Protect them and see through the marketing. People in aviation can look after themselves. Not really bothered about them. Its the normal familys who don't have a clue about aviation who only want the best for there child and are putting the entire familys capital on the line. Potentially stopping a sibling from further education due to servicing the pilots debt to stop the family house being lost. Based on research which is based on a projected sales report of boeing which the training industry is hang its hat and its pensions on.
I have no doudt and know the mods use loans to complete there training but they are in a different scale, its more in the scale of deposite for a house instead of buying the house.
But you still haven't dealt with the fact you have zero clue what my market is like or for that matter how much movement there is. I see and hear the movement and have to train them coming online.
We also now have the sales reps from the big three coming round to make exclusive deals to only get the "very best of the product" which they have personally selected. In days past they wouldn't even look at you or even acknowledge the excistance of "things" with propellers. Now they want your FO jobs.
The jobs that can be got outside cadetships are training independent.
I wouldn't entirely agree with your statement, but accepting it in essence it is why I advise that people do a lot of research, and make very considered choices.
Which is why my advice is if your not on a cadetship don't pay the premium price and self finance. You are in exactly the same situation as a mod once your booted out the door with blue licences in hand. In fact slightly worse off as most CP's in my market are mod trained.
There is of course reasons outside that to do with people who can't learn outside a managed enviroment and not having the self control and disapline to self study. For them the premium is worth it because otherwise they would never complete.