Maldives Customs Service has commenced “Diploma in Customs Management” course, in collaboration with Centre for Customs and Excise Studies (CCES), University of Canberra, Australia. A special ceremony was held at Customs Building, on 2 October 2011, to inaugurate this course.
Commissioner General of Customs Mr. Mohamed Aswanofficiated the ceremony as the chief guest, attended by Deputy Commissioners of Customs, executives and participants of the course. The Associate Director of CCES, Canberra, Mr. Stephan Muller also was present at the ceremony.
Thirty five officers from MCS are participating in this 2 year long course.
The goals of the course are to establish a learning culture within the MCS at the operational level, to provide operational staff the opportunity to obtain an accredited tertiary qualification related to Customs Competencies locally within the Maldives working environment and to build operational capacity within MCS.
In this regard, the course is designed to enhance the knowledge of operational staff in the role of customs in revenue collection, trade facilitation, border management, to avail operational staff of MCS insights into international best practices and bench marks related to regulating and administering international trade, to develop skills relating to modern approaches in enforcing trade related regulations , to introduce operational staff to different facets of Maritime law and to assist operational staff to apply theoretical knowledge in solving organizational issues in an actual work setting through work related projects.
The course consists of 8 modules, listed below.
1. Customs Management
2. International Trade Terms
3. Governance and Integrity
4. The Revised Kyoto Convention
5. Operational Risk Management
6. Introduction to Maritime Law
7. Managing in the Customs Environment
8. Workplace related project
Instructors from CCES, University of Canberra will be facilitating the modules.