1. Managing Education and Individual Training
Liene Liepina
Head of Military Education and Science Division
Personnel Development Department
Ministry of Defence, Latvia
Tirana, Albania

2. Education & Individual Training
Individual E&T
Education
Individual Training
Basic Training
Career Courses
Qualification Courses

3. Training Requirements
Political guidance
Lessons learned, performance gaps
Standards & STANAGs
National Classification of Occupations
(Group «0» - Armed Forces, classification based on ranks), ISCO standard
Classification of Military Occupations
(classification based on profession)
Job descriptions
(experience, education, career and qualification courses
required/desirable)

4. «Universal soldier» vs. professional
Shift towards professionalism, but the «equilibrium point» has to be found
Challenges
agile environment, need for proactive changes in structure;
pressure to develop capabilities rapidly;
increase in presonnel;
number of soldiers (5000);
rotation (officers have to be transferred to new positions every 5 years);
resources invested in E&IT

5. Current Projects E&IT system classification of Military Occupations
developing the career pathways for every profession/discipline (framework of qualifications)
developing standard job descriptions
Education
reviewing cadets education programmes (new generation of warfare vs. requirements for officers)
exploring new opportunities for cadets’ mobility (ERASMUS)
specialization of cadets (eg. universal officer vs. fire support officer)
Individual Training
J-7 integrated in J-1
reviewing individual training activities
examining individual training opportunities abroad, were we can’t train nationally
conducting individual training for PfP nations

6. E&IT Challenges
Development of effective education and individual training quality control system
Mobility and specialization of cadets
E&IT in context of civilian education system
Finding the training opportunities, where national E&IT capabilities are limited
Implementation of E-learning

7. Thank you for your attention!