Continuing Professional Development for Mariners
Ergun DEMİRELScientific Bulletin of Naval Academy
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Abstract
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is now a part of our life in exponentially changing posture of the world. We are living in disrupted development which requires to adopt new technologies in our profession as well as to support emerging new professions. It is important for professionals to keep up with technologic developments and enable themselves to adopt challenging requirements. All the leading parties of maritime industry should understand and evaluate the future of the maritime business and advice the Maritime Education and Training (MET) and research institutes to prepare CPD programmes for mariners. More important the maritime industry should decide their requirement for CPD and manage themselves to get benefit from the CPD to secure their business ensuring their employers’ career development to adapt to challenging requirements. The purpose of this research is to evaluate what kind of initiatives should be started to achieve a reliable and sustainable CPD system for...
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