Alex, you're quite right - CTC's scheme is, strictly speaking, a structured modular course. However, the central point remains, which is that airline are beginning to go down the line of delegating their ab-initio recruiting and training to the large schools, and that this trend seems likely to accelerate.
That is, of course, a far cry from saying that all ab-initio recruiting will be done this way at some point in the future, but I do fear that the trend is moving against the interests of the 'self-organised' student. Exceptions can be found to any rule, of course, and for every APP or CTC student who gets a job, right now we can point to several non-integrated 'self-organised' wannabes who have succeeded. Long may it continue, but I'm beginning to think that it might not...
Before anyone gets too worried, we are talking about the medium and long term future, not next week or even next year!
Scroggs