我国高等航海院校是培养高级航海专门人才的摇篮和基地,在新的世纪到来之际所面临的重要任务就是如何培养出适应国际航运事业发展的高级专业人才。对航海专科教育而言,由于其培养目标、专业性质和社会职业岗位的要求等都具有鲜明的高等职业技术教育的特点,因此,这种教育的关键 China’s higher navigation colleges and universities are the cradle and base for training advanced maritime professionals. The important task facing the new century is to train senior professionals who adapt to the development of international shipping. For navigation specialist education, because of its training objectives, professional qualifications and social job requirements and so has a distinct characteristics of higher vocational and technical education, therefore, the key to this education