Let's not forget that new knowledge needs to be applied correctly and procedures for this application should be carefully considered. To my mind this is one area where the GCNS course failed completely. Learning fact after fact is not hard with a good memory. What one then does with that knowledge is another matter entirely.
NO operations course can ever replace the experience of a pilot, chief or otherwise. For an ops bod to assume the responsibility of making a decision previously referred to the CP, on the basis that said bod read about it once, could well be on the way to raising safety issues.