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As I'm sitting here studying for my Financial Accounting exam, I begin to wonder, why do CF Pilots or any other CF officers need degrees? How would my degree in Commerce and Finance or someone else's degree in History, Philosophy or Math help them in their respective jobs (excluding engineers). And now, many squadrons are still short of pilots while the recruiting centres are forced to tell applicants with 2000hrs and with an Aviation Diploma to go and get a degree before they can even apply. How would having a degree make them better pilots? I understand that getting a degree shows that you can handle all of the information that a pilot would be bombarded with at Moose Jaw, but aren't there any other indicators to show that the potential CF pilot can handle the high information load. CCEP pilots were successful in getting their wings, and they didn't have their degrees, so why change the policy now?