The OTC has really been pushing the TASO scheme over the last year, I'm a student that joined the OTC as a TASO last year, alot of first year crows like me were cap badged as TASO's on joining, I have since sacked in the OTC as I prefered my TA unit, and i completed my CIC a month or so ago so am now just a Pte at my TA unit, although i am still a PO i will not be doing my mod 2 and mod 3 with OTC. The OTC's are certainly trying to push the scheme to produce more commisions into the TA, however as i was told on joining my TA unit, 'the otc teaches you how to be an officer but not how to lead soldiers' this is certainly true as your average Tom is very different to your average University student with martial pretentions.
As for OTC's i personally think they are vast waste of resources as the number of officers produced for the Regs and TA from them is small compared to how many students just do it as a drinking club for the duration of their three year degrees, also it is staggering to find how conceited and arrogant some of the Officer Cadets are, they genuinely think that they are elite infanteers, that being said the best of the OTC's are good solid soldiers who will one day be good officers in either the Regs or the TA, its just the majority of them that are arrogant cnuts. TA officers should i believe be selected by their units from the ranks of trained TA soldiers, I am a PO but with only a years expereience in the TA I am not ready and do not intend to commision for at least another year, the TA commisioning course does not replicate at all 9 months at the factory that the regs do, expereince should be gained in the ranks before even being considered for a commision in the TA.
Note, this is drawn from experience of the OTC i was a part of others may be different.