Case study transcripts
The Royal Navy
Commodore Campbell Christie: Training and education is where we live and breathe. If we’re not on operations, if we’re not fighting then it’s training. It’s absolutely vital to our business. And we take in about two and a half thousand ratings, sailors, every year and around about eight hundred Royal Marines every year into our new entry training establishments, and we’re absolutely committed to give them the best education we possibly can.
Leading Steward Sanders: Well as well as professional training, I’ve also had educational training on board, in English and maths, of which I’ve uh, achieved basic skills Level 2. Um, so if I want to uh, progress now on the race in the ranks I can do that through my Education Officer who is based on board.
It’s made me more confident within myself, because being a leading hand in the Navy you obviously take command of other, of people below yourself and, uh, it’s nice to have the education skills behind you so you can obviously help them as they’re coming up through the ranks as well.
But the Navy is a good place to be if you want to learn and, uh, improve your education.
Commodore Campbell Christie: The Navy’s going to get from Skills Pledge I think two things: there’s going to be the investment in the individual, and that’s all the through-life learning that we’re offering to the individual from joining, uh, the basic skills that are developed in our new entry training establishments, which are a sort of springboard through to apprenticeships that we offer, foundation and then beyond that.
But the other benefit that we’re expecting to get is wider recognition of this for society.
