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ADJUTANT GENERAL’S CORPS
25th ANNIVERSARY

Educational and Training Services

Branch

The origins of Army Transition
Education can be traced
back to at least the English As with the rest of the Army, the Branch
Civil War; in the 1660s has experienced several upheavals
in response to external events. The
some regiments engaged transition to becoming part of the
masters to instruct their Adjutant General’s Corps resulted in
soldiers and their offspring. the loss of the ‘two-star’ post, replaced
with a ‘one-star’ Director, accompanied

Brigadier J M Macfarlane
Army Educational Corps

1920 saw the creation of an Army
Educational Corps which, in 1946,
was subsequently granted the prefix
‘Royal’ and became known as the
Royal Army Educational Corps. In 1992
it was amalgamated into the newly
Major General C A Kinvig
formed Adjutant General’s Corps as Brigadier C F P Horsfall
Corps of Army the Educational and Training Services
Schoolmasters Branch. by a physical move to Upavon and a
change of name from Director Army
Education to Director Educational and
The recognition was that (as observed
by the French historian Revel) ‘a good Training Services (Army). A period
physique, good health, and a correct of stability followed before another
bearing’ by itself was insufficient; change of location, to Andover, in 2010
rather, development in the cognitive and a change of name to Directorate
and conceptual domains were also of Educational Capability in 2012. In
required. This disparate regimental- typical military fashion, this was not
based system eventually gave way to last for too long and, in response to
to the creation of the Corps of Army the 2015 Army Command Review, the
Schoolmasters in 1845. Directorate was temporarily renamed
Education and Career Development
Branch, before splitting into two
components: Individual Development
Brigadier A D Thompson
Branch within Army Headquarters
and Education Branch in Headquarters
Home Command.

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