Commission on Higher Education (CHED) chairman Prospero de Vera III on Tuesday mentioned extra personnel are wanted to observe maritime establishments throughout the nation.
De Vera made the remark as he mentioned there’s steady analysis of maritime faculties to examine if they’re compliant with requirements following the European Union (EU’s) recognition of the certificates for seafarers issued by the Philippines.
“Kailangan namin dagdag na tao kasi marami. That’s why kami ni Secretary Bautista will have to look for additional allies to help monitor compliance kasi hindi naman ganoon kadami ang staff ng CHED. Hindi rin gano’n kadami ang staff ng MARINA,” de Vera mentioned at a Palace briefing.
(We want so as to add extra folks as a result of there are lots of [maritime institutions that have to be monitored]. [Transport] Secretary [Jaime] Bautista and I should search for extra allies to assist monitor compliance as a result of CHED doesn’t have a lot employees. The employees of MARINA can be not that large.)
De Vera talked about that the federal government already shut down 15 maritime applications for being non-compliant with the requirements.
“We closed down 15 maritime programs already. If it’s true that everyone is compliant with standards, then we should not have been able to close 15 maritime programs,” the CHED chairperson mentioned.
“We’re very strict. The technical panel and our technical evaluators have gone through the program and we closed 15 over the past year and a half. So there are programs that are non-compliant,” he added.
The CHED earlier mentioned it is able to coordinate with maritime faculties and the Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) to implement reforms recommended by the EU to make sure that Filipino seafarers can proceed to work on overseas vessels.
De Vera reiterated {that a} five-year moratorium on the opening of recent maritime applications was imposed to ensure the assessment of all maritime faculties might be undertaken earlier than including new ones.
For his half, MARINA administrator Hernani Fabia mentioned there are nonetheless points which should be attended to regardless of the EU’s recognition of the certificates.
Fabia mentioned these embody issues on supervision of manning and coaching, evaluation of competence, in addition to design and approval availability, amongst others. —KG, GMA Integrated News
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