RNOC to offer courses in Advanced Sport Management

Rwanda National Olympics Committee (RNOC) will start offering courses in Advanced Sport management (ASMC), the committee’s head Ignace Beraho has revealed.

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Rwanda National Olympics Committee (RNOC) will start offering courses in Advanced Sport management (ASMC), the committee’s head Ignace Beraho has revealed.

The courses, which are expected to get underway on April 25 and end next January, are designed to educate local sports administrators more about how to administer their respective fields.

RNOC president, who also doubles as the ASMC Program Director confirmed to Times Sport over the weekend the body is committed to promote the spirit of Olympics to every interested Rwandan through offering educational programmes.

"We intend to conduct professional courses leading to the award of advanced certificates in a year," Beraho said on Saturday.

According to Beraho, these pilot courses will comprised of two different levels that include sport administration and managing Olympic sport organizations.

The one-year courses will be conduced in three semesters of three months each.

The ASMC courses are designed based on a virtual and educational framework based on a full participation of the candidates and the use of sound and living case studies.

"Every level completed by the courses’ beneficiaries enables them to get an award that enhances opportunities and better exposure in the sports sector at all levels," he added.

Asked who is eligible to benefit from the program, Beraho said all accredited sports administrators, those who want to become professional leaders in sports.

Others, he added, are federation administrators as well as anyone who wants to increase value and exposure in the African sports market.

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