Hello.
I have just finished training at bournemouth and the school i was at was in partnership with McAlpine. The training that they do is orientated towards getting young chaps like you up to scratch for RH seat jobs. From what i gather (but don't take my word for it) a lot of the training is in a multi (Beech Duchess) and i very much geared towards 2 crew operations. The course seems to be quite a different arrangement from the norm (PPL, CPL, IR, MCC etc) as are the financial arrangements. However, the sim is good, the A/C are great (I did my CPL and IR in them) and the instructers are good. Its run by a chap called Anthony Mollison, a very helpful bloke- well worth speaking to him.
I hope this helps- as i say i was at the "sister-school" PAT, who are excellent, but we shared aircraft and sims etc. Met plenty of the MCAlpine students who said they were very happy.
Oh yes, I think you still do the ab initio in Middle Earth sorry, New Zealand.