Proposals for the New Maritime Education System in Asian Countries

Park, Young-Soo; Inoue, Kinzo; Park, Sung-Yong; Park, Jin-Soo

Journal of Navigation and Port Research 2008;32(9):693-698.
Published online December 20, 2008.

Proposals for the New Maritime Education System in Asian Countries

Young-Soo Park, Kinzo Inoue, Sung-Yong Park, Jin-Soo Park

Abstract

The maritime education and training is executed in Asian countries according to The International Convention on Standards of Training, Certijirotion and Watch keeping for Seafarers(STCW). However, mainly basic training and edurotion takes in maritime universities, berouse this convention is minimum requirements to become junior mariner. So, until now researches have not developed to the stage of discussing how maritime universities of advanced shipping countries should pursue the direction of edurotion in the new eras. Korea and Japan as the leading shipping countries in Asia, need to take initiatives in building a new edurotion system in order to foster the next generation maritime expert. To enhance the professional abilities of maritime technologists in the new era, element design qf science and technology relating to maritime issues and a new edurotion system based on an conalgamation of maritime edurotion and scientific and technological education were discussed.

Key Words: Future specialized education of maritime universities; Comprehensive and integrated maritime education;New maritime education system; Maritime education curricula;Special syllabus;Design of future education framework