deadcut,
nah, they don't all want to be pilots. They want to wear fancy uniforms, get out of NZ or Aus sometime/occasionally and pull chicks (the guys, not sure of motivations for ladies other than love and passion, ehrm).
With all the funding/loans in NZ and now also in Australia (VET-fee help etc), you're bound to have more people who may have less determination/serious motivation and more luck securing funding more easily, thus not weeding out some of those 'cool ones' who'd go for fotballer job otherwise, had they the talent/skills.
At least you got some foreign cadets/students helping with FI jobs without joining the local job market after training.