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Examining resilience: assessing and measuring resilience within the context of maritime administrations
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Understanding human impacts on the marine environment in Fiji: insights from an ODEMM conceptual model and semi-structured interviews
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A multiple case study of METI cybersecurity education and training: a basis for the development of a guiding framework for educational approaches
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MAAP Transition from ISO 9001:2015 to ISO 21001:2018 the new quality standard in education organization
Get PDFSustainable success has become an ever-more-important future goal in all industries but challenges arise from the advent of fourth industrial revolution and revisions of national and international regulations directly affect the shipping industry trickling down to the Maritime Education and Training Institutions (METI). Thus, a metamorphosis of standards for a maritime school like the Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific (MAAP) transitioning to a more tailor-fit Quality Standards is inevitable to manage the changes in educational organizations. ISO 21001:2018 has been published in oder to replace IWA 2:2007. This prompted the Academy to evolve from the traditional ISO 9001:2015 standard. This paper aims to discuss the STCW ’78 (as amended) requirements for Quality Standard System and how the new standard in educational and training organizations complies with it. The paper shall also serve as a resource and reference for those schools that are looking for standards that can attune their management systems gearing towards safer, cleaner, and excellent shipping by having a competent seafarer through a certified Educational Organization Management System. With the vision of the academy to be the leading institution of excellence in maritime and training the Asia-Pacific region and beyond, certification with the standard is indeed a milestone and breakthrough
An engineer on board a marine research vessel: proposal for education and extra-curricular activity toward the creation of value
Get PDFSeafarers do not come in the foreground in society and support their country from locations away from many nations. Under such a special circumstance, the Happiness Of Life At Sea (HOLAS) as seafaring is a life, both on board and ashore, where seafarers acquire and achieve their own value in themselves internally. Here I consider and propose, through my personal experiences, value-creating activities which we must address as part of maritime education and extra-curricular from now o