Winds of change: going back to the basics

Abstract

The recent formation of a committee to develop policies on Sports for All in Kenya indicate the new thinking in the area of sports. Our Universities' sports programmes for a long time have depended on voluntary participation of students in the various sports provided. Once finances have been allocated for sports and the sports tutors assigned responsibilities, it has been assumed that everything else will take its course. However, observation of sports programmes in both public and private universities has shown that only few students are involved. The rest of the students are relegated to passive participants or at best they never appear near sports grounds. In this article focus has been placed on early sports Training as a determinant of future participation. The article also provides case studies of how some countries have tried to enhance youth sports programmes. Lastly the article provides some examples on how sports can be organised in our Universities