I personally suspect this is not an "Airline academy" so much as a branded retail exercise - another money making subsidiary business trading off the reputation of the parent company. These Big-Brand sausage factories will turn out big-brand sausages.
Then again, I am old and cynical.
I have been told that Qlink have gone to some effort to improve the product from FTA and nurture the best candidates to ensure good skills on graduation. Maybe I will be proven wrong.