dalek, yes, they travel 2nd class too.
We stopped IiP because we couldn't afford it. I know one money waster was Brian Burridge's dirctive for everyone to get the ECDL. Complete waste of time and money. Instead of teaching people how to write it would have been better teaching those that wanted to how to type.
Interesting to comparecivil service courses and military ones. CS ones generally last a day, employ a couple of facilitators who have probably never met before and are usually a waste of money.
RAF ones generally lsast one week or two, start on a Monday thus requiring travel on Saturday or Sundayand you usually learn something.