Doesn't sound right to me. At my Bristol brush up there were 20 people in the class with me on my Mod 2 (all gonnabe airline pilots), and about another 40 on mod 1. This happens every month, so adding all the schools together, there must be at least 100 people finishing their ATPLs each month...
The ease of which people can obtain vast loans to pay their way through training, then it smells a bit like propaganda to me.