Today, the Association is known as the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD), with Darcey Bussell as President. It has grown to become one of the largest and most influential dance teaching and examination boards in the World. The RAD now has over 14,000 members, and operates in 79 countries Worldwide. There are currently over 1,000 students in full-time or part-time teacher training programmes with the Academy and each year, the examination syllabus is taught to more than a quarter of a million students worldwide.