The Oceania National Olympic Committees’ (ONOC) fifteen-year-old flagship programme, the Oceania Sport Education Programme (OSEP), held the ONOC Sport Industry Advisory Committee (IAC) Workshop from Tuesday, 30 August to Friday, 2 September, in Nadi, Fiji.
Preliminary
The technical workshop was held in a blended mode with five experts joining online from American Samoa, Guam, Marshall Islands, Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Technical activities plus composition of courses undergoing micro-qualifications
The workshop was designed in two phases: the first phase has the sport industry experts trained by the Pacific Community (SPC) Qualifications Lead of the Educational Equality and Assessment Programme (EQAP), Dr Rajendra Prasad, and the second phase has the sport industry experts develop and complete peer reviews of micro-qualifications in three sports courses.
These included; Sport Management: (a) Strategic Planning, and (b) Financial Management. The third course is (c) Nutrition and Recovery, which sits under Strength and Conditioning.
Previously, under the traditional OSEP offering, Sport Management and Strength and Conditioning sat as individual courses. Under the move to accreditation under the Pacific Qualifications Framework (PQF), these are being deconstructed into micro or small offerings that higher education institutions may offer to those interested in sport to pursue over an extended period as and when suitable.
Composition of sport industry experts at technical workshop
All sport industry experts giving their time and expertise at the ongoing workshops possess a suite of qualifications relevant to this long-term initiative to improve sport performance and administration in the Pacific islands, and to contribute strongly to the newly launched ONOC Brisbane 2032 Programme.
Most experts are graduates of the Oceania Sport Education Programme (OSEP), with some contributing years of training and support to the Pacific sporting community.
MEMOS contributes to strengthening Pacific sport industry improvement
Eight sport industry experts are graduates of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Master Executif en Management de Organisations Sportives (MEMOS), in English the Executive Masters in Sports Organisation Management.
The MEMOS graduates engaged in this exercise are; Erika Radewagen (American Samoa), Natanya Potoi (Samoa), Elu Tataua (Tuvalu), Sandra Low (Guam), Amy Sasser (Marshall Islands), Sainimili Saukuru (Fiji), Netina Latu (Tonga), and Karo Lelai (Papua New Guinea).
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Please visit the following links for more information:
On the Oceania National Olympic Committees
On the Oceania Sport Education Programme
On the ONOC BRISBANE 2032 Programme
On the MEMOS Programme in Oceania (under ONOC Olympic Solidarity)
On the IOC MEMOS Programme
On the Pacific Community’s EQAP
Article adapted from the ONOC website.