MARITIME cadets, or seafarers in training, represent the initial stage of a seafaring career. They undergo a four-year bachelor's degree in marine transportation or marine engineering, courses that here in the Philippines are usually stringent and regimented that they make one feel almost like studying in a military school.
With the global shipping community setting its eyes on the Philippines' quality of education and training, partly since the country provides more than a third of the world's seafarers, schools and the government are pressed to deliver an education that is at par with international maritime standards. Meanwhile, cadets are perceived as a mere blank slate until they are trained enough to become a statistic in the world's seafaring sector. Until then, they remain to be a faceless, long white line.
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