Hons Degree programmes for commercial flight training were introduced as a fudge to allow cadets to unlock up to £27,000 worth of student loans, as well as means tested bursaries. As flight training schools are commercial enterprises first and educational institutions second, UK government would never recognise a cadet enrolled on a flight training course as a 'proper' student and so no government funding was available. The workaround was to get ATOs to partner with educational institutions in order to unlock student loans. There shouldn't be any extra study involved, as an integrated flight training programme was deemed to meet degree-level criteria, meaning that as long as you passed the course then you would automatically be awarded an Hons Degree.
I do not know how the Tayside degree programme works, but that is the principal behind it.
To the OP, the most critical issue faced by ATOs currently is a lack of instructors. Pretty much every UK ATO is suffering instructor shortages currently, and flight training programmes are regularly being delayed as a result. If Tayside has a full complement of instructors then they are the exception rather than the rule at the moment, so certainly not worth ditching them just on the basis of a couple of unsubstantiated, negative posts on pprune, even if they are genuine.
That said, the most protected form of commercial flight training programmes out there at the moment are airline-mentored programmes, where you are preselected before you enter training. It doesn't give you a 100% guarantee of employment on graduation, but it is the best currently on offer, at least until the new First Officer Apprenticeship goes live. Have a look here:
https://www.instituteforapprenticesh...officer-pilot/
The issue with the new apprenticeship is that no airlines have actually signed up to it yet, which is exactly what happened last time such a scheme was announced. Jet2 was supposed to be the launch airline for the last scheme, but pulled out at the last minute. As government and the scheme's creators didn't want to lose face, it morphed into the Hons Degree programme that you see today. The new programme has one advantage over the last, in that UK airlines are now obliged to pay into a new apprenticeship fund, so they are in effect already involved, but whether any are prepared to back this up by actually running apprenticeships, only time will tell.