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Sports Life Skills Certification Expands From Schools to Colleges
A programme that teaches life skills through sports is expanding from schools to colleges.
College students can complete seven levels and earn a separate certificate.
The certificate can be received alongside a regular degree.
Students learn about decision-making, teamwork, communication, leadership and handling setbacks.
At college level, the activities involve more difficult choices and greater responsibility.
Sports are used because games naturally include pressure, cooperation, disagreement, success and failure.
The goal is not to prove that students are good athletes.
Instead, students practise skills that can help in classrooms, interviews, workplaces and daily life.
The programme is part of a wider interest in showing what students can do, not only what they have studied.
The seven-level Sports Life Skills Certification Programme, initially designed for Classes 6–12, is now available to college and undergraduate students.
Students who complete the pathway can receive internationally accredited certification alongside their academic qualifications.
The framework was developed by Dr. Kanthi D. Suresh, an initiative of HIPSA implemented through Power Sportz Academy.
College-level activities apply competencies such as decision-making, collaboration, resilience, communication, leadership, ethical judgement and responsibility to more complex situations.
The expansion reflects growing interest in credentials that demonstrate practical and behavioural skills in addition to degrees.
- Who
- College and undergraduate students, with the framework developed by Dr. Kanthi D. Suresh through HIPSA and Power Sportz Academy.
- What
- The seven-level Sports Life Skills Certification Programme is being extended from school students to higher education.
- Where
- The programme was developed in India and the announcement was reported from Hyderabad.
- When
- The expansion is reported in the context of 2026 data on micro-credentials and skills certification.
- Why
- To provide additional, structured evidence of behavioural and life skills alongside academic qualifications.
Key facts
- Programme
- Sports Life Skills Certification Programme
- Pathway
- Seven levels
- Original audience
- Students in Classes 6–12
- New audience
- College and undergraduate students
- Certification
- Internationally accredited certification alongside academic qualifications
- Framework competencies
- Decision-making, collaboration, resilience, communication, leadership, ethical judgement and responsibility
- Implementing organisation
- Power Sportz Academy, through an initiative of HIPSA
Quotes
Dr. Kanthi D. Suresh
Conceptualiser and developer of the Sports Life Skills Framework
“A college student should leave an institution with more than a degree. Academic qualifications demonstrate what a student has studied. Competency certification can provide additional evidence of the behavioural and life skills that a student has systematically developed.”
thehansindia.com
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