongoing micro-qualifications exercise is part of the partnership of activities between ONOC and SPC and is being coordinated by Danny Threapleton. The exercise is managed by Head of OSEP, Meli Cavu, who holds the position of Chief Sport Education Programme Officer (Acting) at ONOC.
Article adapted from ONOC website.