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52level output to 9%, and with a target of 18% in 1980. The Report also recommended the creation of the Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) to allow the Technical Colleges to run degreeawarding courses. The military technical colleges were not considered and service officer training in general was lumped in with the Agricultural Colleges! In 1964 the Defence Council set up the Melville Committee to examine the implications for Defence of the Robbins Report. The RAF%u2019s Director General of Training set up a Working Party to formulate the RAF%u2019s input to the Melville Committee. The Working Party proposed that eventually a Batchelor Degree would be the entry requirement for all General List (ie career) officers and that this could be gained either at university or at Cranwell. The Air Force Board Standing Committee%u2019s (AFBSC) preferred option was to take graduate entrants with Cranwell providing professional training. Also in 1964 a further review of the Cranwell course recommended a reduction in length from 3 to 2%u00bd years %u2013 the so called %u2018Holder Syllabus%u2019 %u2013 reflecting the removal of Advanced Flying Training from the course. In 1965 the Melville Committee agreed with the AFBSC but also suggested that the General Duties (Flying) Branch course at Cranwell could be CNAA accredited. However, the course met neither the quantity or quality requirements, in terms of academic content, and in 1966 it was accepted that CNAA accreditation was unachievable. Finally, in 1968 the AFBSC decided that the RAF College was to deliver officer training to Graduate Entrants from the University Cadetship Scheme only, to provide Basic Flying Training for Cranwell commissioned student pilots and professional training for engineering officers. It did not, however, decide to make a Batchelor Degree the minimum academic qualification for a Permanent Commission.12 No 98 Entry was the last %u2018full%u2019 Flight Cadet course. There was then only one, September, Entry in each of 1968, %u201869 and %u201870. Nearly half of 99 Entry went to university after one year at Cranwell, as the AFBSC had intended, and a few of 100 and 101 Entries also did so, although these were much smaller courses than previously. No 101 Entry passed-out on 16 March 1973 and included 26 pilots. So, how successful was the Flight Cadet System in providing the RAF%u2019s senior leadership? During WW II the influence was minimal because the former flight cadets were too few in number and too