MariComp report recommends maritime lecturers to brush up on their sea experience
Wednesday 28 November 2007
The aims of the MariComp project are to improve the competencies of lecturers in maritime education institutions and through that to improve the competencies of maritime graduates. The EU funded project is comprised of partners from Denmark, the Netherlands, Estonia, Ireland, Romania and Norway. MariComp has produced their first report which looks at the prospective requirements for lecturers’ competencies.
The results of their web-based questionnaire which polled 109 maritime lecturers and 154 maritime industry stakeholders found that –
- Lecturers are well educated professionally and educationally
- The majority (71%) of maritime lecturers have worked at sea
- Half of the sea experienced lecturers have worked as a senior officer
- More than half of the lecturers have undertaken none or little training on how to teach
- Lecturers could develop their teaching by refreshing their practical expertise on board ships
Recommendations from this report include -
- Linking up of teaching with daily practice on board ships
- Employing a majority of lecturers who have had sea experience, preferably at senior officer level
- Increasing lecturer’s knowledge of educational and pedagogical techniques
- Improving contact and collaboration between maritime education institutions and stakeholders in the maritime sector
- Ensuring that the majority of lecturers are specialists who teach a few subjects and have in-depth knowledge of these areas
The summary report can be downloaded here
The full report is available from www.maricomp-web.eu
