Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 June 2023

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Inclusion in Sport: Discussion

Ms Sarah Carney:

I echo the point on education. As the Senator will be aware, we are based in MTU. We are also increasingly looking at education of the sports sector. Graduates from our university and other graduates will go into the workforce in the sports sector. For example, we have a good programme on adapted physical activity, but inclusion as a value is not embedded throughout higher education sports learning. If inclusive practice and how to tackle discrimination in sport were to become a core module or component, whatever field of sport graduates go on to work in would see a massive change within a few years because we would have a workforce that is equipped to handle these issues.

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