One Officer Factory: The Royal Military College and Officer Education since 1955
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract: This article describes how between 1955 and 2000 the Royal Military College developed and operated a range of undergraduate and graduate degree programmes which satisfied the learning needs of the Canadian Forces. In so doing the College, actually a degree granting university with a charter from the province of Ontario, was able to meet the educational vision laid down in 1969 shortly after the three military services had been unified. More fundamentally, it shows how senior military leaders and the faculty of RMC were able to work together to provide the military profession with the intellectual skills and professional knowledge to deal with complex and often ambiguous security and defence challenges. Résumé: Cet article décrit comment, entre 1955 et 2000, le Collège militaire royal (CMR) a développé et mis en œuvre plusieurs programmes de premier cycle et d’études supérieures pour satisfaire aux besoins de formation des Forces armées canadiennes. En vertu d’une charte de la province de l’Ontario, ce collège fut autorisé à offrir des grades universitaires et put ainsi réaliser les objectifs en éducation formulés en 1969, peu de temps après l’unification des trois corps d’armée. Plus fondamentalement, ce texte montre comment les leaders militaires et les professeurs du CMR ont travaillé ensemble pour doter la profession militaire de compétences intellectuelles et de savoirs professionnels afin d’affronter les défis complexes et souvent ambigus de la sécurité et de la défense.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.031 | 0.004 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".