Social Impacts on the Maritime Education – a Case Study of National Kaohsiung Marine University in Taiwan

• Autorzy: Hu Jia-Shen , Chang S. W. , Chen T. S.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Recent developments in Taiwan toward the technology intensive country, the employment of cost effective foreign labors by shipping companies, the widespread of universities and the internationalization of shipping industries propose considerable threats on the quality assurance of maritime education. A resultant crisis for lacking on-board seafarers with managerial levels has urged the consolidation of governmental, private and educational organizations in the attempts to further improve the quality of maritime education and to promote the on-board career incentives. The process from the formulation of problems to the implementation of strategies undertaken by the National Kaohsiung Marine University (NKMU) is reviewed. A chain reaction initiated from the degradation of students’ entry performances due to the widespread of universities has formed a viscous cycle leading to the outsourcing of foreign human resources by shipping industry. Strategies in the aspects of course reform, joint ventures of lectureship with shipping industry, pre-courses for students’ extended career plans and the establishment of educational center that consolidates the departments of navigation, marine engineering and fishery in NKMU are illustrated.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Maritime Education and Tr; Maritime Education; human resources; Shipping Industry; educational reform; STCW-95; Quality Assurance

• Wydawca: Faculty of Navigation, Gdynia Maritime University
• Czasopismo: TransNav : International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation
• Rocznik: 2008
• Tom: Vol. 2, no. 2
• Strony: 197--203
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 4 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Hu Jia-Shen

• National Kaohsiung Marine University, Taiwan

autor

Chang S. W.

• National Kaohsiung Marine University, Taiwan

autor

Chen T. S.

• National Kaohsiung Marine University, Taiwan

Bibliografia

• 1 Statistic data, Ministry of Transportation and Communication, Taiwan, Table 6-10, Cargo throughputs via ports in Taiwan, http://www.motc.gov.tw (in Chinese).
• 2 Shipping Statistics and Market Review (SSMR), Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL), Bremen, 1995-2005.
• 3 Fang F.L., A study on development of the relationships between the ITF and FOCs, Ms. Thesis, p. 10, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2006 (in Chinese).
• 4 Xu M.C., Entry into university is not equivalent to the graduation – resolution of dropping rate from university, National Policy Forum, Vol. 1, No. 4, June, 2001. http://www.npf.org.tw/monthly/00104/theme-087.htm (in Chinese).