Applicants who wish to train on the competition rules required by the STCW Convention and must have the technical knowledge required and must be skilled in the art upon which will conduct the training. For example, applicants who intend to teach navigation should have experience as mates, while those who wish to teach marine machines must be qualified officer’s machines.
This model course assumes that candidates are suitably qualified in the technical aspects of their subjects. It would also be useful to at least some members of the group of applicants had had some experience as a teacher.