2022 PHILIPPINE RESPONSE - Report - Page 58
KEY AREA 1
Maritime Higher Education Institutions
SHORTCOMING 3
Therefore, the Philippines’ authorities do
not ensure that the programmes delivered
by the MHEIs are fully structured and
include the methods and media of delivery,
procedures, and course material as
necessary to achieve the prescribed
standards of competence, as required by
the STCW Convention and Code.
The following deficiencies were found in the course syllabi
developed by the visited MHEIs and approved by CHED and
MARINA:
Grievance 4
Inconsistent teaching and examination methods,
facilities and equipment
Table A-II/2 of Section A-II/2 of the STCW Code requires the use
of stress-calculating equipment in its column 3 as one of the
methods for demonstrating the competence “Plan and ensure
safe loading, stowage, securing, care during the voyage and
unloading of cargoes”. However, the syllabus of the course
‘SEAM 122 delivered by one of the visited MHEI does not
include the use of stress-calculating equipment when it
addresses the KUP on ‘trim, stability and stress’ specified in
the Table A-II/2 of the STCW Code. As the course syllabus
does not include the use of stress-calculating equipment,
the competence “Plan and ensure safe loading, stowage,
securing, care during the voyage and unloading of
cargoes” is not achieved.
Hence, the level of competence required by the Sections A-II/1
and A-II/2 of the STCW Code is not achieved.
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