A FORMER Exeter College student is helping to break the glass ceiling in the aviation industry, having secured a  landmark  £25,000 scholarship with pilot training provider L3 Airline Academy.

Miryam Ley (18), from Crediton, is set to follow her father’s footsteps  on  to the flight deck  having been selected as one of only 10 successful applicants across Europe for the L3 Pilot Pathways Female Scholarship; a  new  scheme designed to help more women in to training to become a pilot.

The scholarship application  process involved  Miryam  undergoing stringent aptitude examinations as well as group interviews and one-on-one discussions on the aviation industry and her ambitions beyond the pilot training course.

She  is  one of only 10 women across Europe to be awarded the scholarship, which aims to address the historically low number of female pilots working in the industry; with women making up around just six per cent of commercial pilots in the industry.

Read more in tomorrow’s paper.