Defence Higher Education Trainer (International)

The DHET (I) course is designed for international Directing Staff (DS) and will train you to facilitate adult learning in the military Higher Education and Further Education environments.

The course focuses primarily on the delivery of Professional Military Education (PME) to a course, class or syndicate in command and staff colleges. The course offers practical guidance on adult teaching techniques including facilitation, the management of syndicate room discussions, engaging adult learners, the planning and designing of learning activities and managing student welfare. The course will give you the opportunity to apply the material covered in a teaching context.

Please Note: All our courses will be open for application 6 months prior to the course start date and will appear in the 'Planed Dates' box when we are accepting applications. Once DCTS reaches application capacity for a singular course iteration, these course dates will be removed from the 'Planned Dates' box. In the table below you can see all course iterations for the full training year and when they will become open for application. For further information please refer to the DCTS DIN; 2025DIN07-019-Defence Centre for Training Support (DCTS) course information and instruction, which can be found on MODnet.

What you will learn

To maximise your time in the UK, the 5- day international course is longer than the standard 3.5-day DHET course for UK DS. As such it is designed to encompass some of the CPD workshops and seminars DS complete throughout their time at the Defence Academy. This includes serials on coaching, facilitation and curriculum design in Higher Education. It also focuses on the increased use of reflective practice to support training and the use of training aides to scaffold learning.

The DHET(I) course is adapted using shorter working days to address the cognitive strain of continually translating lessons into a first language or working through an interpreter.

How this course will help your career

The course is aimed at military personnel teaching in Defence Colleges worldwide. Usually, this will be ranks ranging between NATO OF3 (Lt Cdr/Maj/Sqn Ldr) and OF4 (Cdr/Lt Col/Wg Cdr) but can include ranks above and below that if you are delivering training or education to a course, class or syndicate.

Critically, it is for course directing staff rather than College senior managers and senior commanders.