Meanwhile in the USA (who are the world's best practice in everything aviation apparently) they are trying to legislate minimum of 1500 hours total for an FO in RPT and effectively killing zero to hero programs, which are coming under some scrutiny in the USA.
There is no comparison between a cadet program and the airforce so lets just drop that idea. The Air Force only recruit a handful of people a year so are able to have a very very high standard.