Degree a requirement.
The Maths & Physics requirements have been around for years.
However, it was only a matter of time before a degree became a requirement. It's happened overseas. In the US airlines and airforce it's a requirement, you will find most airline cadet schemes require cadets to have a tertiary education so why shouldn't it happen here?
Look upon it as a culling process. Young pilots joining will be in the right seat for years before obtaining a command, so thousands of hours of SINGLE pilot is no longer necessary.
Further it narrows down the recruiting process, with the gross oversupply of pilots we have, airlines could make it a basic requirement and will not have any trouble recruiting pilots of the right calibre. The days of the Year10 airline pilot are over.