ASCI Partners with United States Sports University for Sports Courses

Cyril Titus Zachariah

Updated On: April 10, 2019 11:33 am IST

An MoU has been signed between Administrative Staff College of India and the United States Sports University. The faculty from USSA will be teaching the Indian coaches as well as the players as part of the agreement signed between them along with providing courses at all levels of education.

ASCI Partners with United States Sports University for Sports Courses

In a partnership with Sports Asia Foundation which is a part of the United State Sports Academy (USSA) and the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), ASCI has now opened its doors to the sports sector. The MoU was signed between the parties at a ceremony that was held at Bella Vista on Tuesday.

The United State Sports Academy came into existence almost half a century ago in the state of Alabama, USA. The USSA is also known as America’s Sports University, have been delivering high-quality education in the field of sports as well as service programmes in over 60 countries across the globe. The USSA will be sending in their faculties at ASCI to train the players, Indian coaches administrators along with the sports enthusiasts in India as per the agreement signed.

Sports Asia Foundation Head, P Nagendra and ASCI Registrar Kalyan K Roy had signed the MoU in the presence of the President and CEO of the USSA Dr TJ Rosandich and the chairman of ASCI K Padmanabhaiah. The modalities of cooperation and the shape of the modules along with the duration of the modules had been discussed between two representatives from ASCI Dr Ramu and Prof Nirmala along with P Nagendra and Dr Rosandich.

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In a statement made by Dr Rosandich, USSA is the only free-standing accredited University of Sports in the USA. They offer a variety of Sports-centric course at various levels, i.e. graduate, postgraduate, doctoral-level along with an assortment of degree programmes in graduate and postgraduate at the seminar, certification/certificate as well as diploma levels.

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K Padmanabhaiah, former Union Minister and ASCI chairman had embraced the new MoU saying that the change will bring forth an academic front to sports activities in India. The Director-General of ASCI Prof Nirmala has stated that an international certification sports management programme will be on the table as well along apart from the consultancy and research assignments.

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