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addition to sending its personnel on undergraduate and postgraduate courses at universities in the UK and abroad, the Armed Forces also boast their own Defence Academy. The Academy is a merging together of a number of military training institutions: the Royal College of Defence Studies, the Joint Services Command and Staff College, the Defence College of Management and Technology, the Advanced Research and Assessment Group, and the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre. It has three 'strategic partners', King’s College London, Serco Defence and Aerospace, and Cranfield University, who provide academic and facilities support.
addition to sending its personnel on undergraduate and postgraduate courses at universities in the UK and abroad, the Armed Forces also boast their own Defence Academy. The Academy is a merging together of a number of military training institutions: the Royal College of Defence Studies, the Joint Services Command and Staff College, the Defence College of Management and Technology, the Advanced Research and Assessment Group, and the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre. It has three 'strategic partners', King’s College London, Serco Defence and Aerospace, and Cranfield University, who provide academic and facilities support.The Defence Academy calls itself UK Defence’s higher educational establishment. As such, an inherent role is the development of intellectual capital: firstly, in relation to the conduct of campaigns and operations – it is, therefore a key component of operational capability; secondly, in relation to how Defence operates in the international security domain, and the way Defence works in Government; and thirdly, in relation to the management of Defence. (English grammar is not on the curriculum, however.)
The stuff on the website certainly sounds impressive. Who would doubt that the Academy produces high quality course graduates who are fit-for-purpose – intellectually agile, militarily adept, technologically aware, with the expertise that meets the evolving needs of Defence – and who collectively are recognised as providing a significant enhancement to operational capability? All sounds pretty scary.
The stuff on the website certainly sounds impressive. Who would doubt that the Academy produces high quality course graduates who are fit-for-purpose – intellectually agile, militarily adept, technologically aware, with the expertise that meets the evolving needs of Defence – and who collectively are recognised as providing a significant enhancement to operational capability? All sounds pretty scary.
Link> MoD: Defence Academy
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