WORLD MARITIME UNIVERSITY
7600/ir
05 November 1999
Issues in MET
There are a number of issues (or not yet solved problems) in maritime education and training (MET), some of them have existed for a long time, some are new. The issues need to be addressed with a view to further improving MET quality and providing a better service to the industry and the individual. A few of the issues are created by differences between global shipping and national MET and by occasional differences in what is expected from MET by ship operators, unions, national maritime and education administrations, associations of professionals, MET institutions and other "parties" involved in, or concerned with, MET. Other issues between MET and its environment have been caused by changes in the regulatory, societal and technological environment of MET. A third group of issues exists within the boundaries of MET.
Important issues are:
・international industry and national MET
・variations in interests
・safety and costs
・industry and individual
・MET provisions and shipboard requirements
・tradition and change
IMLA 11 will provide the forum for detailing and discussing these issues, for identifying and extending common ground on them and for proposing and promoting solutions. It will provide for an exchange of knowledge, experience and views and will help to chart the course for MET into the 21st century.
Abstracts (of no more than 400 words) of proposed papers addressing, in a MET context, any of the issues mentioned above or other not yet solved problems affecting MET should be sent to
