 Recruits to the fast stream self-selected, with the universities of Oxford and Cambridge still producing a large majority of successful English candidates, since the system continued to favour the tutorial system at Oxbridge while to an extent the Scottish Ancient universities educated a good proportion of recruits from north of the border.The younger mandarins found excuses to avoid managerial jobs in favour of the more prestigious postings.The generalists remained on top, and the specialists on tap.