Welcome to the Maritime Skills Alliance

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

The MSA is a Company Limited by Guarantee (company number 7939255), funded by its members.

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