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Reference your comment..'the output of IOT is a reflection of the society we live in'. Given that the RAF is very small these days, and getting smaller by the minute, presumably the number of IOT students required is also small and shrinking. Can we not find enough young men and women, given the numbers we need, with the right sort of attitude, even if they are not a reflection of the majority of society.
I have no desire to be 'classist', or to fill the RAF with 'hooray-henry's', but children educated in private schools often have the sort of ethos the services are looking for, team spirit, loyalty, confidence, a willingness to muck in, etc. These are not all upper class knobs! Many middle class families in Britain these days make sacrifices to have their children educated privately, and several of my RAF friends have their kids at boarding school courtesy of BSA!
But maybe kids educated privately these days have higher aspirations than to join the armed services!!