Water-tight or sinking? A consideration of the standards of the contemporary assessment practices underpinning seafarer licence examinations and their implications for employers
This article draws upon recent, detailed, research into the assessment practices of six seafarer labour supply countries in connection with the issue of licences. It outlines the different forms of assessment practiced and includes the relatively recent introduction of computer-based
assessment in some states. In considering the validity and appropriateness of the assessment procedures, currently in use, the paper references, and presents, the views of a sample of employers who regularly recruit seafarers to work upon internationally trading deep-sea vessels.
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Seafarers International Research Centre, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, 52 Park Place Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK 2: School of Business, IT and Logistics, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Publication date: 01 January 2011
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