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Changes to PMET rules
By Lynise Anderson RAAFSPS Distance Learning Flight
Volume 49, No. 11, June 28, 2007 |
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PMET PRIORITY: From July 1, students who have completed the relevant distance-learning component will be given priority on PMET residential courses. Pictured is 324CSS administration officer FLTLT Cathy Stamp on the job at RMAF Base Butterworth.
Photo by CPL Mark McConnell |
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RAAF Base Wagga’s School of Postgraduate Studies has announced some important changes to the Professional Military Education and Training (PMET) requirements for promotion.
From July 1, priority for attendance on PMET residential courses will be given to students who have completed the relevant distance-learning component.
The changes have been necessary because of unsatisfactory impacts on residential courses.
PMET includes a concept of flexible delivery of training to reduce the length of residential courses.
However, with PMET being seen as the most effective way of delivering training, residential courses are often seen as the preferred way to deliver new training initiatives. This has impacted significantly on the amount and type of training that has to be delivered.
To alleviate the amount of content covered on residential courses, students are provided with reading packages (in addition to flexible learning modules) that must be completed prior to course commencement. These reading packages include assignment work for some courses.
The school believes there should also be a logical flow between the flexible delivery modules and the residential courses, and the learning required at each rank level. This approach will provide a link between the course content delivered on one course and that delivered on the others, as well as provide greater relevance to the course content being delivered by the flexible delivery modules.
By using flexible delivery modules and pre-residential course reading packages, much of the burden currently being placed on the residential courses will be eased.
The PMET changes will be developed and implemented over the period July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008. In the interim, priority for residential courses will be given to students who complete the relevant distance-learning component.
Any shortfall in meeting minimum student requirements for residential courses will be met by students who have not completed the distance-learning component. These students will be individually managed by DLF staff to ensure that they meet the requirements they need to attend the residential course.
After July 1, 2008, the distance-learning component will be a compulsory requirement for personnel attending residential courses.
Following a 12-month transition period, students will be required to complete the Communication Skills (CS1, CS2, CS3, CS4) and Staff Skills (SS1, SS2) courses before they can attend their relevant residential courses. |
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