70 Maritime Colleges, 7000 Students Join MSAP 2008
Saturday, 02 February 2008 09:54 | Written by Administrator | | |
The third nationwide staging of examinations for the Maritime Students Assessment Program, held on February 1-2, was successfully completed with 70 maritime colleges accredited by the Commission on Higher Education Accredited (CHED). A total of 7,131 second year maritime students; including 2,761 BSMarE and 6,463 BSMT majors participated. Major Philippine manning and professional associations also actively supported and participated in the event led by the Philippine-Japan Manning Consultative Council, Inc. (PJMCC), the Filipino Association for Mariners Employment (FAME), the Philippine Association of Manning Agencies and Shipmanagers, Inc. (PAMAS) and the International Maritime Association of the Philippines (INTERMAP).
Main Theme for 2008 Philippine Japan Manning Cooperative Forum: RP-Japan Partnership
Monday, 07 January 2008 09:54 | Written by Administrator | | |
Manila will play host for this year's Philippine-Japan Manning Cooperative Forum with the theme "A Sustainable and United Partnership Towards Global Maritime Leadership-Ensuring a Safe, Stable and Respectable Maritime Community and will feature speakers from Japan who will discuss an overview of the state of the order to maintain its maritime leadership. For their part, Filipino speakers will tackle its activities and programs which will directly respond to the Japanese initiatives. The Department of Education will also face the human resource requirement of Japan through its secondary education strategies while the Commission on Higher Education will discuss the responsibilities and relevance of the maritime curriculum to the said HR requirements of the Japanese maritime industry. Meanwhile the Department of Labor and Employment is expected to talk about the various employment policies, initiatives and programs that will proactively respond to Japanese demands including those of the maritime sectors. A comprehensive map for the Philippine-Japan maritime community is also expected to be set-up before the end of the forum.