March 2016
March 1st marked the beginning of the outreach to potential students from Barbados to join the Postgraduate Diploma (Pg. Dip.) Sports Management Programme at the UWI St. Augustine Campus. Ms. Charisse Bacchus represented the Sports Management discipline at the UWI Career Fair, Cave Hill, as well as on television and radio programmes on the island.
Charisse Bacchus meets with interested students
Ms. Bacchus noted the enthusiasm of persons who attended the Sports Management booth, noting also their desire for more information. The sight of this desire to pursue the postgraduate diploma is certainly important as Ms. Bacchus noted that student athletes do not readily consider Sports Science as a career, due particularly to societal misconceptions of its validity and potential.
Charisse Bacchus speaks at the CBC Barbados
The UWI St. Augustine had the pleasure of speaking both on the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation, Barbados’ radio and television programmes; “Talk Back”, “Good Morning Barbados”, “Football Fiesta” and “The Mix”. This allowed Ms. Bacchus to speak not only on the postgraduate diploma but on issues faced by women in sports, and current events in football and cricket, showing the relevance of the programme to the passions of Caribbean people today.
Charisse Bacchus speaks with Teisha Hinds and Amanda Reifer on issues faced by women in sport
In the wake of this outreach, the Sports Management discipline looks forward to a further increase in interest in the Pg Dip as men and women begin to see the value of Sports Management as a career and begin to break inaccurate, traditional limitations placed on the field.
May 2012
May 29 – Sports students receive awards
2nd cohort UWI/FIFA/CIES Post Graduate Diploma students
On 29th May the Department of Management Studies awarded UWI/FIFA/CIES Diplomas to the first and second cohort of students within its Post Graduate Sports Management Programme at a special ceremony held at the Learning Resource Centre.
1st and 2nd cohort students graduated after studying the foundations of sport management with a particular emphasis on the realities of the Caribbean region. Lectures were supplemented with special sessions from both local and international speakers.
Prof. Clement Sankat, Pro Vice Chancellor and Principal of The UWI; Dr. Hamid Ghany, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Dr. Keith Clifford, Chairman of the First Citizens Sports Foundation, stressed the vital role that sport plays in Caribbean society and the need to give qualitative support at management level. The UWI / FIFA / CIES Postgraduates have now been asked to contribute to the development of their region by investing their knowledge in sports organizations as quickly as possible.
The Department of Management Studies and the CIES would like to take this opportunity to thank Professor Clement Sankat, Dr. Hamid Ghany and Mr. Errol Simms for their unwavering support of the programme from its inception and wish every success to the many happy graduates this year: Boni Bishop, Brian-Anthony David, Andrea Francis, Shawn Garcia (Valedictorian), Seychelle Grant, Francis Haynes, Charisse Bacchus, Edmund Berahzer, Vinda Ramsingh II, Sterling Seebransingh, Winston Sobers, Nyron Thomas, Christian Medina, Mauricia Nicholson National Hockey and Football player), Elizabeth Mc Comie (Betty), Brent Phillips (Valedictorian), James Stewart, Annette Knott (V.P. Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee), John Felix, Roger Pierre and Kion Williams.
The UWI/FIFA/CIES Post Graduate Diploma commenced in January 2010 following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding the previous year at the St. Augustine Campus and caters to the needs of individuals whose undergraduate training is in areas other than sports management and desire to branch into a professional career in sports management.
Arts in Action re-enacts scenes from the Crawford and Boldon races.
The UWI through its Department of Management Studies therefore has the remit of offering the Diploma Programme to candidates within the English Speaking Caribbean. Thus far expressions of interest to participate in the programme have been received from persons and organizations from Grenada, St. Vincent, Jamaica, Antigua & Barbuda and further afield in Guatemala, Guadeloupe and Bangladesh.
3rd cohort UWI/FIFA/CIES volunteers Calistra and Calisia Gregoire
This October 2012, the Department will open online applications for its January 2013 intake. For more information please call + 1 868 662 2002 ext. 83724; e-mail the Programme Coordinator at Charisse.Broome@sta.uwi.edu or log on to www.sta.uwi.eduor www.cies-uni.org .
February 2012
February 16 – UWI welcomes 3rd cohort of UWI/FIFA/CIES Post Graduate Diploma students.
January 2012
January 13 – UWI 2nd International Tourism Conference.