https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48607943
An interesting read and few points paraphrased from the article.
49% of those who entered Sandhurst in January came from fee-paying schools. The Royal Navy, which saw 64% of its officer cadets entering Dartmouth, from state schools. The Royal Air Force says 35% of its officer cadets entering Cranwell College in March had previously served in the ranks and its doesn’t monitor educational background. The last Army chief of the general staff to have been taught at a state school was in the early 1950s. Yet the very top jobs in the RAF and RN have recently been given to men educated at state schools.
There is a roughly 50/50 split of schools with a Combined Cadet Forces (CCF) 194 private schools have a CCF compared to 205 state schools. So if my maths are even close around 7% of the UK population is privately educated and thterefore 50% of the CCF is drawn from 7% of the population
The Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) is designed to give service personnel stability for their children while they move around the country or abroad. But it is officers who make the most use of it, even though they are a smaller proportion of the armed forces. Last year, 2,720 children of officers received the allowance - compared to 1,765 children of those serving in the ranks. Seems a little odd that the other ranks aren’t taking up the allowance
An interesting read and few points paraphrased from the article.
49% of those who entered Sandhurst in January came from fee-paying schools. The Royal Navy, which saw 64% of its officer cadets entering Dartmouth, from state schools. The Royal Air Force says 35% of its officer cadets entering Cranwell College in March had previously served in the ranks and its doesn’t monitor educational background. The last Army chief of the general staff to have been taught at a state school was in the early 1950s. Yet the very top jobs in the RAF and RN have recently been given to men educated at state schools.
There is a roughly 50/50 split of schools with a Combined Cadet Forces (CCF) 194 private schools have a CCF compared to 205 state schools. So if my maths are even close around 7% of the UK population is privately educated and thterefore 50% of the CCF is drawn from 7% of the population
The Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA) is designed to give service personnel stability for their children while they move around the country or abroad. But it is officers who make the most use of it, even though they are a smaller proportion of the armed forces. Last year, 2,720 children of officers received the allowance - compared to 1,765 children of those serving in the ranks. Seems a little odd that the other ranks aren’t taking up the allowance
