Lifelong Learning

Boosting your career:

Your career path depends on various things. Your previous qualifications and experience, strengths, aims and our needs will all help determine the path you follow. The qualifications, diplomas and awards you earn will be available at minimum or no cost to you and you can even continue your studies while you’re on deployment. We support people with specific educational needs, and you’ll also have access to Europe’s largest online learning programme through the Defence Learning Portal.

Help with the costs:

All Royal Marine Commandos benefit from two educational allowances. The Standard Learning Credit gives you £175 a year to put towards GCSEs, language training, computing qualifications or any other courses you might need to go on. Under the Enhanced Learning Credit Scheme, you could receive up to £6000 for higher-level educational and vocational courses, which you can use for training for up to 10 years after you leave the Royal Marines.

Development as a Royal Marines Commando:

All Royal Marine Commandos go through a key-skills programme, which will earn you a Public Services Apprenticeship. When you’re chosen for a command course, you can find all the reference material you need in our library.

Development as a Royal Marines Officer:

University short courses in subjects such as management, politics and international relations are available free of charge. During your training, you can use our library to keep up with current affairs and any other reading you need to do.