Markkal who started this thread has identified all this but he has no confidence in the particular schools who are doing the wrong thing changing their ways and the authority who oversees them doing the right thing by bringing them to account.
The whole structure of EASA is a joke and has become an industry in itself. It has been beneficial for heavy transport by achieving mutual recognition for that part it is true but otherwise it has dome harm. National authorities have been weakened and are less effective, always being subject to EASA mess ups and its forever rule making to clear up its own mess. NAAs are left in no better a position to understand EASA directives/rule making any better than the average man in the street. ICAO is more than sufficient.