Beags
By accident I thought that the situation we found ourselves in could actually have been the basis of a good scheme, if thoughtfully implemented..
Succesful candidates through OASC go to Cranwell post "A" levels for a year's Initial Officer Training before commissioning and with a little bit of elementary specialisation ( e,g, some EFT as appropriate)
This would wash out some candidates before University cost to the Service, as well as deterring some who basically were looking for a well funded degree,,
On return from University, specialisation training could begin almost immediately, without having to then incur the basic IOT time, costs and losses of those who had already been paid well to study and then (sometimes intentionally) failed..
We , of course, went through IOT twice as a consequence of bridging schemes.
. " Put it down to experience!" as we were told..
Yeah,sure.,