2022 PHILIPPINE RESPONSE - Report - Page 188
KEY AREA 5
ON-BOARD TRAINING
The EMSA team identified cases of
students who took more than ten years
to graduate after completing the three
years of studies. This lack of provisions
was recurrent, since the EMSA
inspection in 2013 identified students
who had completed their on-board
training 22 years after completion of the
theoretical part of the MET programme.
In 2017, the EMSA team found that
CHED had not yet established any
policy in this regard although the team
identified cases of students having
completed their on-board training
more than ten years after the
theoretical studies.
Such assessment of competence does
not cover all competences. The
achievement by a candidate for
certification of all the standards of
competence required for a given CoC
can only be fully verified by the
combined assessment provided by the
evaluations
conducted
during
education and training, and by the
assessment of competence held after
the on-board training and right before
certification.
This is important as the students
eventually are certified but not in line
with
the
meanwhile
adopted
amendments to the STCW Convention
and Code. In case candidates complete
the onboard training after new
amendments have been adopted, they
are not certified in line with the
regulations in force at the time of the
issue of their CoC. This is because the
assessment of competence that they
are subjected after completing the onboard training does not cover all
competences and required training as
established in Tables A-II/1, A-II/2, A-III/1
and A-III/2.
Hence, the lack of procedures for
those students who completed the
on-board training six years or more
after
having
completed
their
theoretical studies may not ensure
that the on- board training is
structured as necessary to achieve
the
prescribed
standard
of
competence.
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