I am not discounting the idea of adapting the classification training as I agree, unless you have an experienced SME the subject is often ‘Death by PowerPoint’ and neither the instructor nor the cadets engage with it.
That said, similarly to the likes of martial arts (where coloured belts are used to signify development) having a progressive training syllabus that allows cadets to develop I feel is key. There is such much more that we do in this organisation that could give a cadet the opportunity to move through the classification syllabus but in a more engaging way i.e. Cyber could move away from a stand alone badge to form part of a classification badge possibly?
We are seeing that our age groups are much younger than 10+ years ago but the classification syllabus is still working on the basis that we still have a large amount of cadets staying past their 18th birthday which is just not the case.