It would appear so. Recently spoke to a mate who is a current IOT Flt Cdr - apparently it is virtually impossible to chop a stude nowadays, unless you have a paper trail a mile long documenting all of their shortcomings in detail!
It seems now that studes do not have to prove their worth to the RAF; Instead, Flt Cdrs have to prove that they're NOT worth having! I suspect that heinous, crippling piece of legislation, the Human Rights Act, has something to do with this. Or maybe it's just politics - I always thought having selection and training under the same roof would prove to be disastrous........