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Seminar on education literacy set

Manama, Apr. 24 (BNA): The Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) will Saturday hold a seminar on Education Literacy at the Education Ministry’s hall in Isa Town. Commencing at 9.30am, the seminar is part of the committee’s commitment towards different segments of the Bahrain society and will be presented by its Sports Training and Development Centre which is based in Juffair. Istvan Balyi, who is acknowledged worldwide as the expert in long term athlete development and the periodization of training plans, will be speaking at the seminar. He will highlight a number of issues, such as ways to promote education literacy and spreading sport culture among the Bahraini community by presenting the Canadian experience in this field. The Canadian professor currently works as a World Class Advisor for Sport England, helping to re-develop their long-term high performance programs. He concurrently advises UK Athletics, the English Rugby Union, the English Cricket Board, British Swimming and the Football Association (Women) on high performance training and development. BOC general secretary Abdulrahman Askar welcomed the visiting professor on this occasion and thanked him for his efforts in this area and wished for the audience to benefit from the seminar.

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