Royal Naval College Greenwich Centenary 1873 - 1973
The Present Task
The City University
Degree
In September 1972 a new scheme began at the City University, to
allow selected Acting Sub-Lieutenants of the Seaman and Supply and Secretariat
specialisation, and 2nd Lieutenants, Royal Marines, to read for a 3 year BSc
degree in Systems and Management. The degree parallels the Manadon degree for
Engineer Officers. Whereas all Engineer Officers are required to qualify
professionally as engineers, for which they need an engineering degree, other
officers of the General List and officers of the Royal Marines take this degree
if they wish to do so and if their A levels qualify them. The degree is a
broad-based course of interdisciplinary studies. It is intended as background
education for future managers and covers many of the subjects touched on in the
various Staff Courses. Thus it forms a natural precursor at undergraduate level
for the more specifically Service-oriented Staff Courses.
Through these
and other schemes the Navy aims towards an increasingly graduate officer corps.
Indeed some 75% of the total officer entry in the current financial year is or
hopes to graduate.
The students go up to the University after two years
in the Navy and some of them elect to live in the College at Greenwich. The
average number of Service students each year is expected to be about 15-20 of a
total class of some 40. Greenwich played a large part in the design of the
course and provides some of the teaching - in Systems Analysis and Operations
Research, in Systems Modelling and Simulation, in sections of the Foundations
and Applications of Science Syllabus and in sections of the International
Relations syllabus.
Chief Naval Judge Advocate
The Office of
Chief Naval Judge Advocate evolved from that of Deputy Judge Advocate of the
Fleet which was first introduced in 1697. In 1935 the DJAF moved from
Portsmouth to the College and has remained here ever since.
The CNJA is
a Captain of the Supply and Secretariat Specialisation who is a Barrister. His
motto is 'Sine justitia haud discipline (Without justice there can be no
discipline) and his wide responsibilities include advising other naval
authorities on legal problems, officiating as Judge Advocate at the more
difficult courts martial and maintaining a close liaison with Naval Law Branch
and the Judge Advocate of the Fleet on disciplinary and legal matters. He also
has under his supervision six officers of the Supply and Secretariat
specialisation who are studying for the Bar examinations.
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