IMarEST learning award


IMarEST’s learning arm MLA College has won the Gold award for the “Best Online Distance Learning Programme” at the Learning Tehcnologies Awards 2016 in London recently for their submission, “Delivering degrees to seafarers without internet”. The panel of independent academics judging the submission were impressed with the way MLA College combined innovative technology with traditional academic tutoring that was personalised to each student, enabling a whole new generation of seafarers to gain a higher qualification. The Awards gathered 800 people to celebrate the best learning technologies across the world, with shortlisted entries from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, US, Turkey, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, Spain and Italy.