>> NATS no longer require A level qualifications. They removed that requirement about 12 months ago iirc.
And quite right too. As has been mentioned many times before, it is not academic credentials which determines the quality of a candidate, but rather their aptitude for the job (what ever NATS considers that to be).
My earlier response was simply in reponse to WhatMeanPullUp's comment on the the majority of failures being university graduates. That may well have been the case, but I imagine that if you had 60 A-Level candidates on a course and 60 degree students on another course - the fail rate would likely be the same.
It doesn't matter what your background is.... success simply comes down to personal achievement and setting yourself high goals. Something I assume the NATS occupational personality questionnaires at stage 1 are supposed to look for?????