What do we do?
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.
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
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The MSA is not-for-profit (a Company Limited by Guarantee - company number 7939255), funded by its members.
Useful links
Brexit
End of the Transition period: BEIS advice to business home page
Government guidance for employers which want to recruit from outside the UK after 1 January 2021
Guidance on how English language skills are assessed for Tiers 1 & 2 of the Points-Based System
Guidance for UK nationals living in the EU
Points-Based Immigration System: the employer campaign
Settled Status for EU citizens working in the UK
Coronavirus
Covid-19 Redundancy and Retraining Bursary Fund
3 November 2020