Vanuatu's First IRB Educator

Vanuatu now has its first-ever International Rugby Board-certified Educator. He is Edward Joseph, the current VRU National Development Officer based at VASANOC.

Mr Joseph earned this recognition during the Annual Oceania Rugby Development Workshop in Nadi last month. Held from 9^th to 13^th August in Nadi, Fiji, this annual workshop for IRB Member Unions in the Pacific again delivered a range of programmes and initiatives including workshops on the Olympics, Women’s strategic planning, an OSEP Administrator program, Trust Development Grant meetings, a Trainer and Educator course and a Sevens Rugby course. All Member Unions of FORU, except for the Solomon Islands, were represented at the weeklong event.

Mr Jospeh also earned his Level One IRB Coaching Sevens Certificate during the same course.  This is a first for Vanuatu and Vanuatu Rugby.

VASANOC CEO congratulated Mr Edward Joseph for this achievement and encouraged all the DOs and NFs to make use of such opportunity to buildup the national sports human resource.

The International Rugby Board and the Federation of Oceania Rugby Unions would like to acknowledge the support of the Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) who jointly funded the Regional Development workshop – without their help, the workshop would not have been the success it was.