Training students costs an absolute fortune. Surely NATS should be open to any ways of reducing this cost?
I know of people who have been employed with NATS as cadets, only not to make the grade for one reason or another. These people have then gone on to obtain a student license outside of NATS, and go on to validate at a non-NATS unit. When they express interest tore-joining NATS (obviously now having a student license), NATS HR inform them that they are not currently recruiting externally.
Why oh why would NATS prefer to train an ab-initio from scratch, rather than employ someone who has gained a license, and validated at a unit?
Can't they just use a bit of common sense?