In this paper, the authors would like to introduce the "TOP-DOWN" design for higher maritime education. Regarding how to improve the students’ abilities to meet the requirements of the global maritime transport development, we have changed our education plan from teaching the students with the knowledge to train them with their abilities according to the basic abilities that we realized by studying and analyzing the human resource requirements for officers and engineers in the area of global maritime transport of officers and engineers.
Keywords: TOP-DOWN design, training, abilities.

Saturday 11th of October 2008