Further to the following:
What NATS will get is more applicants than they could ever shake a stick at, who are willing to accept that an employer is going to spend in the region of £250K on their training, not ask for a penny of it back, and give them a brilliant job which pays very well.
NATS obviously don't care about the money wasted on students as they seem to be happy to get rid of students who have passed Aerodrome but fail Area. Thats a real waste if you ask me - a year of training and around £100,000 per student. And a potentially valid AD controller
The (if you ask me) stupid reduction in pay for students really should have been brought in with anyone that gets excepted from now and not for people that have already been given dates to start on a pay scale that has been quoted to them.
At least this gives the new courses a heads up for how NATS changes student contarcts to suit them - 11 times my course had to resign their contracts.