Degree requirement for female cadets
Dukes asked why female entrants had to hold degrees when male entrants did not. Power said the qualification was used to help shortlist the first female officers, who could join units after two years rather than attend university.
Can the Minister indicate why, in the case of female entrants, it was judged necessary to make it a condition that they were university graduates when this is not the case in relation to male entrants?
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These were the first female officers recruited and I suppose it would have helped to short-list them. In the normal course of events, after completing two years in a military college, a male cadet would attend university. In the case of females, it was possible to put them straight into their units when their two years were completed.