..-appreciates collaboration of MCY&S and M.O.E
PRESIDENT of the Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVBF) Lennox ‘Lennie’ Shuffler has expressed his immense gratitude to the Federation of International Volleyball (FIVB) for not only making the teacher’s training course in volleyball a possibility but for also making it a success.

According to Shuffler Guyana’s 65 years of strong affiliation to the FIVB is hubbed through the Confederation of South American Volleyball.

He revealed that on the international scene the sport of volleyball is improving rapidly and in light of this the FIVB is trying to prevent developing countries from falling behind by extending lifelines in the form of these annual courses.

Shuffler said that out of the available options which include a young players’ course, a referees course, a level one coaching course and a teachers’ course, he felt that hosting a teachers’ course was the most sensible thing at the time.

Shuffler who is a long time advocate for sports programmes in schools felt that the need for improvement of Physical Education at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (C.S.E.C) Examinations coupled with the favourable response from the Ministry of Education’s (M.O.E) Allied Arts Unit made targeting the teachers a perfect match.

The GVBF president revealed that this is to be a catalyst for CSEC improvement as they (the GVBF) already drafted texts to aid in students’ preparation for the exams.

He was also elated that the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport and the Ministry of Education were more directly involved in this year’s effort as he believes that such coalitions are needed for local development.

The participants that successfully completed the exercise will receive a certificate of acknowledgement from the FIVB when the course wraps up today.