Army Command & Staff College Quetta
The Command and Staff College, Quetta is a modern military institution recognised the world over. It is a reputed seat of learning for warfare and allied staff aspects with a student body of 362 officers, which include nearly 30 officers from over 23 allied nations. The Allied Officers form an important segment of the College community, adding colour and giving a cosmopolitan touch to life at the College.
The Command and Staff College is dedicated to provide the highest standards of training, education and professional excellence. The faculty commits itself to the primary goal of preparing students to shoulder higher responsibilities in a multi-dimensional environment in peace and war.
The student is made to understand and apply principles - analytically, logically, speedily and decisively. He should be able to communicate his reasoning and decisions with ease, supervise implementation and ensure execution. To achieve these goals, there are about 52 members on the faculty at any one time making an instructor to student ratio of about 1:7, which is amongst the highest in the world.
The College provides an active and eventful campus that is unparalleled among Pakistan Army training institutions. The curriculum is progressive and challenging, with a balanced injection of co-curricular and extra-curricular activities that demand total commitment from the officers and the active cooperation of their families. To ease this task, the College provides them with an enviable level of comfort, administrative support and recreational facilities. This healthy interaction and involvement helps in maintaining a highly conducive campus environment that nurtures in the officers and their families - a course espirit de corps that identifies them for the rest of their service life. Thus, the Staff College year begins on an expectant note, progresses on a fast pitch and demanding tempo, and ends on nostalgia and lasting bonds.
Educational philosophy
The Command and Staff College is dedicated to the highest standards of training, education and professional excellence. Student officers and the faculty commit themselves to the primary goal of preparing officers for multi-dimensional duties, with pre-eminence to operational training.
The curriculum is designed to develop a student officer's reasoning and decision making abilities, character, expression and team work. The students are trained to identify a problem, determine the basic issues involved, obtain necessary information for its solution and formulate a befitting response. The development of the ability to take sound and timely decisions in any given situation after considering relevant facts and applying the concerned principles, is the focal point of the educational philosophy. The curriculum also focuses on the improvement of thinking, reasoning and communication skills of the student. Particular attention is paid to the development of intellectual honesty, integrity, professional values and standards.
