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The Australian Defence Force (ADF) encourages you to continue studying throughout your service career, from gaining new trade qualifications to studying for a medical degree, as we recognise the benefits and opportunities further study and training can bring you.
Once you've passed initial training and have gone on to complete your category training, there'll be plenty of opportunities for continued career development. In addition to specialist training courses, we also operate promotion courses that prepare you for a higher rank and the responsibilities and duties that go along with it. You can choose to build on your existing specialisation through additional training and study, or you can even be approved to specialise in another field.
The Defence Assisted Study Scheme allows you to identify a course you want to study and receive time off from service to complete classes and sit exams. Depending on the course, you can receive a part reimbursement payment, of up to 75% of all compulsory fees. This doesn't have to be a course run by the ADF, it can be any university course that has some relevance to your job.
The ADF will offer fully funded study interstate or overseas for a year, so you might get the chance to complete that Master’s Degree you've always wanted to, in a completely new environment.
The Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies offers a Defence and Strategic Studies Course (DSSC) intended for senior service and civilian officers, of primarily Colonel equivalent rank. The DSSC provides advanced policy related skills, high-level corporate leadership and strategic decision-making skills, and in-depth knowledge of national and international defence issues of strategic importance.
The Australian Command and Staff Course (ACSC), is for middle-ranking officers and prepares them for command and staff appointments in single service, joint and integrated environments. The ACSC provides education in command, leadership and management, strategic and Australian defence studies, staff skills and joint operations. This is complemented by service-specific education in operational war-fighting, management, leadership and doctrine.
The aim of the Career Transition Assistance Scheme (CTAS) is to provide members of the ADF who have applied for a discharge, resign or transfer from their service, with assistance to facilitate their transition to civilian employment. The scheme does not provide members with specific employment on discharge; rather, it provides them with tools to help them market their skills and experience in the civilian world. So they leave the ADF secure in the knowledge that they will be able to find civilian employment.
The Civil Schooling Scheme (CSS), relates to post-secondary level studies and graduate medical studies that are sponsored by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The CSS recognises that the Air Force cannot train particular members to be qualified in certain professional, scientific, technical, trade and other fields within the Service. Select members will be able to attend courses through the CSS at approved universities or similar civilian tertiary institutions, in order to satisfy specific Service requirements. As this scheme is a great opportunity for further study, selection is competitive. The Graduate Medical Scheme (GMS) allows selected members with appropriate qualifications, who meet university selection criteria, to be sponsored through a graduate medical course at the medical faculty of an approved Australian university.
The ADF has plans to introduce a ‘Defence Accreditation and Articulation Advisory Body' which provides for accreditation of nationally recognised tertiary education qualifications. So credit will be awarded on the basis of previously completed study and/or higher education qualifications. We aim to help members achieve maximum recognition of professional military studies, experience and skills, without the need for them to take unreasonable amounts of study in their own time, or to fund study beyond their means.
This program also provides nationally recognised academic qualifications for this credited study. So members increase their professional and intellectual credibility and have enhanced mobility in the workplace, with the ability to transfer skills between the ADF and civilian employment.
Training in languages other than English is provided to ADF personnel who are deployed overseas on military operations, intelligence missions and other such appointments. The aim of this training is to make sure our personnel have the language skills necessary to perform their job functions. Tuition fees and training costs, such as travel and accommodation, are covered by the approving authority.
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