When one compares some sample courses from IMO Model Course and ITUMF curriculum such as Mathematics, Physics it will be clearly observed that the IMO Model Course contents are at Junior High School level with Turkish standards, and should not be re lectured at that level in a University. Mandatory minimum Turkish Law contents of Calculus or Physics as practised anyway now, should be lectured. Thus, having already studied them before University, some hours of basic courses should be deducted from the IMO required total number of hours.
Moreover, the number of hours required by IMO for professional Maritime courses should be reconsidered to be vastly decreased at ITUMF taking into account the following boundary conditions of STCW '95 Code, Section B-I/8 (Guidance regarding quality standards).
.1 The mission statement of the institution
.2 Details of academic and training strategies in use;
.3 An organisation chart and information on the composition of committees and advisory bodies;
.4 Staff and student information
.5 A description of training facilities equipment, training vessel, simulators etc..
.6 An outline of the policies and procedures on:
.6.1. student admission
.6.2. the development of new courses and review of existing courses
.6.3. the examination system, including appeals and resits
.6.4. staff recruitment training, development, appraisal and promotion
.6.5. feedback from students and from industry, and
.6.6. staff involvement in research and development
Again experimental observations for pilot number of courses will be carried out with a number of students (10 each for example) with different academical backgrounds from each category of institution attending to a certain lecture under the same conditions (staff member, laboratory etc...), and then being tested to observe their comparatively success trends. It is expected that ITUMF students will comparatively score much higher points relative to other students, thus again contributing towards the development of an empirical formula of less hours spent on learning a certain topic.
