Bit of a sideways slant:
I am recent PPL(H) but I actually started the course 6 years ago - at that time PPl(H) + Ins was still available as a route to paid flying.
I'd have liked my school to have envisoned possible futures for me (I guess we all have a sneaking CPL wannabee mode) and demonstrated costs and routes onwards and upwards from PPL with perhaps a tie in to places like BGS to get a discount on a couple of their CPL manuals to engage me further.
I would have liked some theory homework even on PPL - but I guess that is an individual taste thing.
Basically I'd have liked them to try and ring me dry of money and in return progressed me 'by force' until I yelped 'no more'. Maybe my School (which I found excellent in all other respects) were a little laid back and other schools do the above anyway.
R