2022 PHILIPPINE RESPONSE - Report - Page 110
KEY AREA 2
MONITORING, SUPERVISION AND EVALUATION OF TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT
Regulation
I/6
of
the
STCW
Convention requires that the training
is conducted, monitored, evaluated
and supervised and is provided with
the media of delivery and procedures
as are necessary to achieve the
prescribed standard of competence.
The term ‘carrying capacity’ is
defined as the maximum number of
students for each of the defined
specific facilities available at a given
MHEI and used for training activities
during programme courses in a given
semester. The JCMMC No 1 of 2019
Section 32 requires all MHEIs to
establish such ‘carrying capacity’.
However, the EMSA inspectors found
that the carrying capacity in two of
the visited MHEIs was not consistent
with the number of students
admitted to and enrolled in the
programmes and one MHEI had not
established any carrying capacity:
•
The carrying capacities for the
navigation chart laboratory and for
the navigation simulator at the
PNTC Colleges were 480 and 264
students, respectively, considering
that the students using those
facilities were registered in the
relevant courses of the first and
second
programme
year.
However, the PNTC Colleges
enrolled a total of 838 students
for the first and second years of
the
BSMT
programme,
respectively, in the previous
academic year, which clearly
exceeded the above carrying
capacities.
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Although the carrying capacities
calculated
by
the
Baliwag
Maritime
Academy
for
the
automatic control laboratory and
for the diesel engine laboratory
was 22 and 8 students respectively,
the students’ groups assigned to
those facilities included 27 and 20
students, respectively.
The effect of not respecting the
established carrying capacity
was that the students ended up
using the automation equipment
for training for only one hour
instead of the three hours
required by the course syllabus.
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The
Our
Lady
of
Fatima
University had not calculated the
carrying capacity for any of the
facilities and equipment used for
training at all.
Hence, MARINA and CHED do not
ensure, through their supervision,
that the ‘carrying capacities’ are
calculated and consistent with the
number of students admitted and
enrolled
to
courses.
Therefore,
MARINA and CHED, do not fully
ensure that the training is conducted,
monitored
and
supervised,
as
required by Regulation I/6 of the
STCW Convention and Section A-I/6.1
of the STCW Code and that the
training is provided with the media of
delivery and procedures as are
necessary to achieve the prescribed
standard of competence, as required
by Section A-I/6.1.1.
