Annual General Assembly 2003 - Alexandria

Session 9 WGI

ISO 9000:2000 Quality Management System and Problem Based Learning in MET

Ender ASYALI, Okan TUNA, A. Güldem CERIT

Dokuz Eylül University School of Maritime Business and Management, Kaynaklar Campus - 35160 Izmir, TURKEY
E-mail: ender.asyali@deu.edu.tr, otuna@deu.edu.tr, gcerit@tnn.net

ABSTRACT

Seafarers are the core element of the shipping industry and demand for competent and well educated seafarers has been growing. Due to the global nature of the shipping industry, structured, standardized, internationally accepted, monitored and assessed education and training are vital elements to meet this demand and expectations of the shipping industry.

The STCW convention, adopted by IMO in 1978 and revised in 1995, defines standards for training, certification and watchkeeping for seafarers. According to the STCW 95 convention, all MET shall be monitored by the administration through a quality management system.

STCW requires that all activities relating to training, assessment of competence, certificates, endorsement and revalidation are continuously monitored through a quality standards system and the STCW Code A-I/8 states that an independent evaluation should be conducted at periods of not less than five years.

Dokuz Eylül University School of Maritime Business and Management has been implementing ISO 9000:2000 quality management system for three years in order to meet the requirements of STCW Code A-I/8. With regard to that fact, a detailed process has been applied to all stages of the education and training. In addition to that, School has started to apply Problem Based Learning (PBL) system. PBL is a learning method based on the principle of using problems as a starting point for the acquisition and integration of new knowledge.

This paper attempts to introduce the quality management system and its application within the Problem Based Learning system concerning the STCW Code A-I/8 requirements in School of Maritime Business and Management.

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