1.24 The College has a limited say in where its students are posted at the end of their course. Determining postings is the responsibility of the single Services. The College does, though, produce an end-of-course report for each graduate which gives a steer to the single Services on the types of post for which the graduate would be suitable. The Army in particular draws significantly on the views of the College. Despite this, when deciding such postings, the Services also have regard to a number of other factors such as the broader requirements of an officer's career.
1.25 The College's monitoring of its graduates' postings is currently limited. While it does maintain a record of the first postings of its Advanced course graduates, thereafter it receives no regular information on their subsequent postings. Its monitoring reveals, for example, that on first posting about a fifth of the Royal Air Force's Advanced course graduates are going into joint posts, with a third going into command posts. Increasingly single Service posts are operating in a joint environment. Therefore the number of Advanced course graduates occupying posts in such an environment is expected to increase. In addition, in the future a growing number of posts in the Services are being earmarked for graduates given the joint nature of the duties that these posts will entail.