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Donald Hutchings writes: Modern warships need modern methods. And the Royal Navy's weapons and electrical engineering school, HMS Collingwood, has demonstrated that methods of instruction can be as sophisticated as the complex equipment now in use. One hundred and fifty teaching machines are kept fully employed in the task of training 2300 officers and weapons control systems, guns, missile launchers, missiles, and sonar. Although the work is often specialized, the apprentices are given a broad‐based technical education so that they are taught to think of an engineering system rather than of its components. At HMS Collingwood the apprentice's studies take him beyond ONC, so that he can work for higher qualifications on his own either during his service or later on if he decides to leave the Navy.