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51cadets were, if not Under Officers, designated Senior Flight Cadets and all were involved in supervising the junior entries as part of their transition to Junior Officer status. Flying Wing: For pilots 40 hours in Chipmunks in Term 2 (air experience flying for all other branches); 170 hours in Jet Provosts in Terms 4 & 5; for navigators 174 hours of basic navigation training in Valettas. Wings or %u2018brevets%u2019 were awarded just prior to the cadets passing-out from Cranwell.Tutorial Wing: A (General) Stream %u2013 Sciences and Arts subjects at A Level standard. B (Science Specialist Stream) %u2013 Associate Fellowship of the RAeS. C (Degree Stream) %u2013 the University of London General BA Degree. Cranwell was now, for the General Duties (Flying) Branch cadets, in effect, just one of the four Jet Provost Basic Flying Training Schools and one of two Air Navigation Schools. No 83 Entry (the first of the two Entries in 1963) graduated 45 aircrew; one (a pilot) gained his RAeS Associate Fellowship and four (two pilots and two navigators) gained their BAs. Thus for the vast majority of the cadets the academic syllabus was designed to broaden rather than deepen their knowledge. Despite the introduction of the Sixth-Form Scholarship, aimed at boys in the Public and Direct Grant Sectors of secondary education, the number of boys coming from Headmasters%u2019 Conference Schools (the top 10% of the fee-paying Grammar Schools) was steadily dropping. The College Journal regularly records visits by groups of Headmasters as the College sought to %u2018sell%u2019 itself to these influential people. One factor in the decreasing interest in the RAF as a career was the 1957 Sandys%u2019 White Paper on Defence which foresaw the replacement of long-range bombers and air defence fighters with missiles. But the other, more enduring, one was the expansion of university education. In 1963 the Robbins Report on Higher Education stated that:11%u2018. . . the number of boys and girls obtaining the minimum university entrance qualification has grown much faster than the number of university places.%u2019 The report proposed an 80% increase in the number of places in higher education within 10 years. This was from 5% of the secondary