Dr. DAVIESasked the First Lord of the Admiralty what educational courses are provided at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich; the maximum number of students which can be taught at each 621W course; the number of entries for each course; the total cost of such courses for each of the last three years for which statistics are available; and if the vaccines used in the Navy are produced at this establishment?
§ Mr. AMMONThe following courses of an educational or partly educational nature are held at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich:
Number in course (1929–30 Session). Advanced course for senior engineer officers 10(estimated) Advanced course for engineer officers, 2nd year 5 Advanced course for engineer officers, 1st year 6 Advanced course for gunnery officers 4 Advanced course for torpedo officers 4 Advanced course for signal officers 4 Advanced course for constructors officers, 1st year 2 Advanced course for constructors officers, 2nd year 5 Advanced course for constructors officers, 3rd year 3 Advanced course for probationary assistant electrical engineer 3 Advanced course for school masters 12 Qualifying course for gunnery officers 11 Qualifying course for torpedo officers 4 Qualifying course for acting temporary instructor officers * Qualifying course for probationary 2nd lieutenants, Royal Marines 8 Qualifying course for candidates for corps commissions, Royal Marines * Qualifying course for acting mates (E) 4 Qualifying course for mates (General Service) 5 Course for acting sub-lieut-tenants: (First term) 77 (5 classes) (Second term) 49 (3 classes) *No course being held this session. NOTE.—Qualifyinc courses for signal and anti-submarine officers are also formed. when required.
The numbers undergoing courses in the present session are shown against each course. So far as instruction is concerned, a maximum of 15 officers could be taken at each of these courses, except the 622W acting sub-lieutenant's courses, at which a maximum of 18 could be taken in each class. The total number under instruction at any time would, however, be limited by the accommodation available at the college. In addition to the courses mentioned above, professional courses are held at the Royal Naval War College, Royal Naval Staff College and the Royal Naval Medical School, all of which are accommodated in the same group of buildings. The amounts included in the Estimates for the courses at Greenwich, exclusive of the Staff and War Colleges and the Medical School for the years 1928, 1929 and 1930, are as follow:
£ 1928 … … … … 78,500 1929 … … … … 78,130 1930 … … … … 77,900 Vaccines used in the Navy are produced at the Medical School, Greenwich, except the anti-small-pox lymph.