RAF to learn from Intuition

Irish professional education specialist Intuition has embarked on an innovative eLearning programme with the Royal Air Force Police (RAFP) following a strategic review of the force's roles and responsibilities.

Intuition was established in 1985, supplying computer-based training to the financial markets. It has grown to become a provider of e-learning to a broad range of markets and today focuses on financial services, medicine/life sciences and government/public sector.

The contract was awarded to Intuition under the auspices of the Defence Training Review, announced by Britain's Secretary of State for Defence Geoff Hoon in 2001.

With an annual training budget of £4.2 bn (€6.14bn), the Ministry Of Defence (MOD) is the largest single training organisation in Britain.

Under the programme, trainees have access to over 10 hours of simulation-based training, all of which is accessed from their normal place of work.

Personnel undertaking the course will initially be examined to check understanding and will then have a final exam to check that they have assimilated their new core responsibilities.

Paul Healy, Head of Public Sector Clients at Intuition, said the deployment of eLearning techniques would result in increased efficiencies and cost savings for the RAF.

"Studies have shown that technology-based instruction significantly reduces costs by 30-60%. It also reduces the time to achieve instructional objectives by 30%".