LAL,
In an ideal world of course you would screen students out on directly relevant skill sets, although I would be interested in your response to the report above that the Typhoon OCU couldn't distinguish T1 and T2 grads. But the RAF is obviously not in an ideal world at this particular moment in respect of its FJ training pipeline (and much else besides!) and my point is that the T1 remains a lot better than nothing, which if there's no quick fix to these engine problems and unless sufficient overseas training slots can be secured in a hurry is all the RAF will have.