World Maritime University, the education and research arm of the International Maritime Organization, is best placed to offer such a program. WMU’s educational expertise, the highly regarded expertise of its lecturers and itsclose relationshipwith the customer, guarantees the effective achievement of the Program’s objectives.

Unlike the traditional “open-enrolment” type of executive courses, this EDP is a “customer-specific” program which is specially designed and tailored to meet the needs of a particular organization.

A close relationship is established between the customer and the educator right from the initial design stage. Joint efforts are made to ensure that the problems encountered by the organization are thoroughly analyzed and the key issues clearly identified. This allows for the educational objectives to be well formulated, course Programs well drafted and the most suitable teaching staff well selected.

Participants are also carefully chosen by the customer organization. Their past experience, potential plans, English language skills and personal motivation are all factors to be considered. The program Director, at the customer’s invitation, is to be involved in all stages of the process to ensure that the quality of the learning is maintained and the objectives are effectively achieved.

Where there are a number of specific topic areas which the customer wishes to have discussed in greater depth,these topics are assigned to the participants in working groups. During the course, dedicated time is reserved for these topics to be discussed with the experts. During the final unit of the program, the participants work in small groups to write a report based on their class discussions with the experts as well as on the new ideas they have acquired and developed during the entire course.