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Confirmed the marine closing of two training courses of Philippine PMI
deficiencies regarding the standards Anticipate
November 22, 2011
The Philippine Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has confirmed the closing of two private training courses marine, the BS Marine Transportation (BSMT) and the BS Marine Engineering (GSMarE) held from PMI Colleges (former Philippine Maritime Institute) in its campuses of Manila and Quezon City, as - the president of the CHED, Patricia B. Licuanan has explained - their programs do not satisfy the standards of marine formation of the Philippines, requirement - it has specified - than commission CHED has the obligation to safeguard and to preserve for protecting the appreciation of the international industry of the shipping in confronts of marine the Philippine ones.
The representatives of the CHED have remembered moreover that PMI is catalogued by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) between the 15 schools of marine formation that anticipate deficiencies regarding the standards of formation.
The closing of the programs has provoked the protest of the students of the two course, that they would pile to about 12.000 units, but the CHED has replied that in the Philippines 12 ready schools of marine formation are others to receive them.
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