Original post by T250
If you failed at a point subsequent to the selection process, during training so at college, or during validation, if you failed, are you allowed to re-apply for the trainee role from scratch going through S1/2/3 again the following year?
I was on a visit to Southampton tower the other day and they employ a number of ATCO Assistants. These are people who assist the active ATCO's in a number of ways, carrying out many tasks that an ATCO would also carry out, but they don't have a valid radar licence and aren't allowed to talk directly to pilots on the radio. I asked them about how you become an ATCO Assistant and they said that NATS generally fulfil their requirement for this role by recruiting ATCO's who have failed to validate or pass the college course, presumably because such people have already had much of the necessary training. So that's one possibility that might be open if the you fail at a later stage... otherwise I wouldn't know.
You could always try contacting HR and see what they say.