Welcome to the Maritime Skills Alliance
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The Maritime Skills Alliance designs and promotes qualifications and apprenticeships for the UK’s maritime sector. We have developed a suite of interlocking standards and qualifications – MSQs, “Maritime Studies Qualifications” - which enable employees to progress both within their specialism and between sectors.
You can find a complete and regularly updated list of all our Units and Qualifications on the Qualifications page.
What do we do? We:
- develop qualifications and apprenticeships which suit the needs of the sector
- maintain a suite of National Occupational Standards
- work to secure a good range of high quality training provision across the country
- champion skills matters for the maritime sector
- work with a wide range of other bodies across the UK, especially national governments and their agencies, to further our aims
You can sign up for monthly Newsletter in the box to the right. Click here for our November 2019 Newsletter.
The MSA is not-for-profit (a Company Limited by Guarantee - company number 7939255), funded by its members.
Latest news
MSA welcomes next steps on the Maritime Skills Commission
The Maritime Skills Alliance is very pleased with the Government’s announcements this week about the Maritime Skills Commission.
Chairman Bill Walworth said: “This is really good news. The Government has taken on to the next stage the ambitions it set in its Maritime 2050 strategy, so we can start turning those ambitions into real value.
I’m also very pleased to see the work of the MSA recognised in a commitment that we will be part of the small group charged with shaping the Commission.
More ... Press Release on the MSC.
More ... Iain Mackinnon's speech to the Maritime 50 Symposium.