At the time, such aspirations floated far on the horizon for the young man, a horizon that keeps on moving with the sad reality of measly resources. There was no stopping the young man thereon, not poverty or the lack of academic guidance. “Life was too difficult back then to even pursue my first love, the military training,” Chito recalled. Their encounters would continue until the young man worked for the Bureau of Higher Education (CHEd) as the head secretariat of the Technical Panel for Maritime Education (TPME). For more than a decade, our maritime education and training (MET) are anchored on regulatory instead of developmental framework.

Source: Manila Times March 10, 2020 17:15 UTC