I should imagine that most of the EFT students are a long way past school age. Making them dress in Grange Hill style uniforms does not promote a more professional image. After all didn't Ziggy Greaves and Tucker Jenkins wear uniforms? Look how they turned out! Not exactly airline material were they? Then again perhaps things would have been different if they wore epaulettes; just like EFT.
Being a professional is about many things, wearing a fake airline pilot uniform complete with four bar epaulettes is not one of them; that's just naff.