For all of us, there comes a time in life when you have to cede to the younger generation. This might involve enlisting the offspring to manage a smartphone installation or getting a bright young thing on the phone to talk you through configuring your home network. Skills evolve and, despite our best efforts, we cannot always keep up. We might be too set in our ways or we simply can't get our heads around a new-fangled concept. If you are anything like me, you tend to come away from these youthful encounters having discovered something new and transformative, as well as feeling energised by their competence and comfort with new technology. It seems as if Maritime UK has also locked on to the benefits of this kind of ideological exchange with its Maritime Masters programme. The scheme focuses on strengthening links with British universities that offer maritime-related courses, putting forward Masters students to partner with industry on research proposals connected to contemporary issues for the UK maritime sector. Those individuals who make the grade are then required to present their findings to an industry audience who then vote 'X factor'-style for a winner.
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