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Labour Market Research For the Merchant Navy Training Board, we have just started a short project to explore the reality of the onboard training stage of an officer trainee’s training, with a view to making recommendations for how MNTB and others can enhance the quality of that experience. For Glasgow College of Nautical Studies and the Maritime Skills Alliance, we researched the supply of, and demand for, maritime qualifications in Scotland (Click here to download a copy of our report). For the Merchant Navy Training Board, we managed research into hospitality occupational roles and functions on board cruise ships, ferries and 'super yachts'. The outcome was a list of all hospitality roles, the identification of hospitality-related functions specific to the maritime sector and an analysis of qualification provision. For the Chamber of Shipping and NUMAST, the officers’ union (now Nautilus International) we produced a major report detailing the nature of the employment market for junior officers in the Merchant Navy. The report was sent by both parties to the Minister of Shipping. Click here to download our report. For the Maritime Skills Alliance, we managed a major project to map occupational roles and functions undertaken across the maritime sector (Merchant Navy, Ports, Marine Leisure, Sea Fishing and Maritime Search and Rescue). We produced an action plan to address gaps in National Occupational Standards and qualifications. For the Maritime Skills Alliance, we produced a Labour Market Assessment, which provided the first comprehensive skills review of the Maritime Sector. In a subsequent project we produced a labour market assessment of the Marine Leisure Industry, to supplement this first assessment, and we are currently providing further updating and gap-filling in a project supporting the development of the sector’s Sector Qualifications Strategy. For the Maritime Skills Alliance, we surveyed a range of organisations across the sector to determine whether there was sufficient interest in a generic Foundation Degree for the sector. Click here to see our report. For the Northwest Development Agency, we developed a Skills Action Plan for the maritime sector, which fed into the establishment of Maritime North West. For British Ports Industry Training (National Training Organisation), we undertook a feasibility study in to the possibility of a new Level 4 (management) qualification. Structural advice on how to relate to the Skills for Business Network For a consortium led by the Merchant Navy Training Board, with Ports Skills and Safety Ltd, the Seafish Industry Authority, the British Marine Federation and the Shipbuilders and Shiprepairers Association, we considered the feasibility of establishing a Sector Skills Council for the maritime sector. When the group agreed that this would not be feasible, we researched an alternative approach which became the Maritime Skills Alliance. Click here to view our report to the Steering Group. In two further projects, we researched the possibilities for the MSA “buddying” with one of the Sector Skills Councils, and (jointly for Skills for Logistics), explored how a link with that body might be made. |
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Last updated on 06 November 2009 |
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