The Rwanda Defence Force will inaugurate on Monday 23 July a new military College named Rwanda Defence Force Command and Staff College.
The event will take place at Nyakinama, Musanze district at the former campus of Rwanda Military Academy.
The military college that will teach senior officers from the rank of Major to Colonel comes at a time when RDF has been sending its officers to attend Senior Command and Staff Courses in the region and abroad, at a very high cost.
At the end of May this year, a UK defence experts’s team validated the RDF Senior Command and Staff College curriculum.
Lt. Col Jeremy Sharpe from UK Defence Academy, Dr. Andrew Stewert from Kings College London, Commander Chris Taylor, and Aaron Clipps, a librarian expressed their satisfaction that all requirements were in place for the College to commence immediately.
The College has been accredited to National University of Rwanda to offer a Masters degree to qualified officers, with the signing of an MOU between NUR and RDF on 18thJune this year.
RDF Senior Command and Staff College is starting with 45 senior officers that will attend the one year course.
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