Re-electionist Senator Joel Villanueva on Monday, May 2 asked the Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) to focus on ensuring the quality of Philippine maritime graduates for better employability and not on curtailing access to maritime schools. Villanueva, chairman of the Senate labor committee,...
Maritime Higher Education Institutions (MHEIs) were instructed to submit their updated syllabi for “evaluation purposes” before this month ends. (CHED/FB) The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) issued Joint CHED-MARINA Marina Advisory No. 1 series...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Monday warned that Chinese seafarers, whose deployment in international vessels has shown a significant increase last year, will soon beat Filipino seafarers in numbers. Locsin sounded the alarm bell in reaction to reports that over 120,000 Chinese...