90 minutes that senior NCOs get to complete a new escape room in the Midlands.
The facility – at Gamecock Barracks in Bramcote – was created in an old storeroom by staff at 20 Army Education Centre Group as part of army leadership and development programme (ALDP) training for newly promoted sergeants. And the first participants were due through the door as Soldier went to press.
The problem-solving game features 14 different tasks and culminates in a planning exercise.
“This is backed up by research as an effective way of getting people to learn more quickly than just seven days on a course,” said Capt Luke Heppenstall (AGC (ETS)). “We might have a serious and important job, but ultimately we’re all big children in the army”.
