New Zealand Defence College

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41°08′32″S 175°02′09″E / 41.1423°S 175.0358°E / -41.1423; 175.0358AffiliationsMassey UniversityWebsitewww.nzdf.mil.nz

The New Zealand Command and Staff College (NZCSC) is the premier educational institute for the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) and is located at Trentham Military Camp, Upper Hutt (near Wellington). The New Zealand Command and Staff College provides professional military education to New Zealand Defence Force officers which prepares officers for command and staff appointments. The college was established at Whenuapai, near Auckland, in 1950, as a school for junior officers of the RNZAF. In 2004, the college moved to its present location in Trentham Military Camp, Upper Hutt near Wellington, New Zealand. Courses follow a modular approach that incorporate the following core subjects: Communication Skills, Operational Studies, Strategic Studies, International Relations, Command, Leadership and Management. Due to the college's close association with Massey University, it is able to offer to successful graduates of the Advanced Command and Staff Course (Joint) the delivery, by Massey University's Centre for Defence and Security Studies, of 150 credits of the 180 credits required for gaining a Masters in International Security.^[1]

References

Citations

^ "NZDF - Command and Staff College". www.nzdf.mil.nz. Archived from the original on 2013-02-06.

Sources

Simons, Murray (2004). Professional Military Learning: The next generation of PME in the New Zealand Defence Force. Canberra: Air Power Development Centre.
Rolfe, James (1999). The Armed Forces of New Zealand. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86448-800-X.
Rolfe, James (2007). Cutting their cloth: New Zealand's defence strategy. Canberra: Australian Strategic Policy Institute. ISBN 978-1-921302-10-7.
Simons, Murray (2010). Holistic Professional Military Development: Growing strategic artists (PDF). Palmerston North: Massey University.

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Vocational education in New Zealand

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Subsidiaries	Ara Institute of Canterbury Eastern Institute of Technology Manukau Institute of Technology Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology NorthTec Otago Polytechnic Southern Institute of Technology Tai Poutini Polytechnic The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology Unitec Institute of Technology Universal College of Learning Waikato Institute of Technology Wellington Institute of Technology Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki Whitireia New Zealand
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