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KBS mahu jalin kerjasama dengan University Stirling


AHMAD SHABERY (kiri) bersalaman dengan pengetua University of Stirling, Prof. Gerry McCormac selepas mengadakan pertemuan di Stirling, Scotland semalam.


STIRLING (SCOTLAND) - Kementerian Belia dan Sukan (KBS) bercadang mengadakan kerjasama dengan University of Stirling bagi membangunkan sukan di Malaysia.
Demikian jelas menterinya, Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek semalam.

Beliau berkata, satu perbincangan mengenai perkara itu sedang diatur antara Majlis Sukan Negara (MSN), universiti tersebut dan Majlis Sukan Scotland.

"Kerjasama itu akan memberi fokus kepada model pembangunan industri sukan, pengurusan sukan dan persediaan atlet," katanya selepas melawat universiti tersebut semalam.
Ahmad Shabery berkata, kerjasama itu turut membuka kemungkinan untuk mewujudkan pangkalan hadapan atlet sebagai persediaan ke Sukan Komanwel 2014 di Glasgow.

Pada masa yang sama, beliau menggesa universiti di Malaysia mencontohi rakan di Scotland yang melakukan pelbagai penyelidikan untuk pembangunan sukan.

Katanya, hasil penyelidikan itu pula akan diadaptasi dan dimanfaatkan sektor sukan tanah air.
Ketika lawatan itu, Ahmad Shabery dibawa melihat kelengkapan dan kemudahan yang disediakan untuk pembangunan sukan di universiti tersebut selain diberi taklimat berkenaan kejayaannya membangunkan industri sukan selama 30 tahun, yang bukan saja menjana pendapatan tetapi juga melahirkan atlet terbaik dunia.

University of Stirling adalah satu-satunya institusi pengajian tinggi di negara itu yang menawarkan biasiswa pengajian sukan.

Ia juga berjaya menghasilkan 75 juara peringkat nasional selain melahirkan atlet yang bertanding di peringkat Sukan Olimpik, Sukan Komanwel dan acara bertaraf antarabangsa lain. - Bernama

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