- Although ship is a single entity, it is a component of the marine environment the rest of them being the person s involved as seafarers taking care of the routine shipboard operations, the architects involved in the design, development and construction of ships, the managers taking care of the commercial, technical and human resources aspect of the ship under the domain of shipping company, the persons involved in the logistics sector, the administrators, policy makers and the most important component at the grass root level but with whom the growth, development and sustenance of present and future shipping industry is entrusted with is none other than the Maritime education and training (MET) institutes.. - Education is the process of facilitating learning or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, habits whereas training is the one of the methods in pedagogy, the rest being teaching, discussion and directed research. - The procedure to the accomplish the essence of the fundamental principle is framed as minimum standards in the international convention on standards of training, certification and watch keeping for seafarers (STCW) code 1978, as amended, wherein it contains, in:. - Part A, the mandatory provisions to which specific reference is made in the annex to the STCW Convention and which give, in detail, the minimum standards required to be maintained by parties in order to give full and complete effect to the provisions of the STCW convention;. - Part B, recommended guidance to assist parties to the STCW convention and those involved in implementing, applying or enforcing its measures to give the STCW convention full and complete effect in a uniform manner.. - Under Article I – General obligations under the convention, parties to the STCW code have agreed to take all necessary steps which may be necessary to give the convention full and complete effect, so as to ensure that, from the point of view of safety of life and property at sea and the protections of the marine environment seafarers on board ships are qualified and fit for their duties.. - To facilitate homogenous interpretation of the recommended guidance given in Part B, of the STCW code a table explaining the type of competence, expected level of knowledge, understanding and proficiency for the said competency and criteria for evaluating competence is given as below:. - Ability to transmit and receive by Morse light, distress signal SOS as specified in Annex IV of the international regulations for preventing collisions at sea,1972, as amended and appendix 1 of the international code of signals and visual signaling of single letter signals as also specified in the international code of Signals. - Despite such revealing mandatory provisions and recommended guidance in the STCW code there still exists laps, gaps and inconsistency in the quality of MET as per BIMCO/ISF manpower report 2015.The parties who have agreed to give full and complete effect to the convention implement it as an expectation of the outcome of training given by MET.. - “There are no international standards of maritime education and training. - The STCW convention is only the outline, and does not define the professional or academic level that graduates achieve. - The job of regulating institutes should not only be of the Administration, but employers too should take this as their responsibility. - Although the comments are personal opinion, as a whole it calls out for a control on the perceived waning quality in the training standards as well as for the intervention of administration to get a better handle on the training imparted by the institutes in their states respectively.. - Key ways to enhance quality of Maritime Education and Training. - Recalling resolution 7 of the final act of the 2010 STCW conference which invokes the promotion of technical knowledge, skills and professionalism of seafarers, the stake holders primarily the MET, the shipping company and the administration have to realize that enhancing maritime education and training is not an independent responsibility but it is an interdependent responsibility.. - It is imperative for the MET and shipping companies to be cognizant of the fact that the overall effectiveness of selection, training and certification processes can only be evaluated through the skills, abilities and competence exhibited by seafarers during the course of their service onboard ship, hence there should not be any compromise in the established criteria and in the process for the selection of seafarers exhibiting the highest practicable standards of technical knowledge, skills and professionalism.. - At the beginning of the program itself the prospective officer (trainee) should be given full information and guidance as to what is expected of them and how the training programme is to be organized.. - Induction presents the opportunity to brief prospective officers about important aspects of the tasks they will be undertaking with particular regard to safe working practices and protection of the marine environment.. - The shipping company must have arrangements to encourage all officers serving on their ships to participate actively in the training of junior personal.The seafarers who are newly assigned to a ship should take of full advantage of every opportunity provided to become familiar with the shipboard equipment, operating procedures and other arrangements needed for proper performance of their duties.Immediately upon arriving on board for the first time, each seafarer has the responsibility to become acquainted with the ship’s working environment, particularly with respect to new or unfamiliar equipment, procedure or arrangements.. - There should be a seamless transition between training imparted ashore and onboard, in a broader perspective the shore based training institutes should precisely map the onboard procedures which are eventually changing from the beaten procedures because of technological advancement.It is extremely important that the prospective officer (trainee) is given adequate opportunity for supervised bridge and engine room watch keeping experience, particularly in the later stages of the onboard training programme.. - Guidance and reviewing are essential to ensure that prospective officers are fully aware of the progress they are making and to enable them to join in decisions about their future programme. - Assessment of competence should encompass more that the immediate technical requirements of the job, the skills and tasks to be performed and should reflect broader aspects needed to meet the full expectations of competent performance as a ship’s officer, like . - The spirit with which the code is compiled is vested with those people who are in the capacity of implementing the code and monitoring the changes it is bringing into effect. - The ways to enhance the quality of the maritime education and training is existing as a constitution in the STCW code but the key to implement it lies with individual seafarer.
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