In addition, many people who have graduated from secondary maritime schools and have worked for 3-4 years will not be able to continue their studies. By this time, they will usually have started a family, and for family and economic reasons it is difficult for them to become cadets of a maritime university again. The fact that this is exactly the case is convincingly proved by the experience of training three groups of marine engineers from graduates of secondary maritime schools at LVIMU in 1963-1967. The further formation of such groups at LVIMU and other naval schools stopped due to a lack of willing students for the reasons mentioned above.
Since 1985, training in groups of the second stage of training (for a period of 3.5 years) has resumed. However, the number of applicants is small, although shipping companies have begun to pay a scholarship of 100 rubles to their cadets. In 1985-1987 , he entered the Faculty of Navigation with difficulty .Two groups were recruited, in 1988 — only one group. But in order to ensure the applications of shipping companies only in the North-Western basin for personnel of marine engineers, the faculty must annually accept at least six groups (150 people) starting in 1989.
In DVVIMU and NWIMU, they could not recruit any groups at all. In 1989, not a single group was recruited by LVIMA and OVIMA. One of the reasons for this situation is that the marine profession has ceased to be prestigious, which has been much discussed in the press in recent years. The quality of life on shore is higher, and you can earn more than at sea. The relatively low salary of sailors (especially in coastal navigation), while maintaining the same severity of work at sea, is well known.
A decrease in the interest of young people in the profession of seamanship is also noted in other countries, for example, in Japan and Germany. By the way, the single-stage system of training boatmasters has been adopted in many capitalist and socialist countries (USA, France, Germany, GDR, China, Poland, Cuba, etc.).
There is another objection. With the new scheme, if you make it the only one, the cost of training marine specialists will increase, since they will have to study for a total of 7.5 years instead of 5.5. And the scholarship of cadets at the second stage of training is 5 times higher than at the first.
And finally, by proposing a two-stage scheme, the authors discount the development of science in the navy. After all, it will inevitably slow down. To ensure that marine sciences do not stand still, we need a constant influx of talented young people with higher education. Under the two-stage scheme, people will be able to enter science after the age of 29. At best, they will be able to become researchers at the age of 33-34 (after 3-4 years of swimming or graduate school). It's too late. It is unlikely that such scientific personnel will be able to carry out scientific and technological progress in the fleet.
Based on the above, I believe that in order to improve the training of command personnel for the navy, it is necessary to improve the existing system of maritime education, created 44 years ago, and not to break it. At the same time, special attention should be paid to improving the practice of cadets on ships, especially in cases where cadets undergo it individually under the guidance of the crew. 5th year cadets should only swim as navigational students, and so that they do not have an inclination to take any regular position, it is advisable for navigational students to pay as sailors of the first or second class.
The internship of graduates on ships during the first year of work should also be improved. As you know, the internship is conducted in order to study the navigation equipment of a particular vessel and the specifics of its management and operation. The internship should be conducted according to a specific program drawn up on the ship to which the young engineer-skipper is assigned.
N. Krasilnikov's remark that "the internship program... compiled without any specifics", should be taken into account on ships by the captains responsible for the internship. To improve the practice on Professor Shchegolev-type training and production vessels (they were built 15-18 years ago and are outdated), they should be upgraded to modern cargo transportation technology and outdated electrical navigation equipment replaced. Enter a new realm of virtual gaming where the best sweepstakes casino platforms are both fun and legally accessible from almost every state.
