{"id":647,"date":"2018-02-07T10:26:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T10:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/858aircadets\/?page_id=647"},"modified":"2018-02-07T10:26:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T10:26:18","slug":"service-plus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/858aircadets.org.uk\/?page_id=647","title":{"rendered":"Training and education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pageTitle clearfix\">\n<p id=\"mainContent\"><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">Aside from all the great experiences and new skills you&#8217;ll gain as an air cadet, you can also take away real qualifications that will set you apart from the crowd when you head to university or begin your chosen career.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<article>\n<div class=\"mura-region\">\n<div class=\"mura-region-local\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/aircadets\/raf-aircadets\/assets\/Image\/Training-and-education.jpg\" alt=\"A group of Cadets with an adult leader looking at a map\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For starters there&#8217;s the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/aircadets\/what-we-do\/dofe-award\/\">Duke of Edinburgh Award<\/a>\u00a0that employers everywhere recognise as a great achievement. You can take on the challenge as part of your adventurous training, working your way up through the levels all the way to Gold &#8211; something to be really\u00a0proud\u00a0of.<\/p>\n<p>But did you know\u00a0there&#8217;s\u00a0also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/aircadets\/what-we-do\/training-and-education\/leadership-training\/\">Leadership training<\/a>, where you can really prove your worth as leader &#8211; a skill that will build your confidence and your ability to deal with different kinds of people. If you can handle it you could get to the Junior Leaders course &#8211; it&#8217;s gruelling but what you get out of it will be invaluable to you for the rest of your life..<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/aircadets\/what-we-do\/training-and-education\/btec-qualifications\/\">BTECs<\/a>\u00a0are always popular and a widely recognised qualification &#8211; more than 4,000 cadets have registered for the First Diploma in Public Services and over 6,000 have signed up for the First Diploma in Aviation Studies. There&#8217;s also the increasingly popular First Diploma in Performing Arts (Music) for budding\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.raf.mod.uk\/aircadets\/what-we-do\/music\/\">musicians<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>First Aid is another essential skill you can pick up &#8211; train in this important area and you may be awarded a certificate from St Johns Ambulance. If those skills were called upon you could make all the difference in a life or death situation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>City &amp; Guilds &#8211; cadets can also benefit from certain vocational qualifications in management, as can our volunteers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from all the great experiences and new skills you&#8217;ll gain as an air cadet,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-647","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/858aircadets.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/858aircadets.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/858aircadets.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/858aircadets.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/858aircadets.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/858aircadets.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/858aircadets.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}