Total rubbish. The article is just another advertisement for universities. Until the degree is a minimum requirement the whole 3 years is a waste of cash and time.

The number of extraordinary diatribes against degrees is perhaps is an argument for them. A bit more open mindedness please.

Oh FFS!!! The RAAF have been doing this since Pontius was a pilot. Guys got a degree at the RAAF Academy at Point Cook in the old days, now at ADFA. They then went on to pilots course.
I have instructed both ADFA and direct entry types, and there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that those with degrees performed better than those without, and vice versa. Additionally there is no evidence to suggest that pilot graduates with degrees do better out in the squadrons than those without, and vice versa.
There are good guys and plonkers - regardless of whether or not they have a couple of letters after their name!!

While we're going around in circles discussing the merits of uni grads as pilots, how about I put the following out there:

Pilots who learn to fly in Cessnas are better aviators in the long run.

CSD, while in the recruitment pipleine I was told more ADFA guys finished pilot training without getting scrubbed than DE guys. Maybe that claim is like the Unis saying it will look good to the airlines?

More ADFA guys get through pilot training then DE coz they put through more ADFA guys!!
Wouldn't believe too much from DFR these days. They lost a lot of credibility when the function was "out-sourced".

Haven't got round to reading the latest issue, not like the old "Crash Comic". They got read as soon as they arrived cover to cover in the one sitting.
Are the promised follow up articles appearing.

Frothy