{"id":8859,"date":"2025-10-06T16:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tourism.gov.sc\/?p=8859"},"modified":"2025-10-06T16:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:05:29","slug":"new-governing-board-appointed-for-the-seychelles-tourism-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourism.gov.sc\/?p=8859","title":{"rendered":"New Governing Board Appointed for the Seychelles Tourism Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new Governing Board has been appointed to oversee the Seychelles Tourism Academy (STA), effective from 1 October 2025. Appointed by Minister Sylvestre Radegonde under Section 29(1) of the Tertiary Education Act of 2011, the Board will serve a three-year mandate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new Board comprises a blend of reappointed and newly appointed members drawn from diverse professional backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Derek Barbe and Mrs Kethleen Harisson continue in their respective roles of Chairperson and Secretary of the Board, while Mrs Rosemary Monthy has been appointed as Vice Chairperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other reappointed members include Mrs Phylis Padayachy-Tambara and Mr Guy Morel. The newly appointed members are Mrs Vanessa Albest-Fabien, Mr Peter Alvis, Mr Nitin Abbi, and Mr Benneth Alphonse. The Director of the Academy, Mr Richard Mathiot, continues to serve as an Ex-Officio Member of the Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reflecting on the appointments, Minister Radegonde highlighted the importance of the Academy\u2019s role in preparing and strengthening human capacity for the tourism industry and contributing meaningfully to national development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outgoing members who served under the previous Board, appointed in 2022, include Mr Guillaume Albert, Mr Andr\u00e9 Borg, Mr Lucas D\u2019Offay, and Mr Serge Robert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Governing Board has been appointed to oversee the Seychelles Tourism Academy (STA), effective from 1 October 2025. Appointed by Minister Sylvestre Radegonde under Section 29(1) of the Tertiary Education Act of 2011, the Board will serve a three-year mandate. The new Board comprises a blend of reappointed and newly appointed members drawn from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourism.gov.sc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourism.gov.sc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourism.gov.sc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourism.gov.sc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourism.gov.sc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tourism.gov.sc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourism.gov.sc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourism.gov.sc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourism.gov.sc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourism.gov.sc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}