Specialist training services

Tender description

To provide academic support to the Royal College of Defence Studies. The Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS) provides an eleven-month course at post-graduate level in international strategic studies. It focuses on security, stability and prosperity at the grand strategic level of governmental decisions, both nationally and within the international community. The course follows the academic year, running from September to July. The Members (as students are called), predominantly but not only from military backgrounds, represent a broad experience base and are selected for their potential to reach the highest ranks of senior leadership and advisory posts in their own countries. The focus of study on the course is practical rather than theoretical. The RCDS' mission is to prepare selected senior military officers and government officials, as well as appropriate individuals from the private sector, from the United Kingdom and elsewhere, for senior leadership and management roles by developing strategic understanding and the capacity for strategic thinking through rigorous analysis of the international security agenda; the levers that provide for security, stability and prosperity; and the key tenets of leadership at the national and international strategic level. The course examines the challenges and opportunities across a broad spectrum of activity in the international arena, whilst providing the Members with the tools for successful strategic analysis and formulation.